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Copper Contributor

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...

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!

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

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.

PrasanthRV
Copper Contributor
Nov 28, 2019
Team , I am unable to run the selenium tests in Chrome and Edge(Chromium) in parallel mode . Separately , I am able to execute tests in either of the browsers , but in parallel mode ,only one test is getting succeeded.
johnjansen
Former Employee
Jul 22, 2019
mmiky123 Yes, that's correct. Each browser must have it's own Driver that specifically runs that version of the browser. So if you want to automate the Old Edge, you'd use MicrosoftWebDriver. If you want to automate the new Edge, you'd use MSEdgeDriver (and for the time being, tell it where to find the EXE to launch msedge.exe instead of chrome.exe).