Firefox (Geckodriver) Support

[GCuser99]

The Firefox Geckodriver is nearly as functional as the Chrome/Edge drivers. There are just a few limitations that need attention...

Known limitations of Geckodriver:

• Shutdown Method not recognized (currrently using taskkill to shutdown)
• Multi-session functionality not supported - cannot start more than one session for same driver instance
• Multi-driver instances not supported (must check if driver process is running and kill process before starting a new driver instance).
• PrintScale method of PrintSettings class does not seem to have effect
• GetSessionsInfo method of WebDriver class not supported
• SetGeolocation and GetGeolocation methods of WebDriver class not supported

Any suggested ideas, comments, fixes, and use cases are welcome!

[GCuser99]

As of Geckodriver version 0.32.0, wheel-type Actions are now supported. Edited above to reflect this change.

[GCuser99]

In addition to the above limitations of the geckodriver, I have run into a bug with Firefox browser that may affect users of this software. Firefox's json-viewer throws an error and scrambles the input json if the source was saved in utf-16 encoding (requires utf-8). The problem with this is that the FileSystemObject saves non-pure ascii in utf-16. I have reported this bug here, but based on the initial response (is it a feature?), there may not be a resolution coming soon or ever.

[GCuser99]

As of GeckoDriver version 0.33.0, and Firefox browser version 113, Arial and ShadowRoot support are in place. I have edited the original post to reflect this.