Get browser version using selenium webdriver

Question

How would I get the browser version being used?

>>> from selenium import webdriver >>> driver = webdriver.Firefox() >>> print version <-- how to do this?     Firefox 12.0 

Answer 1

This answer led me down the right path but is specific to python and the topic is more broad. So, I'm adding an answer for Java which was a bit more tricky. At this time I am using selenium 2.25.0.

//make sure have correct import statements - I had to add these import org.openqa.selenium.Capabilities; import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();  Capabilities caps = ((RemoteWebDriver) driver).getCapabilities(); String browserName = caps.getBrowserName(); String browserVersion = caps.getVersion(); System.out.println(browserName+" "+browserVersion);