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No, this has been in the works for a while

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338004

So not in reaction to Chrome.

In fact, the first attempt for this was almost a decade ago (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446591)



Thanks for the info, that's good news.


Or you could look at as really bad news if it takes a decade to implement this.


I mean, Selenium has worked for Firefox for years so it's not like this was a priority.

It's a decade to decide this is worth doing, which is reasonable given that there's also a "good enough" solution out there; Selenium.


Good enough to be the W3C standard. https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/




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