How to Run Selenium WebDriver in Different Popular Browsers

Selenium is suitable with web-based platforms and necessitates a browser for launching them. Selenium can interact with numerous browsers for automated testing.

In this guide, we delve into the process of configuring drivers for different browsers available in the market.

Three browsers prevalent in today’s industry include Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Yet, Selenium also functions with other browsers. To facilitate our script on different browsers, we must have the driver of that respective browser.

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Installing Drivers for Several Browsers

Recommended Utilities:

#1) CrossBrowserTesting

With CrossBrowserTesting, your existing Selenium scripts can be conveniently executed on over 2050 authentic desktop and mobile browsers. A Record & Replay function also exists that enables recording of a real test, which can be run in parallel later.

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#2) LambdaTest

Carry out Selenium automation tests on a scalable, protected, and reliable online Selenium Grid with LambdaTest. Expand your test coverage by testing on an online infrastructure comprising over 2000 desktop and mobile browser environments.

When we commence with Selenium automation, our first code line appears like so: 

WebDriver driver = new FireFoxDriver ();

This implies that WebDriver is an interface, and we’re establishing a reference variable (driver) of the interface’s type.

Any object designated to it must be an instance of a class (FireFoxDriver) or any other driver that employs that interface. In this case, FireFoxDriver is a class and WebDriver is the interface.

Once the driver installation concludes, we can issue any Selenium command such as:

driver.getTitle ();

See the screenshot below:

Internally, an HTTP request is produced and dispatched to the specific browser driver we defined. The browser driver employs that HTTP server to manage the request and ascertain the procedures essential for implementing the Selenium command.

The logic we created