Marionette

Marionette is a remote protocol that lets out-of-process programs communicate with, instrument, and control Gecko-based browsers.

It provides interfaces for interacting with both the internal JavaScript runtime and UI elements of Gecko-based browsers, such as Firefox and Fennec. It can control both the chrome- and content documents, giving a high level of control and ability to emulate user interaction.

Within the central tree, Marionette is used in most TaskCluster test jobs to instrument Gecko. It can additionally be used to write different kinds of functional tests:

• The Marionette Python client is used in the Mn job, which is generally what you want to use for interacting with web documents

Outside the tree, Marionette is used by geckodriver to implement WebDriver.

Marionette supports to various degrees all the Gecko based applications, including Firefox, Thunderbird, Fennec, and Fenix.

Some further documentation can be found here:

• Introduction to Marionette
• Building
• Mn Python tests
• Protocol
• Contributing
• New contributors
• Submitting patches
• Debugging
• Testing
• Testing with one-click loaners
• Style guide
• Selenium atoms
• Preferences

Bugs

Bugs are tracked in the Testing :: Marionette component.

Communication

The mailing list for Marionette discussion is https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-webdriver.

If you prefer real-time chat, ask your questions on #webdriver:mozilla.org.