[Giroflex]

> Since the official announcement of Chrome Headless, many of the industry standard libraries for automated testing have been discontinued by their maintainers. The prominent of these are PhantomJS and Selenium IDE for Firefox.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm notm mistaken Selenium IDE has been discontinued due to lack of mantainers, and that has little if any relation to Chrome Headless.

The IDE is just a more effective way of programming test behavior; the Selenium webdriver is still up and working with straight code (as is the case of this tutorial).

[coolio222]

Which is kind of sad. No Chrome Headless library supports dowloading of files.

[jaxn]

Related or not, it seems like a valid point.

We switched to chrome headless after a post from thoughtbot made me question Capybara-WebKit's future.

[escap]

Selenium IDE was discontinued due to the change of extension (from XPI to WebExtension) in Firefox. Nothing to do with Chrome Headless.

see https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-s... and associated HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15061605

[tw21]

Plus, there are already new IDEs showing up, for example https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kantu-browser-auto...

[emadehsan]

You are right! Also the discontinuation has no relation to Chrome Headless as far as I know.

I have updated the article so it doesn't seem like the two events are related.

[kyriakos]

There's still nothing equivalent to selenium ide for chrome headless.