We are proud to announce the next major release of geckodriver 0.36.0. It ships with some new features and fixes to improve your WebDriver experience.

Contributions

With geckodriver being an open source project, we are grateful to get contributions from people outside of Mozilla:

• Gatlin Newhouse added support for searching the Firefox Developer Edition’s default path on macOS.

Geckodriver code is written in Rust so any web developer can contribute! Read how to setup the work environment and check the list of mentored issues for geckodriver.

Added

• Support for searching the Firefox Developer Edition’s default path on macOS. Implemented by Gatlin Newhouse.
• Ability to push a WebExtension archive as created from a base64 encoded string to an Android device.
• Added an allowPrivateBrowsing field for POST /session/{session id}/moz/addon/install to allow the installation of a WebExtension that is enabled in Private Browsing mode.
• Introduced the --allow-system-access command line argument for geckodriver, which will be required for future versions of Firefox (potentially starting with 138.0) to allow testing in the chrome context.
• Added support for preserving crash dumps for crash report analysis when Firefox crashes. If the MINIDUMP_SAVE_PATH environment variable is set to an existing folder, crash dumps will be saved accordingly. For mobile devices, the generated minidump files will be automatically transferred to the host machine. For more details see the documentation of how to handle crash reports.

Changed

• Updated the type of the x and y fields of pointer move actions (mouse and touch) from integer to fractional numbers to ensure a more precise input control.
• Replaced serde_yaml with yaml-rust because it’s no longer officially supported.
• The --enable-crash-reporter command line argument has been deprecated to prevent crash reports from being submitted to Socorro. This argument will be completely removed in the next version. Instead, use the MINIDUMP_SAVE_PATH environment variable to get minidump files saved to a specified location.

Fixed

• Fixed route registration for WebAuthn commands, which were introduced in geckodriver 0.34.0 but mistakenly registered under /sessions/ instead of /session/, causing them to be non-functional.

Removed

• Removed the -no-remote command-line argument usage for Firefox, which does no longer exist.

Downloads

Geckodriver 0.36.0 can be downloaded for all supported platforms as usual from our GitHub release page.