SilkTest User's Guide: Recovery System - Enabling browser support on a target machine

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Recovery System - Enabling browser support on a target machine

<< Recovery System - Setting up the recovery system | Recovery System - Primary Extension field >>

User's Guide

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Setting up the recovery system

If you do not plan to test Web applications, you must disable all browser
extensions on the host machine.

Enabling browser extensions

Enabling browser
support on a target
machine

By default, SilkTest enables all the browser extensions on your target
machine during the installation procedure. To change the default settings or
verify your current settings, you must invoke a utility called the Extension
Enabler, as described in the following procedure.

Note If you are running local tests--that is, your target and host are
the same machine--you must still ensure that browser extensions are
enabled appropriately by running the Extension Enabler on the host
machine.

Procedure To enable support for browsers on a target machine:

From the Silk program group, click Extension Enabler.

The Extension Enabler dialog opens, as in this example:

Enable support for the browsers you want to use, if they aren't already
enabled. In the Primary Extension field for a browser, choose Enabled.

Select any other extensions that the browser needs for testing such as
ActiveX or fault trapping. We recommend that you do not turn on fault
trapping until you really need it.

Click OK to close the Extension Enabler dialog.

Enabling browser
support on a host
machine

You enable support for browsers on the host machine using the Extensions
dialog. Be advised that there is overhead associated with having more than
one browser extension enabled, so do so only if you are actually testing more
than one browser in an automated session.