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Re:Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping? by AutomatedTester on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:05PM (#15698634)
I manage the WebDriver work at Mozilla making Firefox work with Selenium. I can categorically State we haven’t killed Selenium. We, over the last few years, have invested more in Selenium than other browsers.

Selenium IDE no longer works in Firefox for a number of reasons; 1) Selenium IDE didn’t have a maintainer 2) Selenium IDE is a Firefox add on and Mozilla changed how adding worked. They did this for numerous security reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping? by CGamesPlay on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:09PM (#15699142)
My apologies, I was mistaken, but I can't edit my post now. It looks like the selenium code has moved into something called geckodriver, which I suppose is a wrapper around the underlying Marionette protocol.
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