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About geckodriver

geckodriver is a proxy for using W3C WebDriver-compatible clients to interact with Gecko-based browsers.

What's new in 0.36.0

Known problems - Startup hang with Firefox running in a container (e.g. snap, flatpak): When Firefox is packaged inside a container (like the default Firefox browser shipped with Ubuntu 22.04), it may see a different filesystem to the host. This can affect access to the generated profile directory, which may result in a hang when starting Firefox. Workarounds are listed in the geckodriver usage documentation. Added - Support for searching the Firefox Developer Edition’s default path on macOS. Implemented by Gatlin Newhouse. - Ability to push a WebExtension archive as created from a base64 encoded string to an Android device. - Added an allowPrivateBrowsing field for POST /session/{session id}/moz/addon/install to allow the installation of a WebExtension that is enabled in Private Browsing mode. - Introduced the --allow-system-access command line argument for geckodriver, which will be required for future versions of Firefox (potentially starting with 138.0) to allow testing in the chrome context. - Added support for preserving crash dumps for crash report analysis when Firefox crashes. If the MINIDUMP_SAVE_PATH environment variable is set to an existing folder, crash dumps will be saved accordingly. For mobile devices, the generated minidump files will be automatically transferred to the host machine. For more details see the documentation of how to handle crash reports. Changed - Updated the type of the x and y fields of pointer move actions (mouse and touch) from integer to fractional numbers to ensure a more precise input control. - Replaced serde_yaml with yaml-rust bec...

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