Bug: Webdriver does not check the browser version!

[Elmue]

There is a severe bug in the webdriver. It does not check the browser version and does not throw any error if one tries to automate an old browser.

Example: You have Opera version 39.

Before I used Opera Driver version 2.36 which gave at least a nonsene error message: "session not created exception: Opera version must be >= 63.0.3239.0" This message was wrong because Opera 63 does not exist.

But if you use Opera Driver 2.40 it is even worse: You don't get ANY error message. After 60 seconds you will run into a timeout without ANY usefull information for the user WHY this happens.

TODO: The Opera Driver must check the browser version and return an error message which makes sense. I dont understand why such a basic thing as checkiong the browser version is not implemented !