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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>FaQ - SlimerJS</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta name="description" content="Frequently Asked Questions about SlimerJS"> <meta name="author" content="Laurent Jouanneau"> <link href="assets/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/css/docs.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/js/google-code-prettify/prettify.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-144-precomposed.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-114-precomposed.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-72-precomposed.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-57-precomposed.png"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/ico/favicon.png"> </head> <body data-spy="scroll" data-target=".bs-docs-sidebar"> <div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top"> <div class="navbar-inner"> <div class="container"> <button type="button" class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <a class="brand" href="index.html"><span>Slimer</span>JS</a> <div class="nav-collapse collapse"> <ul class="nav"> <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="features.html">Features</a></li> <li><a href="download.html">Download</a></li> <li><a href="http://docs.slimerjs.org">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="http://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs">Source Code</a></li> <li class="active"><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="community.html">Community</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <header class="jumbotron subhead" id="overview"> <div class="container"> <div class="logo"> <img class="" src="assets/img/glouton-boyEntete100.png"/> </div> <h1>FAQ</h1> <p class="lead">Or Frequently Asked Questions...</p> </div> </header> <div class="container"> <div class="row-fluid">  <div class="span9"> <section id="contents">  <p>General FAQ. For the technical FAQ, <a href="http://docs.slimerjs.org/current/faq.html">see the manual</a>.</p> <dl id="faq"> <dt id="why-not-headless">Why is it not natively headless?</dt> <dd>You see windows during the execution of your script? It's normal. Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, cannot render web content without a graphical window.<br /> You can launch <span class="slm">SlimerJS</span> with xvfb if you are under linux or MacOSx, to have a headless <span class="slm">SlimerJS</span>.<br/> <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues/80">There is a hope</a> for future release of SlimerJS, with latest improvements made in Gecko. </dd> <dt id="gecko">What is Gecko?</dt> <dd>Gecko is the core engine of Firefox.</dd> <dt id="firefox-compatibility">Which version of Firefox is SlimerJS compatible with?</dt> <dd>It runs with Firefox 46 and some older versions.<br>Officially, SlimerJS is only compatible with stable versions of Firefox. </dd> <dt id="firefox-unstable">Can SlimerJS be executed with unstable version of Firefox?</dt> <dd>Yes, if you make some changes. This is explained <a href="http://docs.slimerjs.org/current/installation.html#using-unstable-version-or-very-old-versions-of-firefox-xulrunner">in the installation manual</a>.</dd> <dt id="standalone-version">I don't find anymore the "Standalone" edition like for SlimerJS 0.9-. Where is it?</dt> <dd>There are no more "standalone" edition, since Mozilla has ceased to build and maintain XulRunner? There is only the "lightweight" edition.</dd> <dt id="launch-casperjs">Can CasperJS be launched with <span class="slm">SlimerJS</span>?</dt> <dd>Yes, since SlimerJS 0.8, and with CasperJS 1.1beta1 or higher. Just launch CasperJS as usual by adding <code>--engine=slimerjs</code> on the command line. </dd> <dt id="why-slimerjs-name">Why is it called "SlimerJs"?</dt> <dd>Slimer is the name of a ghost in the movie "GhostBusters". As you may know, the Firefox source code uses some references from this movie, and since PhantomJS, CasperJs and other related tools, is a matter of ghosts... ;-)</dd> <dt>I found some English errors on the web site or in the documentation</dt> <dd>Our apologies for that. English is not the mother tongue of the main author. And he didn't work enough at school in English class :). However, he will be very happy to receive your help to fix English errors. See below how to contribute :-) </dd> <dt id="how-to-contribute">How can I contribute?</dt> <dd> You can contribute in many ways: <ul> <li>Report bugs or ideas of improvements into <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues">"issues" on github</a></li> <li>Improve the code by providing patches. <span class="slm">SlimerJS</span> is entirely in Javascript!! <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">See instructions to contribute</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/tree/master/docs">Document the API</a>. The documentation is stored in the github repository.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/tree/master/website">Improve the web site</a>. The web site is also stored in the github repository.</li> <li>Other ideas? Discuss with us on the IRC channel or in the mailing list (<a href="community.html">see the community page</a>).</li> </ul> </dd> <dt id="nightlies">Is there a build of SlimerJS containing the latest improvements?</dt> <dd>Yes, each time a bug fix or an improvement is made <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs">in the repository of SlimerJS</a>, a build is made. This is we call "nightly build". Since these are development versions don't use them in production.<br> Download the archive <a href="http://download.slimerjs.org/nightlies/latest-slimerjs-stable/">from the stable branch</a> (which contains only latest bug fixes) or <a href="http://download.slimerjs.org/nightlies/latest-slimerjs-master/">from the master branch</a> (which contains latest improvements for the future major release). You can view the documentation from the master branch <a href="http://docs.slimerjs.org/nightly/">online here</a>. </dd> <dt>Why are there no tests on the WebServer object in the source code?</dt> <dd>This module is based on the <a href="http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/test/httpserver/">httpd component</a> of Mozilla used for their own unit tests, and that is already <a href="http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/test/httpserver/test/">heavily tested</a></dd> <dt>Why are there no tests on the FileSystem object in the source code?</dt> <dd>This module is based on the <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/addon-sdk/blob/master/lib/sdk/io/file.js">file module provided in the Mozilla Addons SDK</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/addon-sdk/blob/master/test/test-file.js">is already tested</a>.</dd> </dl> </section> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="footer"> <div class="container"> <ul class="bs-docs-social-buttons"> <li> <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/git2.png"> Source Code</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/fork"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/git1.png"> Fork</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/slimerjs"><img src="assets/img/tweet.png"> Tweet</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/slimerjs"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/tchat2.png"> Mail List</a> <span class="separator">//</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug ? 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