Is Selenium 3 6 0 webdriver new FirefoxDriver capabilities - deprecated

Question

Since upgrading to the latest version of Selenium the following code seems to be deprecated:

Selenium 3.6.0 & webdriver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities) - deprecated? 

Full code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", Base_Page.getConstant(Constant.GECKO_DRIVER_DIRECTORY));

DesiredCapabilities capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.firefox();

capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);

webdriver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);   //deprecated

Answer 1

Check this out:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/master/rb/CHANGES

3.4.1 (2017-06-13)

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Firefox:

  * Added new Firefox::Options class that should be used to customize browser

    behavior (command line arguments, profile, preferences, Firefox binary, etc.).

    The instance of options class can be passed to driver initialization using

    :options key. Old way of passing these customization directly to driver

    initialization is deprecated.

From the 3.4.1 version onwards, the FirefoxOptions should be used.