[🐛 Bug]: SM Electron does not honor --browser-version when fetching driver

[titusfortner]

Description

Selenium Manager's Electron driver fetch ignores --browser-version. The URL is always built from the /releases/latest redirect, so the user-requested Electron version never selects the matching release's chromedriver asset.

The version is only used as a metadata cache key — not for selecting which release to download.

Relevant Code

• rust/src/electron.rs:124-130 — request_driver_version() always reads read_redirect_from_link(latest_url, ...), discarding any requested version.
• rust/src/electron.rs:150-163 — get_driver_url() then formats the URL using whatever get_driver_version() returned (always latest).

Expected: when --browser-version 29.1.4 (or major like 29) is supplied, fetch the matching release's chromedriver asset from https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v<version>/chromedriver-v<version>-<platform>.zip.

Reproducible Code

./selenium-manager --browser electron --browser-version 29.0.0 --debug

Observe that the driver downloaded is from the latest Electron release, not 29.0.0.

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