Selenium IDE is being blocked by Google

[graykathy]

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Per https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline, Google is disabling all extensions using Manifest V2. Mine was just disabled yesterday. I am no longer able to use the Selenium IDE.

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Steps to reproduce the behavior: Open extensions in Google Chrome. Selenium IDE is no longer there

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Environment

OS: Windows 11
Selenium IDE Version: Not sure how to find this information
Selenium SIDE Runner Version:
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Browser: Google Chrome
Browser Version: 131.0.6778.206

[toddtarsi]

Webextension manifest v3 is a bad time for browser automation tools. If you'd like, you can join me on v4 by installing npm and doing this:

npm i -g selenium-ide

I also have binaries available here:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide/releases/tag/v4.0.1-beta.14

They're not code signed so I can't list them in any storefronts. I know it sucks, my deepest apologies.

[toddtarsi]

My tool is janky, my attitude is cranky, my response times are lanky, and my moves are stanky. I haven't looked at my stuff in months. I have a local version that at least makes extending the UX possible via plugins but I need more stabilization and testing and code signing certificates to make it feel solid. That said, I've forced my company into it (thank you 🙇) so it is functional to the extent that you can work pretty solidly if you've written the codebase.

It does support multi drag and drop tho 😭.

[toddtarsi]

Also I think the readme talks a bit about migrating from v3. Some of the commands change to a modern equivalent. For example, storeXPathCount becomes storeElementCount and selector independent, and other such things. There is actually an npm package @seleniumhq/side-migrate which should do this on side projects in a single command.