I just saw that Opera will stop using Presto, and switches to WebKit, so will DragonFly still exists, or this will be replaced by Chrome Inspector?
And what about Extensions too!
Yes, Opera Dragonfly will still exist. The current beta of Opera 15 includes Web Inspector, however, Opera are porting Opera Dragonfly to Blink. It will be included when ready.
Note: I was formally the Product Manager of Opera Dragonfly, before switching companies.
Opera Extensions use a different format for the Blink based Opera. It uses the subset of the Chrome extension model. There is a tool to convert the existing extensions, and documentation: http://dev.opera.com/extension-docs/
There will be no Dragonfly in Opera with WebKit (Blink):
https://twitter.com/runeh/status/301616059729969152
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I'm using firebreath to build a plugin that downloads an application and runs it (something very simple). I know that some browsers are dropping npapi support, but I need to run this plugin just in old versions of browsers (e.g. IE 6, Firefox 38, Chrome 31). I'd like to know if there are any tools that could help testing the plugin's in a variety of environments (e.g. Firefox on Linux,windows, Safari on OSX). So far, what I'm doing, is setting up each environment (windows, linux, Mac) and building/installing the plugins manually. I think cross browser testing tools that I've found on internet won't help, because they don't allow plugin install.
I couldn't find anything on my research, so thanks in advance
Any browser automation tool capable of instrumenting pages on all of those platforms can test NPAPI, since it runs in a browser...
so, Selenium, for example.
I would like to run my Selenium WebDriver tests on Opera, but when I had a look at the Opera driver at Selenium HQ and GitHub page, it says:
Opera Driver requires Opera 12.x and older versions
Note that OperaDriver is only compatible with Presto-based Operas up until 12.16. Blink-based Operas (15 and onwards) are not supported.
Opera is now up to version 22.0, so far beyond the maximum supported version of 12. So, my questions are: -
If there is no Opera driver for Selenium, then how does one automate Opera tests?
It seems strange to stop at version 12, even taking the underlying technology change into account. Is Opera support waning or is it that Selenium WebDriver is no longer the best tool?
Opera has just released an early beta of WebDriver for their Blink based browsers. See https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver
To quote from the link provided:
OperaChromiumDriver can be used without extra setup on Chromium-based versions of Opera starting from version 26.
For driving Presto-based Opera browsers, refer to the OperaPrestoDriver project.
Although versions earlier than 26 aren't officially supported, the OperaChromiumDriver v. 0.1.0 works with Opera 25. On Windows using the 'binary' option in 'operaOptions' may be needed.
Download OperaDriver from here and write the following code for java:
System.setProperty("webdriver.opera.driver", "D:/Ripon/operadriver_win64/operadriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new OperaDriver();
driver.get("https://duckduckgo.com/");
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There are 2 types of Opera - Java Based and Chrominium based.
The provided links are for Java based Opera.
https://github.com/operasoftware/operadriver#desktop
There is no official support for latest Opera versions.
Using either 20.0.1387.82 or 22.0.1457.0 (developer)
When I right-click and select Inspect Element, I get a vanilla Developer Tools dialogue:
not the one always pictured:
It looks identical to Chrome's debugger (though I've uninstalled Chrome), most notably absent, the icons on top row and the remote debug facility.
Anyone know how I can get Dragonfly working on my machine?
Opera ditched their Presto rendering engine and built a new browser (also called Opera) around Blink (Google's fork of Webkit). It doesn't support Dragonfly any more.
There are plans to port it to the new browser.
Phantomjs is webkit based. That means of the major browsers it's really only emulating Chrome, right? Does it provide a mechanism (or is there a way to force it) to provide sufficient test coverage for other browsers, aside from wrapping it in Selenium?
No. Current PhantomJS is a version of WebKit that is roughly equivalent to Chrome 13 or Safari 5.1, but it is neither of those browsers. (Chrome and Safari behave differently too.) (BTW, PhantomJS 2.0 is hopefully going to have the webkit separately linkable, so you can use different versions.)
If you move to using CasperJS, then your same script can (usually) run with each of PhantomJS and SlimerJS, which will give you test coverage for both WebKit and Gecko (Firefox). SlimerJS also allows you to directly use a local installation of Firefox instead of the supplied Gecko engine, if you wanted to test against different Firefox versions.
I want to use the Dragonfly debugger for the Opera browser. I'm not sure what I did wrong. I downloaded the opera browser, but when I click inspect element, I just get the firebug debugger. And I'm not just confusing one for the other, because I've used Dragonfly on another machine before. Do I have to download another extension? I'm using a Max OS X 10.7.5. Thanks in advance.
Opera cannot communicate with the native Firebug (from Firefox), so it sounds like you've downloaded Opera, installed the Firebug Lite extension, and are starting this extension (via the button it installs) instead of Opera's built-in Dragonfly (which you start via right-click and "Inspect element", or by using Ctrl+Shift+I or the Mac equivalent). See this answer for more details.