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WebdriverIO Version

9.4.1

Node.js Version

22

Mode

Standalone Mode

Which capabilities are you using?

{
  capabilities: {
    alwaysMatch: {
      browserName: 'MozillaFirefox',
      platformName: 'linux',
      'appium:automationName': 'Gecko',
      webSocketUrl: true,
      unhandledPromptBehavior: 'ignore'
    },
    firstMatch: [ {} ]
  }
}

What happened?

After WDIO upgrade to 9.4.1 session creation with safaridriver or geckdriver@Android always fails. I assume this happens because of the context check call, which is not supported by these drivers.

See

• https://github.com/appium/appium-geckodriver/actions/runs/12138841083/job/33845133024?pr=123
• https://github.com/appium/appium-safari-driver/actions/runs/12138808640/job/33845033745?pr=130

for more details

What is your expected behavior?

It should be possible to create a session same way it was working in previous wdio versions.

How to reproduce the bug.

Just run the corresponding pipeline

Relevant log output

See the links above

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Is there an existing issue for this?

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