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mmiky123
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...
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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
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
Jul 21, 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).

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    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.