Selenium 4 | How To Install, Features

Introduction Selenium 4

Yes, Selenium 4.4.0 is released on 9th August’22.

Selenium 4 is introduced for Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, and Selenium Grid.

Selenium IDE: To use this there is no need of extensive programming knowledge. It supports rapid test development. It is like a record and playback tool.

Selenium WebDriver: It automates browser and supports programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, etc.,

Selenium Grid: It allows us to run our test scripts across multiple machines.

Download Selenium 4

You can find Selenium 4.4.0 in Maven repository. You can download it from Selenium official website

Download Selenium 4.4.0 – Maven Dependencies from here

Install Selenium 4

Please check this step by step Selenium 4 Installation Guide

Selenium 4 Features

Let’s see the new features of Selenium 4.

Changes to supported browsers:

• Native support has been removed for Opera and PhantomJS. Since the WebDriver implementations for these browsers are no longer under active development.
• For Opera, users should be able to simply rely on testing Chrome as the Opera browser is based on Chromium (and the operadriver was a thin wrapper around chromedriver).
• For PhantomJS, users should use Chrome or Firefox in headless mode instead of PhantomJS
• Added driver.switchTo().parentFrame()
• Replaced WebElement.getSize() and WebElement.getLocation() with a single method, WebElement.getRect().
• All window manipulation commands are now supported.
• Added getRect(), setRect(), fullScreen() and minimize() methods in driver.manage().window()
• Removed getPosition(), setPosition(), getSize() and setSize() methods
• Suggesting to use getRect() and setRect() methods instead of getPosition(), getSize() and setPosition(), setSize() respectively
• W3C recommendation document for Selenium WebDriver is now available and you can find the API Documentation here

Also you can find the Change documentation here

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