To try this out, all that you need to do is point your JAR files to the latest version of Selenium 3 and then run the same code that is given above. What happens when you don’t use Firefox Geckodriver with Selenium 3.x Let’s see whats the new implementation in Selenium 3. This is how it worked with Selenium 2.53 and before. If you just run this code, you would notice that Firefox browser would get opened and would be displayed in the browser. After you download and install Selenium, you just write the code to instantiate the WebDriver and open Firefox. It was a pretty straight forward process where you were not required to use Geckodriver or any other driver. If you are new to Selenium and you have started directly with Selenium 3.x, you would not know how Firefox was launched with the previous versions of Selenium (version 2.53 and before). How things worked before Geckodriver and Selenium 3 It translates calls into the Marionette automation protocol by acting as a proxy between the local and remote ends. This program provides the HTTP API described by the WebDriver protocol to communicate with Gecko browsers. Geckodriver is a proxy for using W3C WebDriver-compatible clients to interact with Gecko-based browsers i.e. You can get more information about Gecko here – (software) Let us first start with the very basics – What is Gecko and GeckoDriver? Gecko is a web browser engine used in many applications developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, most noticeably the Firefox web browser, its mobile version other than iOS devices, their email client Thunderbird and many other open source software projects. Firefox – version 59.0.2 (Firefox Quantum)Īre you using an older version of Selenium Webdriver? Make sure you switch to the latest Selenium Webdriver version to avoid compatibility issues!!.The tool versions that we will be using in this article are –
In this article we use the latest versions of Selenium, Firefox & Geckodriver and show you how you can launch Firefox by providing updated code snippets. This article provides a detailed, step by step guide on how to launch Firefox with Selenium Geckodriver.
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