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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by XCSme on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:18PM (#15133993)
So something like Webdriver.io ?
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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by jacalata on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:52PM (#15135385)
Like that, but with documentation.
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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by shados on Thursday August 31, 2017 @12:15AM (#15138122)
and that actually works. Using headless chrome with the direct API is so much more reliable than the selenium API.
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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by Lightbody on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:10AM (#15138465)
The onus of who actually automates the browser is moving from Selenium (the open source project) to the browser vendors. This will help with reliability and is also exactly what you're asking for:

https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/

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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by shados on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:29AM (#15140554)
Right. That will be nice when it's done and stable (I'm looking at you, Safari), but for my tests today that doesn't really help me.
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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by wgjordan on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:54AM (#15140718)
I would be very interested in tracking the details you're hinting at to know when this is done and stable to use reliably. Do you have specific examples/issues related to what your tests today require that is unreliable / not currently possible using WebDriver with Safari and/or headless Chrome?
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