Designing the new Selenium IDE

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Selenium IDE is rebuilt as a web extension with over 3 million downloads (Mozilla only), ~150,000 weekly users and ~1,000 daily installs, and ~20,000 legacy users still on the old XPI. It implements locator fallback across recorded selectors, adds native control flow blocks (loops, ifs, call test), supports plugin-style commands and locators, and runs tests in CI via a Node-based selenium-side-runner that executes tests over WebDriver (Chromedriver demo works) with parallelization and language export.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:24DARK MODE
3. 4:18Lots of people use the IDE
4. 5:28Selenium IDE enables all testers
5. 7:34Prime opportunity to rewrite the IDE
6. 13:27Reinventing the IDE
7. 14:18Locator Fallback
8. 14:42Plugins
9. 15:46Axing user-extensions.js
10. 17:24Commands
11. 18:45Locators
12. 19:50Control Flow
13. 24:11Interpreted using Node
14. 24:59really cool demo
15. 27:06Playback on WebDriver

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