I've now installed the Firefox 1.5 Beta 1. Most of my GreaseMonkey extensions broke, but it's definitely a faster browser and navigation is a tad easier. I also noticed that the run time for my JavaScript tests has been cut in half, but I also rebooted, so perhaps there's something else going on.
In other news, I think I've figured out a temporary fix for my Javascript testing problem. Since I've built static mockups of my dynamically generated forms, if I change how the forms are generated, my JS test could give false positives if I forget to update the static mockups. Instead, I think I'll have my Perl tests generate an MD5 signature for my static forms and write that signature out to a file that the JS tests will read in. If the signature doesn't match, I'll get an automatic test failure. It's not perfect, but it's a quick and easy way to let me know if I've missed some static mockups :)
It appears to have much better caching, so going forward and back is faster. It also no longer resubmits the request when viewing source. I always forget about that when shutting down a test server and then trying to view source. Very annoying!
Re:Better Caching
mroch on 2005-09-11T17:06:43
It also used to attempt to correct errors when you viewed the source, so it wasn't exactly what the server sent. Also very annoying for debugging.
