Difference between get() and navigate() in selenium webdriver

Difference between get() and navigate() in selenium web driver:
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driver.get("URL"):
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get() is a method to enter a url
GET will wait till the whole page gets loaded.
The first thing you’ll want to do with WebDriver is navigate to a page. The normal way to do this is by calling get:

syntax:
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driver.get("http://www.google.com");

Webdriver will wait until the page has fully loaded before returning the control to test or script.


driver.navigate().to("URL"):
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NAVIGATE will just redirect to our required page and will not wait.
It will guide us through the history like refresh, back, forward


syntax:
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driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

driver.navigate().forward();

driver.navigate().back();


driver.navigate().refresh();

Example on get() and navigate():

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package blog;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterSuite;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class RightClickDemo {

WebDriver webDriver;

Actions actions;

@BeforeSuite

public void launchingIEBrowser() {

//System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Ramesh\\ChromeDriver.exe");

  // webDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

webDriver=new FirefoxDriver();

webDriver.manage().window().maximize();

webDriver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

webDriver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(45, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

}

@Test

public void testScript() throws InterruptedException {

//using get() method

webDriver.get("https://google.com");

//using navigate() mechanism

webDriver.navigate().to("https://google.com");

webDriver.navigate().refresh();

webDriver.navigate().back();

webDriver.navigate().forward();

webDriver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("selenium by ramesh");

webDriver.findElement(By.name("btnG")).click();

Thread.sleep(3000);

WebElement element =webDriver.findElement(By.linkText("Selenium By Ramesh Anapati"));

  actions = new Actions(webDriver);

  //going to open in new window

 // actions.contextClick(element).sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN).sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN).build().perform();

  

  //going to open in same window but in new tab

  actions.contextClick(element).sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN).build().perform();

  

  Thread.sleep(10000);

}

@AfterSuite

public void closeBrowser() {

webDriver.quit();

}

}