Difference between geckodriver and marionette

Question

I don't fully understand the difference between geckodriver and marionette.

For example, when I use Selenium WebDriver to control a Firefox browser, I need a geckodriver binary to listen the WebDriver protocol from Selenium.

Did you read the pages you linked? It states pretty clearly what they are. — JeffC, Mar 22 '17 at 20:31
I did, and obviously it is not clear for me (for that reason I am asking) — Boni García, Mar 27 '17 at 09:43

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '17 at 08:42

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Selenium uses W3C Webdriver protocol to send requests to Geckodriver, which translates them and uses Marionette protocol to send them to Firefox

Selenium<--(W3C Webdriver)-->Geckodriver<---(Marionette)--->Firefox

answered Jun 06 '17 at 08:42

Danio

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