Why geckodriver does not allow multiple sessions?

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https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/192730-webdriver-udf-help-support/page/15/

I see the following error below on the above page.

{"value":{"error":"session not created","message":"Session is already started","stacktrace":""}}

But chromedriver does allow multiple sessions. Why geckodriver does not allow multiple sessions. How to make geckodriver allow multiple sessions without using multiple ports?

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[whimboo]

geckodriver is WebDriver specification conformant, which defines that there can only be a single WebDriver HTTP session active. Internally it doesn't act as a proxy supporting multiplexing. As such you will have to start dedicated geckodriver instances for each and every job you want to run.

Closing because this is by design.