Merlin
Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests.

What is Selenium IDE?
Selenium IDE is a Firefox add-on designed to ease website automation, testing, and eliminate the need for manually handling repetitive tasks. It records and plays back tests on Firefox and Chrome, organizes tests into suites for better management, and supports saving and loading of scripts for future use.
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By: Selenium
Rating: 4.32 (379)
Version: 3.17.4 (Last updated: 2022-02-10)
Creation date: 2006-02-14
Weekly download count: 2,067
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
  • downloads
  • webNavigation
  • storage
  • debugger
  • <all_urls>
Size: 4.20M
URLs: Website
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Selenium IDE (v3.17.2)
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Summary
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The new Selenium IDE is designed to record your interactions with websites to help you generate and maintain site automation, tests, and remove the need to manually step through repetitive takes. Features include:

  • Recording and playing back tests on Firefox and Chrome.
  • Organizing tests into suites for easy management.
  • Saving and loading scripts, for later playback.
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Pros
  • Very useful for automating test cases and projects
Cons
  • Shows deprecation components error in devtools console
  • XML not rendered as foldable tree
  • Causes Firefox to hang and become unusable during record
Most mentioned
  • Useful for automation
  • Causes performance issues
  • Display issues with XML rendering
  • Errors in console
  • Firefox hangs
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Safety
Risk impact

Selenium IDE is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Selenium IDE has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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