Messing around with #Selenium to automate some repetitive work stuff, and immediately ran into an annoyance.

By default it sends usage statistics to an external server (fortunately blocked by the work network) but it's opt-out without any obvious announcement.

Not a good first impression.

#Webdriver #Automation

🚀 A bunch of #WebDriver features and fixes landed in Firefox 146. WebDriver is the W3C standard for interoperable browser automation, for things like testing tools, and MCPs.

Keep up to date with all the progress here:
https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-146/

🚀 Firefox 145 introduces WebDriver BiDi enhancements like a new `emulation.setUserAgentOverride` command for spoofing user agents, a `browsingContext.downloadEnd` event to track completed downloads, plus various fixes: https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-145/

#Firefox #WebDriver

🚀 Webdriver Binaries Gradle plugin 4.0.0 has been released!

Documentation: https://webdriver-binaries.ysb33r.org/webdriver-binaries-gradle-plugin

Release notes: https://webdriver-binaries.ysb33r.org/webdriver-binaries-gradle-plugin/4.0.0/changelog.html

#gradle #webdriver

The webdriver libraries for #rstats are quite the mess and I can't get them to work with geckodriver.

So I'm just using plain geckodriver over http with httr2 and it works kinda ok.

I only wish there would be a useful api reference for the http #webdriver http api, with all endpoint and expected fields in the request body (any links welcome)

And I know python or java would be better tools, but this is at work and R is what the IT dpt installs without lengthy discussion.

Oops, we forgot to share the WebDriver news for Firefox 138!
WebDriver BiDi now lets you install unsigned extensions and allows to set a default viewport for user contexts: https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-138/

#Firefox #WebDriver #WebDev

Firefox 139 introduces geolocation override via WebDriver BiDi!
Now you can easily test location-aware features: https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-139/

#Firefox #WebDriver #WebDev

I'm really looking forward to @devconf_cz this year again for meeting many of you again, nerding out, and having 🍻 !

This time I only have a short #LightningTalk about browser automation with #webdriver #BiDi. If you are interested in testing web pages/apps or want to automate your daily web comic download, please say hi 👋

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/B98ZPE/

#conference #talk #brno

Yay, I now have bragging rights for "I have a commit in #Firefox" 🎉 I fixed a regression with frame animation waiting in the #webdriver #BiDi code. Many thanks to the super helpful and friendly Firefox #developers, Julian and Henrik!

https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/89213e1b63b61ae3c8e679d689c409ebe1f409d7

(plus the parent commit with some preparatory code refactoring)