# Selenium IDE

> Selenium Record and Playback tool for ease of getting acquainted with Selenium WebDriver.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/selenium\_ide](https://chrome-stats.com/d/selenium_ide)

## Overview

- **ID:** `selenium_ide`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Selenium IDE
- **Category:** download-management,bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 495
- **Weekly downloads:** 24
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.17.4
- **Last updated:** 2022-09-04
- **First published:** 2022-09-03
- **Size:** 4.01 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/selenium_ide/)

## Description

Selenium IDE is a Chrome extension designed to simplify the process of learning Selenium WebDriver. It provides an intuitive record and playback tool allowing users to easily create and run test automation scripts without prior coding experience. This makes it ideal for beginners and those wanting to speed up test script development. With Selenium IDE, users can capture interactions within the browser automatically and replay tests seamlessly, enabling efficient web application testing and debugging.

## Rankings

- #5,038 — Overall
- #162 — Bookmarks
- #33 — sell
- #236 — record

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `downloads`
- `webNavigation`
- `storage`
- `debugger`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows for debugging of other web apps and extensions, which can intersect with sensitive information and security boundaries.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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