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Anonymous
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Reputation: 888

WebDriver: Why latest versions of Eclipse and Selenium Server is not compatible with latest version of Firefox

I tried to execute a script in WebDriver with following latest versions of Eclipse, Selenium Server and Firefox, only Firefox gets executed and script does not execute further:

  1. Eclipse Luna Service Release 2 (4.4.2)
  2. Selenium JAR selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0
  3. Firefox 36.0.4 and Firefox 38 beta version

However, when I used Firefox 32.0, Scripts runs completely.

What could be the technical reason behind non-compatibility of latest Firefox version with Latest Eclipse and Selenium JAR?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2787

Answers (1)

Edmond Chhung
Edmond Chhung

Reputation: 86

Please see here in the changelog. It seems that mozilla has rewritten some of there apis which is now not available but selenium relied on this.

Changelog

v2.45.0

Important changes in this release:

  • Native events in Firefox relied on an API that Mozilla no longer provides. As such, fall back to synthesized events on recent Firefox
    versions.

I have been looking for the latest firefox version supported. Other people have found the same problem and are rolling back to using v35.0.1 see here

Upvotes: 1

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