Selenium RC with Firefox 3 on Ubuntu

I faced a lot of issues when I tried to use Firefox 3 with Selenium RC on Ubuntu Hardy. So I thought if I post my experience it may help somebody. Below are the steps I followed to make Selenium RC working with Firefox 3 on Ubuntu.

* Get latest Nightly built for Selenium from the link here.
* Follow the instructions here to install Selenium Server and a Client. I use Perl so installed a perl client using CPAN like below:

% cpan
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601)
ReadLine support enabled
cpan> install Test::WWW::Selenium


* Now in order to use your perl script with Firefox3 following worded for me;

my $sel = Test::WWW::Selenium->new( host => "localhost",
port => 4444,
browser => "*custom /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox -p selenium",
browser_url => "http://change-this-to-the-site-you-are-testing/" );

* "-p selenium" option tells firefox to open "selenium" profile that I have created specifically for testing. if you need help with firefox profiles, here is a great tutorial.

* NOTE: The first time you may have to configure proxy of firefox browser to point 127.0.0.1:4444.

Have Fun!!