Diffrence between opening a browser/site through selenium and Manually

[SS]

I have started learning selenium Webdriver API recently. I was trying to automate a simple task of launching gmail.com and logging into account using Chrome browser. The difference I noticed is when I open browser manually it lists my accounts on the Home page and then I can select the account, enter the password and login in complete When I launch gmail.com using selenium it directly gives me log in window when I can enter email and password Any reason why we see the difference while launching browser through selenium

[THRINATH]

Selenium always open new/fresh browser. that's why you can't see any history/cookie data!

Thanks

Thrinath

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Regards,

Thirnath

[David]

I'd also state that that also depends on browser type. Not all the browsers fully/effectively implement the clean sessions (fresh browser) by default. You can expect this of Firefox, and I believe Chrome.

Safari and IE require some startup options to effectively provide that fresh browser state. So in default mode, you may witness the history/cookie data for those.