If you just want it to navigate to different pages, you can use
gtkmozembed.This is more stable and basically just plug and play (it's
a little
difficult to get it up on windows though).

Matthew Sherborne

On 8/16/05, Chris Curvey <ccurvey@[...].com>  wrote:
>  
>  Hi all,
>  
>  What I need to do is control a Mozilla browser via a Python script. In 
>  other words, I want my Python script to start Mozilla, tell it to navigate 
>  to a certain page, click on a link, fill out a form, click on a button, etc. 
>  I want Mozilla to continue to handle JavaScript, cookies, and the rest of 
>  it. Maybe a better way to describe it is that I want to replace my mouse and 
>  keyboard with a Python script.
>  
>  PyXPCOM looks like what I need to do this, but after reading the docs, I'm 
>  still unclear (and this seems like a pretty deep pool to jump into 
>  unawares). So my questions are:
>  
>  Is PyXPCOM what I'm looking for?
>  Do I need to build my own version of Mozilla or Firefox in order to make 
>  this happen?
>  It looks like I need the Mozilla or Firefox source in any case, just to 
>  compile PyXPCOM. Is this correct?
>  Can anyone point me to any doco for the interfaces that Mozilla/Firefox 
>  provides thru XPCOM?
>  
>  I'll stop asking questions now :) Thanks in advance, and if PyXPCOM is the 
>  right thing for me, then I look forward to working with you all. 
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