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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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mmiky123
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Apr 26, 2019
Thanks for the driver. I will have a little go and let you know how it does. Next steps would be to make the driver available via nuget since a lot of automation engineers I know work with those packages rather than downloading it manually and copying it into their automation framework.
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    mmiky123
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 26, 2019
    So besides renaming the filename to chromedriver since it only seems to detect that name by default everything runs fine with my first hello world test.
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      aseema31
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 16, 2019

      mmiky123 

      Please help me understand here, the only action taken here is to rename msedgedriver.exe to chromedriver.exe? Rest entire code remains the same as if we were using chromedriver? If so is the case can you please help me understand what to expect when we launch broswer
      ? Are we expecting chrome or edge to launch when ran in non headless mode?
      Thank you

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        mmiky123
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 21, 2019
        Hi. So it looks like the chromium edge driver is specifically tailored to chromium edge and its functionality, so it is by default searching for a chromium edge installation. From there it is just like the chromedriver with its functionality.
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      johnjansen
      Former Employee
      Apr 26, 2019

      mmiky123 glad to hear that. Yeah, we need to get our language bindings merged into Selenium to avoid the rename. I forgot to mention that. Glad your test worked, though!

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        BPascal
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        Apr 29, 2019
        It works fine with Java bindings using ChromeDriver and setting the "webdriver.chrome.driver" property.

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