On: Firefox 56 supports headless mode on Windows

[zlagen]

Do you need to use selenium to control Firefox in headless mode or does it have something lower level like Chrome's devtools protocol?

[masklinn → zlagen]

1. You can use the WebDriver protocol[0] without selenium

2. Firefox's WebDriver endpoint geckodriver[1] is a layer above Firefox/Gecko's native Marionette protocol[2]

So you doubly don't need to use selenium, you can write your own WebDriver client (which should be cross-browser assuming the browsers either support WebDriver natively or have a WD layer of some sort installed) or you can use raw Marionette (either a hand-rolled client or an existing client)

[0] https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html#protocol

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionet...

[codefined → zlagen]

You can use use WebDriver/GeckoDriver[0], which is how Selenium actually runs, but most people like the abstraction layer.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver

[brendandahl → zlagen]

Patch author here: To add to the other comments, you could also use SlimerJS[1]. Though I don't know if I'd consider that lower level. We're open to supporting other ways of controlling FIrefox and have been gauging feedback on what to support.

[1]https://slimerjs.org/