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Bug 25148 - Provide ability to change a mutable capability value "on the fly"
Summary: Provide ability to change a mutable capability value "on the fly"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Browser Test/Tools WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebDriver (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Browser Testing and Tools WG
QA Contact: Browser Testing and Tools WG
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Blocks: 20860
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Reported: 2014-03-25 20:38 UTC by Alexei Barantsev
Modified: 2014-07-07 15:50 UTC (History)
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Description Alexei Barantsev 2014-03-25 20:38:21 UTC 
Provide ability to change a mutable capability value in a running session.

Use cases:
-- temporarily enable/disable native events to perform a critical action;
-- temporarily set unhandled alert behaviour to accept/dismiss for a sinle alert;
-- temporarily change scrolling behaviour to top/bottom for a page with a sticky elements;
-- temporarily change page loading strategy for a single page with long-loading resources.

See also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/selenium-developers/ttPmfo0K7Ho
Comment 1 David Burns :automatedtester 2014-05-15 21:17:47 UTC 
Mutable Capabilities were removed from the spec so closing this bug
Comment 2 David Burns :automatedtester 2014-05-15 22:12:07 UTC 
Defering to F2F at request
Comment 3 David Burns :automatedtester 2014-07-07 15:50:08 UTC 
Was discussed and will not allow this.