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Difference between geckodriver and marionette [duplicate]

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firefox

selenium-webdriver

geckodriver

firefox-marionette

I don't fully understand the difference between geckodriver and marionette.

  • Can anyone clarify the difference between them?

For example, when I use Selenium WebDriver to control a Firefox browser, I need a geckodriver binary to listen the WebDriver protocol from Selenium.

  • Is Marionette the Firefox extension that actually drives Firefox?
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Boni García Avatar asked Mar 22 '17 15:03

Boni García

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Selenium uses W3C Webdriver protocol to send requests to Geckodriver, which translates them and uses Marionette protocol to send them to Firefox

Selenium<--(W3C Webdriver)-->Geckodriver<---(Marionette)--->Firefox

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Danio Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 03:10

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