This documentation previously located on the wiki You can read more about Grid 2 Selenium Grid Platforms This section describes the PLATFORM option used in configuring Selenium Grid Nodes and [DesiredCapabilities] object. History of Platforms When requesting a new WebDriver session from the Grid, user can specify the [DesiredCapabilities] of the remote browser. Things such as the browser name, version, and platform are among the list of options that can be specified by the test.