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All About Desired Capabilities

Explore the concept of desired capabilities in Selenium WebDriver to configure browser instances effectively. Understand how to set browser-specific options for Chrome and Firefox, such as running in headless mode, accepting SSL certificates, and adding extensions. This lesson helps you customize browser settings for automated UI testing.

Introduction #

Desired capabilities is a collection of key/value pairs used to configure a particular instance of the browser. It helps to set the properties or capabilities of a WebDriver. There are browser-independent capabilities like browser name, version, acceptSslCerts, etc and browser-specific capabilities like FirefoxOptions for Mozilla Firefox, and ChromeOptions for Chrome.

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