Why doesn't the browser plugin look the same when you run your open source project locally? The first screenshot shows how it looks when you add the selenium-IDE plugin to your browser。The second graph is the effect of running your source code in local IDEA. Why are these two effects different?

[fenglangjuxu-gansu]

[fenglangjuxu-gansu]

[beerwin]

@fenglangjuxu-gansu : The browser plugin is version 3.x of the IDE. The source code is for the new version 4.x of the IDE, which is no longer a browser plugin but a standalone application. You should use the latter as it looks stable enough to build tests with it.

[fenglangjuxu-gansu]

@fenglangjuxu-gansu : The browser plugin is version 3.x of the IDE. The source code is for the new version 4.x of the IDE, which is no longer a browser plugin but a standalone application. You should use the latter as it looks stable enough to build tests with it. Thank you very much for your answer. You mean I should use this source code to run the tests locally, right? However, I saw that most of the time the source code was committing new code to the trunk branch. Every time I pulled the new code, the local screen and functionality were always different when I launched it through the IDEA tool. So how do I use it?

[beerwin]

@fenglangjuxu-gansu The source code is for Selenium IDE developers/contributors. The best way to use Selenium IDE is to install it via npm. You need at least NodeJS 16.x to install it.

[fenglangjuxu-gansu]

@fenglangjuxu-gansu The source code is for Selenium IDE developers/contributors. The best way to use Selenium IDE is to install it via npm. You need at least NodeJS 16.x to install it. Thank you again for your answer. I am a software developer. I want to use Selenium IDE to implement the recording and playback functions of the browser test process. I do not implement it through npm installation. Instead, I pull the source code to local startup to realize these two functions. In this way, you can Does it feel feasible? Is this method better than installing a browser plug-in? My job task is to develop a browser test process recording and playback function, rather than using software that has been developed by others.

[toddtarsi]

Yes, I am going to keep refining v4. V3 (webex) is unfortunately on borrowed time. There is a change set to the permission model of web extensions called manifest v3 that will be going out this year. This will disable web extensions from executing arbitrary code. A core aspect of tools like these are allowing for user supplied code snippets to be executed to make comparisons and store variables and obtain non-standard attributes and stuff, and there's basically no way to do that as a web extension anymore.

Regardless, v4 does a ton for improving user experience regardless. Local v remote playback is a ton more consistent, and the plugin interaction is vastly simplified. Although there is still some polishing that needs done. Please let me know any issues you encounter @fenglangjuxu-gansu.

@beerwin - Thank you for your help here!

[toddtarsi]

For now, I am going to close this. Thank you for opening it @fenglangjuxu-gansu and please let me know if I can help with anything.

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