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mmiky123
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Apr 11, 2019
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Chromium Edge automation with selenium (best practice)

Hi Guys,   since ChromiumEdge is now available as a canary and a dev version I am also all to curious about how selenium will come into play as it is basically a chromium browser. What webdriver wi...
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    Handariel
    Jul 18, 2019

    johnjansen actually it do not open with the edge:  

    i installed Edge dev Version 77.0.211.3, and Edge Canary Version 77.0.218.4 too. And I use the Version: 77.0.219.0 driver. My test open chrome, not edge. I tried with chromeoption, with System.setProperty, but still. Can you help me what I do wrong? Thanks! 

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johnjansen
Iron Contributor
Apr 18, 2019

mmiky123, I also wanted to let you know that we will have an MSEdgeDriver available very soon. It will have a download link and should also be in a chocolatey package. For the time being, you can point the ChromeDriver to the msedge.exe binary. One challenge there is that Selenium checks for the Browser version and will throw an error, so you ALSO have to modify the python script in Selenium. If you know how to do that, go for it. If not, you can wait just a little bit of time.

 

-John 

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mmiky123
Copper Contributor
Apr 18, 2019
Thank you for the update. I am really looking forward to it. That driver also will be very beneficial for every web dev or people who develop extensions for your browser as it has a stable foundation to work with.

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