http://johnmudd.infogami.com/blog/5be6 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-selenium-ajax/ Install Download selenium-rc unzip it have a startup script #!/bin/bash #export PATH=$PATH:/home/joerg/tmp/firefox #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/joerg/tmp/firefox export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/iceweasel export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/iceweasel java -jar selenium-server.jar -interactive Create a new profile for firefox http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore#Disable How do we test Ajax with selenium? http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2006/03/ajax-testing-with-selenium-using_21.html gives the idea that maybe extensions might be the way to go. Reading http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?messageID=25902 makes tells me that maybe we don't need extensions - instead of that we just feed a sleep/wait in js to the browser, using get_eval Http authentication http://freshfoo.com/blog/2006/11/http-auth-and-selenium.html Do we really want to use python written tests, or are we better of using normal selenium/table driven? Can selenium do everything that funkload does?