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What do we mean by Selenium 1, Selenium 2 and Selenium 3?
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Selenium 1, Selenium 2 and Selenium 3 are the different versions of Selenium which got released into the market so far: (As of May 06 2019)
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- > Selenium 1
- – Selenium 1 got released into the market in 2006
- – Selenium 1 = Selenium IDE + Selenium RC + Selenium Grid
- > Selenium 2
- – Selenium 2 got released into the market in 2011
- – Selenium 2 = Selenium IDE + Selenium WebDriver 2.x + Selenium Grid
- – Selenium WebDriver used native way to communicate with the browsers
- – Selenium WebDriver reduced the need for starting an RC server before executing the scripts
- – Support for Selenium RC scripts for their execution in Selenium WebDriver was provided
- > Selenium 3
- – Selenium 3 got released into the market in 2016
- – Selenium 3 = Selenium IDE + Selenium WebDriver 3.x + Selenium Grid
- – Removed the support for Selenium RC scripts
- – Selenium stopped supporting the FirefoxDriver and then moved the responsibilities to Mozilla company which started supporting the native drivers for Firefox i.e. GeckoDriver
- – Selenium stopped supporting the SafariDriver too and Apple started supporting its own native driver SafariDriver for Selenium
- – Microsoft started supporting EdgeDriver along with its previously supporting InternetExplorerDriver
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