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Update 2015-01-12: This issue is fixed in the new iMacros V10.3 – please download it from the iMacros Download Page. — On December 17th, Microsoft released update KB3025390 for IE11. After applying this update, all TAG commands played back in iMacros for IE result in the following error: Error -1300: Access is denied. (Exception from

We have two new releases for you before the holidays: iMacros V10.3 BETA This version features a completely rewritten and improved ONDOWNLOAD manager. The key differences between the old and the new download manager are that the new one is much better suited for mass-downloading, web performance monitoring and load testing. It also contains a dedicated

The iMacros Chrome and Firefox web automation browser addons have been popular throughout 2014. And in November we reached 500,000 active users. Actually… by the time I found the write this post, we are already at 531.000 and counting. In the name of the whole team and Ipswitch, Thank you for using iMacros 🙂 Mathias

The following examples are based on the use of the WhatsUp Gold Server (WUG) of Ipswitch Inc.   1     Handling Dynamic IDs Normally, the automatically generated macro files work the way they are recorded by iMacros. However, sometimes an error occurs during replay due to a “tricky” or dynamic web page. In this case, editing the

iMacros v10.1 is here:  We’re pleased to announce the launch of iMacros V10.1, which includes Native 64-bit support Internet Explorer 11 support Windows OS 8/8.1 support Compatible with IE’s Enhanced Protected Mode HTML5 input support Customers will need an activation key to upgrade, and if you can’t locate your activation you can retrieve this from

Great news: The Mozilla add-on team selected iMacros as featured addon for August: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/ “Automate Firefox. Record and replay repetitious work. If you love the Firefox web browser, but are tired of repetitive tasks like visiting the same sites every days, filling out forms, and remembering passwords, then iMacros for Firefox is the solution you’ve been

Today we released iMacros for Chrome V8.07 in the Chrome gallery. This maintenance release fixes an issue with recording and replaying macros on websites with frames. It  looks like our friends from Google have changed something again regarding to the “win.frames” property. But they have finally done it right this time. It works now also

Update 2014/5/26: A new version with a fix is available in the Google Chrome extension gallery. For more details please see  http://wiki.imacros.net/iMacros_for_Chrome#Installation  If you have any questions or still encounter issues, please inform us in the iMacros for Chrome user forum. — It is as bad as it sounds. iMacros for Chrome works just fine in Chrome

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our iMacros webinar,  Learn How to Automate Complex Web Tasks. We had a big turnout and received some great questions from our user community. If you missed the webinar or would like to watch it again, we’ve included an embedded link to view the full recording. You

Find out how Civica uses iMacros to automate the web scraping of fast-changing data, such as currency conversion rates and banking data. To find out more, download a complete PDF copy of the case study today. About Civica Civica provides specialist systems and outsourcing services to the public sector in the UK, Europe and Australia. Civica’s