Comments on: JSSh (Firefox 3.0) with Optional Port Number

By: Robert James Fetter

Robert James Fetter — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:47:29 +0000

Are there any thoughts on supporting Firefox 4.0.1 ?

By: ondrej

ondrej — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:42:28 +0000

@stanley: thank you

By: Stanley

Stanley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:47:05 +0000

I’ve written an updated guide for setting up Firefox with JSSH support on Ubuntu 64bit: How to build Firefox 3.5+ with JSSH on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
It should work for all Firefox versions up to 3.7a.

Hope this helps some of you.

By: bbiker

bbiker — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:23:09 +0000

Do you know if this jssh would work on an iMac with Firefox 3.0.10?

If yes, I would appreciate instructions how to setup (I am newbie)

PS I also use Firefox 3.0.10 and Firewatir 1.6.2 on my Windows XP SP3 machine.
Essentially no problem, except that that I cannot telnet to localhost:997.
This is not a show stopper for me.

Thank you for any assistance you may provide.

By: ondrej

ondrej — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:32:54 +0000

Slava & Matt: I am sorry, I did not test the add-on/plug-in on a 64bit distro. It worked fine for me on my 32bit system. Thomas: - not up to date: Unfortunately, you are right. I tried to summarise all versions around to one text file (located in the add-on package). - Firefox newer then June '08: It worked for me with the newest Firefox in November '08 (on a 32bit system). - compiling Firefox yourself: It is a way (just takes tens of minutes :). The patch for the jssh port was committed - if you have a version without it, I would suggest to apply the latest patch from the bug 451536.

By: Thomas Albright

Thomas Albright — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:51:41 +0000

The jssh Firefox Add-On is not officially supported, and not kept up to date. I noticed the one on Watir’s installation page was made in June 2008. I’m sure it won’t work with any 64-bit Firefox, and it pry won’t work with any version of Firefox newer than June 2008.

May I suggest compiling Firefox yourself, with jssh enabled. See here: http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/07/build-firefox-3-web-browser-with-jssh.html

By: matt

matt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:38:04 +0000

Same exact problem as the above poster. It seems jssh does not work correctly with ubuntu 8.10 x64.
I’m pretty sure it works on a 32 bit install of ubuntu but not positive of that. This sucks as i was really hoping to get watir (firewatir actually) working on my ubuntu box.

By: slava

slava — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:18:46 +0000

This does not seem to work for me on Ubuntu 8.10 x64 and firefox 3. I tried installing jssh extention and starting the browser according to instructions, but telnet can’t connect to browser.

~ $ firefox -no-remote -P jssh -jssh
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
sh: acroread: not found

~ $ telnet localhost 9997
Trying 127.0.0.1…
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused