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I am trying to find a full list of Selenium RC browser launchers. So far I've not been able to find any documentation that lists them all. I've gathered the following ones from various sources.

  • *iexplore - Launches IE
  • *firefox - Launches Firefox
  • *safari - Launches Safari
  • *opera - Launches Opera
  • *googlechrome - Launches Google Chrome
  • *chrome - Launches special Firefox profile with elevated security privileges, to bypass Javascript security errors
  • *iehta - Launches IE with elevated security privileges
  • *piiexplore - Launches IE in proxy injection mode
  • *pifirefox - Launches Firefox in proxy injection mode
  • *custom - Launches your own custom browser executable

Are there any others lurking out there? Is there any source of documentation on how each one is used?

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If you provide the wrong browser id and try to start a selenium session, like the one shown below:

selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", server.getPort(), "*gf", "http://www.eviltester.com");

Then selenium 1.0.3 will report the following list: 

Supported browsers include:

firefox

mock

firefoxproxy

pifirefox

chrome

iexploreproxy

iexplore

firefox3

safariproxy

googlechrome

konqueror

firefox2

safari

piiexplore

firefoxchrome

opera

iehta

custom

This lists a few more than you have.

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