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Run Selenium tests more easily with automatic installation and updates for all supported webdrivers.

## Update: Selenium Manager
## Update: Future of this Project

Selenium is working to make all 3rd party driver managers obsolete with a single solution that works in all
languages. The new Selenium Manager is [still in beta](https://github.com/orgs/SeleniumHQ/projects/5),
but if you are using Selenium 4.6+ you may not need this gem.
With Google's new Chrome for Testing project, a number of things have changed that affect this project.

The current logic (as of Selenium 4.8) determines driver path in this order:
* Specified in a `Service` constructor provided as an argument in the `Driver` constructor
* Specified by `driver_path` attribute accessor for the `Service` class (which is what this gem does)
* Located in a directory included in the `PATH` environment variable
* Located in the directory Selenium Manager has downloaded it to

If you don't have any drivers in locations on `PATH`, you can try not requiring this gem and see if you still need it.
Selenium 4.11 implements driver management (and more!) in a more maintainable way than this gem
with the new [Selenium Manager](https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/selenium_manager/).

If you can update to Selenium 4.11, please do so and stop requiring this gem.
Please provide feedback or raise issues with [Selenium Project](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/new/choose)

If you cannot update to Selenium 4.11 but are using Selenium 4, the next release of this gem should provide
proper support for downloading Chromedriver 115+.

If you cannot update to Selenium 4, you can set the required version of chromedriver to v114
(`Webdrivers.required_version = '114.0.5735.90'`) and
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[Disable the build check](https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/browsers/chrome/#disabling-build-check).
This is not guaranteed to continue working and will not receive bug fixes. The goal is to have a
Webdrivers 6 that provides support for older versions of Ruby and Selenium.

The current plan:

**Webdrivers 5.3.0**
* Merge https://github.com/titusfortner/webdrivers/pull/249 to get a basic fix
* Set the maximum Selenium version to 4.10

**Webdrivers 5.3.1**
* add a `#post_install_message` telling people to update to Selenium 4.11 and not to require this gem

**Webdrivers 6.0**
* create a `selenium-manager.gem` based off of https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/12429
* re-implement this gem to wrap `selenium-manager.gem`
* make this gem less restrictive to versions of Selenium / Ruby


## Description

`webdrivers` downloads drivers and directs Selenium to use them. Currently supports:
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