Can anybody tell me how to install Selenium WebDriver on Mac OS X 10.7.5 supporting Chrome, Firefox and safari? 1565/installing-selenium-webdriver-on-mac-os Toggle navigation.
Simply download the combined container, start it and point your code at the right address. Specify it in your Selenium setup code and check it into source control like any other configuration detail. If you go this route, you can include additional drivers like GeckoDriver (aka Firefox) as well.
To support WebDriver without sacrificing a user’s privacy or security, Safari’s driver provides extra safeguards to ensure that test execution is isolated from normal browsing data and from other test runs. The driver is available in Safari 10 or later. Isolated Automation Windows.
Previously SafariDriver was supporting safari browser on Windows machine but recently Apple has decided to remove its support for windows and then executions on safari has become the job of Mac machine. So for the same, we need a mac machine where safari browser should be installed. But if you want to learn how to launch chrome in Selenium then read this post Installing Chromedriver on MAC and for windows machine read Launch Chrome Browser Using WebDriver
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So let’s get back to the topic, Safari driver has been implemented as a plugin in the safari browser and this provides a perfect match of client and server machine where SafariDriverServer acts as a server and Selenium-Java/Language binding acts as a client.
So for the same, we need to download the plugin and it needs to be installed on Safari browser and once plugin installed on Safari everything is set and you can write a script for a safari like any other browser by calling the
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1- Go to http://seleniumhq.org
2- Go to Download tab
3- Again navigate to “SafariDriver” heading
4- Now click on hyperlink beside “Latest Release”
Selenium Webdriver Tutorial
5- It will download the plugin and double click on downloaded file and it will open the extension installation screen. Click on “Trust ” button and it will install it in the browser and by default, it will check WebDriver checkbox.
Safari Webdriver Download
6- Go to your eclipse and write scripts and it will work like any other browser on Mac machine
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