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leiwang
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How to get appropriate drivers for a specific browser Mar 23, 2017 7:06:50 GMT

Post by leiwang on Mar 23, 2017 7:06:50 GMT

In the article "Platforms Supported by Selenium", under section Browsers we can find the specification for different browser/driver.

Below are links to download browser drivers:

IE, on page selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html, you can find the links (named as version such as 2.52, 3.0 etc.), click the version you need and find the IEDriverServer_xxx to download.
Chrome on page sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads, you can download the latest version. Please pay attention to the file notes.txt where you can find which versions of chrome are supported by which version of driver. You can download previous driver from chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
Firefox 46.0 or ealier, the driver is included in selenium, no need to download separated driver, it is better to use selenium 2.53 or earlier

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48.0 or higher, download version v0.15.0 or higher from github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases, it is better to use selenium v3.3.0 or higher
[li]Edge find section "Downloads" on page developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/[/li][/ul]
Below are wikis about some browser drivers:
github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver
github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver
github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver
github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver

Last Edit: Mar 23, 2017 8:56:37 GMT by leiwang

leiwang
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How to get appropriate drivers for a specific browser Mar 23, 2017 7:07:02 GMT

Post by leiwang on Mar 23, 2017 7:07:02 GMT

Firefox 46.0 or earlier with selenium 2.X
Unlike Chrome and IE, there is no separate driver for Firefox, it is included in the selenium-server-standalone directly, please refer to github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver. So if SE+ fails to work as the Fireforx browser upgrades, you just need to download the latest selenium-server-standalone and put it to %SELENIUM_PLUS%/libs.

According to Selenium change log, Firefox driver has been moved out of selenium from v3.0.0-beta4 and later version.

Firefox 47.0.0, 47.0.1 etc. NOT SUGGESTED TO USE with selenium 2.X, v3.0.0-beta4 and v3.0.0
It is said "Firefox is only fully supported at version 47.0.1 or earlier" and "Firefox 47.0.0 is not supported at all" for selenium v3.0.0-beta4 and v3.0.0, it is kind of contradict, so it is better to avoid using Firefox 47.0.0 etc.
With my experience, it can work with selenium 3.3.0 (or later) and geckodriver v0.15.0

Firefox 48.0 or higher with selenium 3.3.0 or later
it is suggested to use geckodriver v0.15.0 or higher.

Download Firefox older versions from ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

Last Edit: Mar 27, 2017 9:02:19 GMT by leiwang

leiwang
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How to get appropriate drivers for a specific browser Oct 31, 2017 8:53:23 GMT

Post by leiwang on Oct 31, 2017 8:53:23 GMT

After upgrading SeleniumPlus to support selenium 3.4, the provided driver's version and its corresponding browser's version are as below:

Driver	Browser	Selenium Server
chromedriver.exe 2.33	Chrome v60-62	3.4 or higher
geckodriver.exe (32 bits) 0.19.0	Firefox (32 bits) 55.0 and higher	3.5 or higher
IEDriverServer.exe 2.52.0	IE 11.1715, user may need to download the version 3.3 from the download link	3.4 or higher
MicrosoftWebDriver.exe 14393	Edge 14.14393	3.4 or higher

After upgrading SeleniumPlus to support selenium 3.14, the current provided driver's version and its corresponding browser's version are as below:

Driver	Browser	Selenium Server
chromedriver.exe 2.46	Chrome 75.0.3770.80	3.14 or higher
geckodriver.exe (32 bits) 0.24.0	Firefox (32 bits) 65.0.1	3.14 or higher
IEDriverServer.exe 2.52.0	IE 11.1715, user may need to download the version 3.3 from the download link	3.14 or higher
MicrosoftWebDriver.exe 16299	Edge 16.16299	3.14 or higher

NOTE
1. These drivers are provided in the folder %SELENIUM_PLUS%\extra
2. For Firefox, we also provide a geckodriver_64.exe. The user needs to rename it to geckodriver.exe to support 64-bit Firefox.
3. User can always get the latest driver from the links in the previous thread, and replace the driver in %SELENIUM_PLUS%\extra to work with the latest browser. But it must be verified/tested that driver will work with selenium 3.4
4. After getting a stable driver, it is highly recommended to "pin" the browser's version to prevent it from updating automatically.
5. If there are strange problems after updating SeleniumPlus, the user should firstly check if the browser's version matches the supported versions in the above table.

Last Edit: Jul 4, 2019 0:40:59 GMT by leiwang

leiwang
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How to get appropriate drivers for a specific browser Aug 9, 2019 9:26:02 GMT

Post by leiwang on Aug 9, 2019 9:26:02 GMT

"chromedriver.exe 2.46" failed to run with chrome 76.0.3809.100 (Official Build) (64-bit), I downloaded chromedriver 76.0.3809.68 and it worked.

Be careful with other versions of chrome, it may not work with them. I have a machine with chrome 75, and SeleniumPlus failed to start a browser with the following exception
SessionNotCreatedException:session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 76

Last Edit: Aug 13, 2019 2:00:18 GMT by leiwang