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I saw this question at watir-general.

Short story is, there is no simple solution at the moment. I am just porting my tests from Watir to Firewatir and I have noticed two major differences:

1. Firewatir does not see page text the same way as Watir does:
   • Watir would see “logged in as name”.
   • Firewatir would see “logged in as\n\nname”.
2. Firefox sees relative urls in links, while Internet Explorer sees apsolute paths:
   • Watir would see “page.htm”.
   • Firewatir would see “domain.com/page.htm”.

I created a separate branch of my tests for Firewatir, until I see what should be changed in original tests to make them compatible with both Watir and Firewatir. If I can not make them work at both, I do not think that maintaining two branches will be much work.

If you are using id’s for identifying page elements, I think most of your test should work.

I am updating Watir Tutorial for a while now. It is still not done. At the moment, I am at the Pop Ups page. I have gathered data from Jonathan Kohl’s excellent user guide, Paul Rogers’ excellent pop ups article and Watir FAQ. I will continue to do that, but I need help.

At the moment I have found solutions for 4 types of pop ups: new browser windows, file uploads, JavaScript pop ups and security alerts. 4 types are not covered yet: modal dialogs, modeless dialog, basic authentication and file downloads.

Since pop ups are source of problems for lots of Watir users, I would really appreciate any help. If you have working code, ideas or just a little time to review what I have done, please do it. Tutorial is just a bunch of wiki pages that anybody can edit and comment. If you need help with wiki, please let me know.