Selenium IDE no longer compatible with Firefox 18?

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I've been using the Selenium IDE for a while now in Firefox, but lately Firefox has 'upgraded' itself to V18 - and now I can't find the IDE anywhere in the menu system. I tried installing the Selenium IDE Button which should show up on the toolbar but that is conspicuous by its absence too.

I know I have selenium installed on this machine because my existing tests work (exported to C# and using MSTest), but I can no longer conveniently create new ones using the IDE as a recorder, which is a drag.

Has the latest Firefox broken Selenium IDE?

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Well what does it say in the Addons list, does it say it's disabled? - Arran
I see my FF is now 19 (and no IDE as well (obviously), it is showing as enabled. I use to rely on Selenium a few years ago, time to find an alternative I suppose. - Tom Stickel

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I've experienced the same thing when trying to run Selenium tests in Java with the WebDriver, so I had to downgrade Firefox to an older version.

Based on their release note I guess the IDE would only support up to version 17 as of now: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SeIDEReleaseNotes

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I have Selenium IDE working in FF 19 !

  1. I did not see the IDE button in FF 19 to launch it, even though it was indeed enabled (perhaps it was there and I did not notice it)
  2. I downloaded and installed FF 17 (to another directory on disk) and then I happen to see it under FireFox--> Web Developer --> Selenium IDE ...

  3. I closed the FF 17 and opened FF 19 , and it was there as well, not sure if it was there all along or not.

    To launch it , just do  Ctrl + Alt + S  as this shortcut works in FF 19 too.

update: FF 19.0.2 is working as well. Just in case, I did also grab the:

"Download version under development unreleased" http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
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I've noticed that the icon appears when the toolbar is set to 'icons and text' or when the 'small icons' box is ticked, but the icon is blank when 'icons only' is selected and 'small icons' is not.

This is firefox 24.0 and selenium 2.4.0, on Windows 7, but I suspect it happens for most people.

Here's the issue in the Selenium support database: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5712