I was just about to try Test::WWW::Selenium with Alien::SeleniumRC as suggested by Barbie here but I can't even get the example in the synopsis to work. 
use Test::More tests => 1;
use Test::WWW::Selenium;

# Parameters are passed through to WWW::Selenium
my $sel = Test::WWW::Selenium->new( host => "localhost",
                                    port => 4444,
                                    browser => "*firefox",
                                    browser_url => "http://www.google.
+com",
                                    default_names => 1,
                                  );

# use special test wrappers around WWW::Selenium commands:
$sel->open_ok("http://www.google.com");

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When I run the test script it is stuck and in the browser (Firefox) I can see it was trying to access 

http://www.google.com/selenium-server/core/RemoteRunner.html?sessionId
+=718835&multiWindow=false&baseUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&debugMo
+de=false

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and got 404.

So what am I doing wrong?

Update

OS: Ubuntu 7.10
Browser Firefox
Actual string in configuration is 
browser         => "*custom /usr/bin/firefox",

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No proxy in my network that I am aware of, but there might be transparent proxies...
perl 5.8.8
Test::WWW::Selenium is up to date (1.14).
Alien::SeleniumRC is up to date (0.91).

Solution

The browser configuration need to be changed to: 
 browser         => "*chrome /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin",

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In reply to Selenium example not working? by szabgab

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