{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Security on Selenium","link":"https:\/\/www.selenium.dev\/categories\/security\/","description":"Recent content in Security on Selenium","generator":"Hugo","language":"en","lastBuildDate":"Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:46:23 +0200","item":{"title":"A Curious Case of Selenium Manager Usage: What's Behind Chrome 127.0.6533.99?","link":"https:\/\/www.selenium.dev\/blog\/2025\/selenium_manager_usage_whats_behind_chrome_127.0.6533.99\/","pubDate":"Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/www.selenium.dev\/blog\/2025\/selenium_manager_usage_whats_behind_chrome_127.0.6533.99\/","description":"<p>Over the past two years, Selenium has included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selenium.dev\/documentation\/selenium_manager\/\">Selenium Manager<\/a>, a CLI tool (written in Rust) that provides <strong>automatic management of drivers and browsers<\/strong> across all official language bindings (Java, JavaScript, Python, .NET, and Ruby). Its purpose is to simplify the developer experience: if you create a driver object like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"highlight\"><pre tabindex=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#f8f8f8;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;\"><code class=\"language-java\" data-lang=\"java\"><span style=\"display:flex;\"><span><span style=\"color:#000\">WebDriver<\/span><span style=\"color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"color:#000\">driver<\/span><span style=\"color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"color:#ce5c00;font-weight:bold\">=<\/span><span style=\"color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"color:#204a87;font-weight:bold\">new<\/span><span style=\"color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"color:#000\">ChromeDriver<\/span><span style=\"color:#000;font-weight:bold\">();<\/span><span style=\"color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline\">\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div><p>Selenium Manager takes care of detecting whether Chrome is installed, downloading the required driver, and even provisioning a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/googlechromelabs.github.io\/chrome-for-testing\/\">Chrome for Testing (CfT)<\/a> if Chrome is not present on the system. This also works for Firefox and Edge, on Windows, Linux, and macOS.<\/p>"}}}