PM22824: RFT fails to recognise a valid Firefox 3.5.11 folder on SLES 10.2

IBM Rational Functional Tester Version 8.2.0.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• RFT [8.1.1.3] on SLES [10.2] cannot recognise (or use) Firefox
  [3.5.11]
  
  When you install SLES 10.2, it comes with Firefox 2.0.0.4
  already
  Now, if you need to test web applications with Firefox to
  3.5.11, you have 2 ways forward:
  
  1. download and install the 3.5.11 for Linux package,
  2. upgrade Firefox via SuSE software updater (YaST)
  
  * If you follow the 1st path, you end up with deployed FF 3.5.11
  package that:
  - is recognised by RFT (and can be enabled), but
  - is not working at all (due to missing dependencies - shared
  object libraries)
  
  * If you follow the 2nd path, you get:
  - a working and perfectly healthy FF 3.5.11
  - that RFT fails to see as a valid browser location
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  When Firefox on SLES 10.2 is upgraded to 3.5.2 version, RFT
  does not recognize the firefox directory.
  

Problem conclusion

• Some of the files from Firefox 3.5.2 in /usr/firefox/lib/
  directory were different. This prevented it from being
  recognizing as a Firefox directory. Corrected the detection
  and Firefox testing code to accommodate these new changes.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RAT FUNC TESTER

• Fixed component ID

  5724G2504

Applicable component levels

• R811 PSN

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