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geckodriver is an implementation of WebDriver, and WebDriver can be used for widely different purposes. How you invoke geckodriver largely depends on your use case. If you are using geckodriver through Selenium, you must ensure that you have version 3.11 or greater. Because geckodriver implements the W3C WebDriver standard and not the same Selenium wire protocol older drivers are using, you may experience incompatibilities and migration problems when making the switch from FirefoxDriver to geckodriver. Generally speaking, Selenium 3 enabled geckodriver as the default WebDriver implementation for Firefox. With the release of Firefox 47, FirefoxDriver had to be discontinued for its lack of support for the new multi-processing architecture in Gecko. Since geckodriver is a separate HTTP server that is a complete remote end implementation of WebDriver, it is possible to avoid using the Selenium remote server if you have no requirements to distribute processes across a matrix of systems.
Features
- Proxy for using W3C WebDriver compatible clients to interact with Gecko-based browsers
- Provides the HTTP API described by the WebDriver protocol to communicate with Gecko browsers
- Translates calls into the Marionette remote protocol
- Acts as a proxy between the local and remote ends
- geckodriver is made available under the Mozilla Public License
- Its source code can be found in mozilla-central under testing/geckodriver
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