Do web sites with logins work?

Yes, but you will need to use BrowserLab in Firefox with Firebug and our Firebug extension installed.

You can get Firebug here:

http://getfirebug.com/

And the BrowserLab for Firebug add-on here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/231196/

Once  you have Firefox, Firebug, and the BrowserLab add-on installed, navigate Firefox to the internal site  you'd like to preview in BrowserLab, login, and once the page is loaded right-click on the add-on icon at  the bottom of your browser and choose "Preview Local Source".

Here's a link to a video showing some of the features of the add-on:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/design-for-the-web-with-browserlab-and-firebug/

Let me know if you have any questions,

Mark

We have a couple of additional movies on AdobeTV that show these kinds of workflows:

Testing local content, or content that requires authentication using BrowserLab for Firebug: http://adobe.ly/BL_FB

Testing local content from Dreamweaver using BrowserLab for Dreamweaver: http://adobe.ly/lhKALX

Enjoy!

Bruce

Bruce Bowman

BrowserLab product manager

I also have the same problem, when i am working at my workspace. There is problem that i need to login again and again.so i will try this one definitely to resolve my problem.If it not works then i will ask you again.You will help me to sort out this one.

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The firebug integration appears to work to some degree. The problem is that some of the browsers load my web pages and other browsers either don't load or load completely incorrect. I'm accessing a subpages of https://www.usana.com/dotCom/login which are:

http://www.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/DLMNoAccess?subNav=NavGroup_98

http://www.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/eCardsNoAccess?subNav=NavGroup_98

http://www.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/FollowUpAssistant?subNav=NavGroup_98

http://www.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/IncomeMaximizerHealthAndFreedom?subNav=NavGroup_98

The following browsers almost display the pages correctly:

IE 7

IE 8

The following browsers load the pages completely incorrect:

IE 9

Firefox 4

Chrome 11

Firefox 5 Mac

Firefox 4 Mac

Safari 5 Mac

Hi Mapletuxx,

I can't test the URLs you sent because I can't login or create an account on that site. Can you send us some login credentials we can use to get to those pages and take a look at the issue? You can email them directly to me mrausch (at) adobe (dot) com

Thanks,

Mark

No problem Mark,

Use these login credentials:

username: 78867

password: usanatest

Use these links to start the testing with:

http://www.trial.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/DLMNoAccess?subNav=NavGroup_98

http://www.trial.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/eCardsNoAccess?subNav=NavGroup_ 98

http://www.trial.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/FollowUpAssistant?subNav=NavGro up_98

http://www.trial.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/IncomeMaximizerHealthAndFreedom ?subNav=NavGroup_98

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Sorry,

Use these links to start the testing with:

http://trial.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/DLMNoAccess?subNav=NavGroup_98

http://trial.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/eCardsNoAccess?subNav=NavGroup_98

http://trial.usana.com/Main/myUsana/page/FollowUpAssistant?subNav=NavGroup_98

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We don't have access to either http://www.trial.usana.com or http://trial.usana.com

I assume one or both of those servers are staging servers behind your firewall. But we did test against http://www.usana.com/ecard/home?subNav=NavGroup_98 . The attached screenshot shows what we got for Firefox 5 which was definitely incorrect compared to IE. We are looking into it.

Thanks,

Mark

Hey Mapletuxx,

please try the below steps.

1. please make sure that Firebug is engaged for your page, by default Firebug is not engaged (grey) in color , when engaged it turns orange color - please ensure that Firebug is orange for your page

2. Ensure that "Net" tab of Firebug is enabled

3. Refresh your page

this will ensure that "Firebug net cache" is available and will increase/improve performance for streaming assets back to BL cloud service for preview.

please try the above steps - it should fix the issue you are running into.

Thanks,

Amit Kishnani

Adobe

Thanks Amit.

Here are screenshots from Amit that go along with his response.

Mark Rausch has recently written an excellent blog post on this topic. You can find it on the BrowserLab Team Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/browserlab/2011/08/22/testing-private-content-with-browserlab/

Bruce

I'm not sure if the thread got locked but I'm unable to post a reply via the site..only by email,

The suggestions worked and the tool works great now! If only it was able to automtically crawl my site like BrowserCam or provide error indentification and details like Browsera then this would be the best tool on the market!

Thanks for letting us know things are working now. I'll pass your suggestions along to Bruce Bowman, our product manager.

Thanks,

Mark

Some of our sites serve page content based on the browser. Is it a save assumption that the alternative pages will not be viewed when using this method? (Seems like a safe assumption that you are only testing the code that was avaliiable to firebug when it was accessed by firefox this way.)

Is their an option that will allow a secure page to be accessed via browser lab without going the firebug approach?

Thanks!

the only other integration point/alternative which lends itself to "secure page" login workflow is Dreamweaver CS 5 & Dreamweaver CS 5.5 which has the same level of integration as Firebug. Dreamweaver CS5.5 has a feature called "Live View" which you can interact with and do the login.

HTH,

Amit Kishnani

Adobe.

Hi Mark,

I'm excited of this feature and I can't wait to test how it works but at now I'm using Chrome browser. It's possible to install simillar add-on but under Chrome?

All the best

Marcin