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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition
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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

by Mark Collin
June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
8h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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What happened to GhostDriver?

You may have noticed that I haven't mentioned GhostDriver or PhantomJS at all in the headless section. That's because PhatomJS is no longer under active development and GhostDriver no longer has a core maintainer. PhantomJS is still available and it's possible to get GhostDriver up and running. However, you are then testing with these issues:

  • An out-of-date rendering engine (an old version of QTWebkit)
  • A JavaScript engine that is not used in any of the major browsers
  • A tool that is not completely thread safe

With the release of headless modes from ChromeDriver and FirefoxDriver, it just doesn't make sense to keep using PhantomJS. It was great in its heyday, but it just not a useful tool to use with Selenium ...

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