mozilla/geckodriver v0.36.0

0.36.0

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0.36.0 (2025-02-25, a3d508507022)

Known problems

• Startup hang with Firefox running in a container (e.g. snap, flatpak):

  When Firefox is packaged inside a container (like the default Firefox browser
  shipped with Ubuntu 22.04), it may see a different filesystem to the host.
  This can affect access to the generated profile directory, which may result
  in a hang when starting Firefox. Workarounds are listed in the geckodriver
  usage documentation.

Added

• Support for searching the Firefox Developer Edition’s default path on macOS.

  Implemented by Gatlin Newhouse.

• Ability to push a WebExtension archive as created from a base64 encoded string
  to an Android device.

• Added an allowPrivateBrowsing field for POST /session/{session id}/moz/addon/install
  to allow the installation of a WebExtension that is enabled in Private Browsing mode.

• Introduced the --allow-system-access command line argument for geckodriver, which will
  be required for future versions of Firefox (potentially starting with 138.0) to allow
  testing in the chrome context.

• Added support for preserving crash dumps for crash report analysis when
  Firefox crashes. If the MINIDUMP_SAVE_PATH environment variable is set
  to an existing folder, crash dumps will be saved accordingly. For mobile
  devices, the generated minidump files will be automatically transferred
  to the host machine.

  For more details see the documentation of how to handle crash reports.

Changed

• Updated the type of the x and y fields of pointer move actions (mouse and touch)
  from integer to fractional numbers to ensure a more precise input control.

• Replaced serde_yaml with yaml-rust because it's no longer officially supported.

• The --enable-crash-reporter command line argument has been deprecated to
  prevent crash reports from being submitted to Socorro. This argument will be
  completely removed in the next version.

  Instead, use the MINIDUMP_SAVE_PATH environment variable to get minidump
  files saved to a specified location.

Fixed

• Fixed route registration for WebAuthn commands, which were introduced in
  geckodriver 0.34.0 but mistakenly registered under /sessions/ instead of
  /session/, causing them to be non-functional.

Removed

• Removed the -no-remote command-line argument usage for Firefox, which does no longer exist.