Selenium supports automation of all the major browsers in the market through the use of _WebDriver_. WebDriver is an API and protocol that defines a language-neutral interface for controlling the behaviour of web browsers. Each browser is backed by a specific WebDriver implementation, called a _driver_. The driver is the component responsible for delegating down to the browser, and handles communication to and from Selenium and the browser.

WebDriver drives a browser natively, as a user would, either locally or on a remote machine using the Selenium server, marks a leap forward in terms of browser automation.

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