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I'd like to announce that we've made some new binaries of WebDriver available. What does this cornucopia of goodness bring you?

• "Zero install". Just drop the JARs into your project to get going. No installing DLLs or setting up Firefox profiles is needed.
• DOM navigation: use a WebElement as the start of another search for elements
• Better IE support
• Faster XPath in IE
• Easy custom profile support in Firefox

That last feature may need a little explanation, so perhaps an example of how to create a new Firefox profile on the fly would help:

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.addExtension(new File("/path/to/an.xpi"));
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

I use this to install Firebug because it's sometimes useful to have it around when debugging. You can probably imagine a host of different extensions you'd like to use too.

The binaries are available from the Google Code site. If you'd like help getting to grips with them, the wiki may help and there's also a mailing list and group available: we're a friendly bunch, and new users are welcomed!