Hate IE can I use Chrome?

[BigDod]

All of you fuck off.

I know my opinion means nothing but I agree.

[Valik]

Alright, I've just had time to read this thread. This asinine. If the intent is to automate something then who gives a fuck if it's Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari? The argument "I hate IE" doesn't hold a bit of water. Presumably we're not talking about using Internet Explorer as a human facing web browser where such an argument might be valid - albeit intangible. We're talking about something either embedded or hidden entirely. Something that can and should be locked down to only it's intended purpose. For this scenario Internet Explorer is perfectly acceptable because it is the only browser that provides a rich API for manipulating it.

One additional point to the absurdity here is the fact that Internet Explorer is used all over the place in Windows. Simply opening the AutoIt documentation is sufficient to instantiate an instance of the Internet Explorer control. Are you now going to suggest you will never open the documentation because you hate IE that much? The point is, if a tool works for the job, use it and move along. Asking if another tool exists is perfectly fine, but either ignore the existing tool or at least have the courtesy to give a sensible reason why you don't wish to use it. If you have a list of technical reasons why IE will not suffice, then fine. "I hate it" is not a technical reason, it's just an unsolicited and unsubstantiated opinion.

As for the off-topic posts, whatever. All I can say is unclejimbob isn't off to an auspicious start. I don't recall it being your places to come on here with your 0 post count and < 1 hour registration time (at the time of your posting) lecture us. James is probably a bit out-of-line with his post as well, but only in the sense that he said what I would say before I was made aware of the thread. I'm not going to fault him for that.

Also, MrSmiley, feeling the need to point out name calling is "immature and stupid" is immature and stupid because it's name calling.

Anyway, this is all a lot of silliness.

[MonsieurOUXX]

Hello people! Any news on a Chrome UDF or Chrome COM workarounds since mid-2010?

I don't follow Chrome-related news, so I don't know if the "embedded in IE" thingie has come to maturity, but I'm sure the guy who mentionned it knows more about this.

[corgano]

Hello people! Any news on a Chrome UDF or Chrome COM workarounds since late-2011?
I need to automate a page that doesn't work in IE (because we all know how compatible IE is with everything)

[Danp2]

Not AFAIK. Have you tried Firefox?

[water]

Unfortunately not. Only IE, FF and Opera.

There was a thread about Chrome latelly stating that you can't automate Chrome.

[junkew]

There are multiple approaches to automate chrome

A. Use ui automation i will make a demo in a few weeks from now

B. Follow similar approach as ff.au3 by having a small addin with a tcp listener

C. Use selenium

[junkew]

I have started the basic UI automation framework in this thread. Based on that I wil make a further working demo on chrome in a separate thread
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