dropping safari support in the ATH

[James Nord]

Hi all,

I have been spending some time reworking (removing) the sticky element disabler (aka Scroller) in the ATH. (https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/pull/2713) 

The main benifit is that we do not need to run javascript at the start of each page load, which needed to happen not just on page load, but on a dialog load now in various places.

This JS running hid various timing issues where PageObjects/test etc blindly assumed that a webelement was on screen and visible.

removing this artificial slow down has revealed several timing issues that I have fixed in various places in the ATH.

So this is all golden, however the new way relies on WebDriver Bi-Directoional support from the browser, and Safari has no usable implementation of this.

I don't think anyone uses Safari to driver the ATH, and for those that do I would suggest quickly switching to firefox which is (currently) the only browser we run the ATH on for its own tests.

Does anyone have any objections to dropping Safari support here?

/James

[Mark Waite]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM James Nord wrote:

Does anyone have any objections to dropping Safari support here?

No objection from me. 

Mark Waite

[Tim Jacomb]

I doubt anyone is using safari, fine to drop from my PoV

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[Ullrich Hafner]

No, in my UI tests I am only using Chrome and Firefox.

[Jan Faracik]

Sounds good to me.

Thanks!

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[Alexander Brandes]

Sounds good to me as well.

[Jenkins Developers]

Sounds good to me as well.

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