All I want to do is click a login button to have the underlying JavaScript trigger and build the new web page. I just recently came back to Perl after, I don't know, 20 years? Anyway I got hung up on this little item for the last few days and would greatly appreciate some help. The code opens the website page in Firefox, and the button never gets clicked. 
#!/usr/local/perls/perl-5.20.0/bin/perl
use v5.10;
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $FEXdms =        'http://www.financeexpress.com/';
my $web_page = 'current';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(
   tab => $web_page,
    activate => 1,  # bring the tab to the foreground
    autoclose => 0  # to prevent autoclosing of the Tab
);

$mech->get( $FEXdms );

$mech->click_button( name=> "btnLogin" );

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Uncaught exception from user code: No elements found for //*(translate(local-name(.), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YZ", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") = "button" and @name="btnLogin") or (translate(loc al-name(.), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")="input" and @ type="button" or @type="submit" and @name="btnLogin") at test.pl line 20.

WWW::Mechanize::Firefox::signal_condition(WWW::Mechanize::Firefox=HASH(0x2644 b94), "No elements found for //*[(translate(local-name(.), \"ABCDEFGH"...) called at C:/Perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Firefox.pm line 2640

WWW::Mechanize::Firefox::xpath(WWW::Mechanize::Firefox=HASH(0x2644b94), "//*[ (translate(local-name(.), \"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\", \""..., "node", undef, "sin gle", 1, "user_message", "Button name 'btnLogin' unknown") called at C:/Perl/site/lib /WWW/Mechanize/Firefox.pm line 3065

WWW::Mechanize::Firefox::click_button(WWW::Mechanize::Firefox=HASH(0x2644b94) , "name", "btnLogin") called at test.pl line 20

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