# Is watir web driver thread safe?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-watir-web-driver-thread-safe/223538>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 8, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-watir-web-driver-thread-safe/223538 "2012-10-08T22:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-watir-web-driver-thread-safe/223538/1 "2012-10-08T22:36:32Z")

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My subject is the question.

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**Author:** ![proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/proggrammer)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-watir-web-driver-thread-safe/223538/2 "2012-10-09T04:24:01Z")

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What research have you done towards finding an answer? I don’t want to  
duplicate your efforts.

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**Author:** ![proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/proggrammer)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-watir-web-driver-thread-safe/223538/3 "2012-10-10T10:35:10Z")

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I have got that selenium is not thread safe… but what about  
watir-webdriver?

Reference:

> **[GitHub - SeleniumHQ/selenium-google-code-issue-archive: Archive, please see...](https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium-google-code-issue-archive)**
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> Archive, please see main selenium repo. Contribute to SeleniumHQ/selenium-google-code-issue-archive development by creating an account on GitHub.

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**Author:** ![proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/proggrammer)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-watir-web-driver-thread-safe/223538/4 "2012-10-15T14:03:54Z")

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On Windows mine is in:  
C:\Ruby193\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\watir-webdriver-0.6.1

So you’ll just need the appropriate directory tree in relation to your  
Ruby install.

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**Author:** ![proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@proggrammer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/proggrammer)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-watir-web-driver-thread-safe/223538/5 "2012-10-10T15:24:39Z")

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Where is the path of @browser=Watir::Browser.new in ubuntu?

So that I can dig into the code, what is happening?