How to use the gecko executable with Selenium

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I m using Firefox 47 0 with Selenium 2 53  Recently they have been a bug between Selenium and  Firefox which make code not working  One of the solution is to use the Marionnette driver   I followed the instruction of this site to use this new driver with a RemotWebDriver but I keep having the error       WARN - Exception  Exception in thread  main  org openqa selenium WebDriverException  The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver gecko driver system property  for more information  see https   github com jgraham wires  The latest version can be downloaded from        The code i ve tried so far is very simple    public class Test       static WebDriver driver      static Wait lt WebDriver gt  wait      public static void main String   args  throws MalformedURLException           System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver    C   Selenium  geckodriver exe            DesiredCapabilities cap   DesiredCapabilities firefox            cap setCapability  marionette   true           cap setBrowserName  firefox            driver   new RemoteWebDriver new URL  http   192 168 117 135 5555 wd hub    cap    true to enable the JS         wait   new WebDriverWait driver  3000           final String url    https   www google com             JavascriptExecutor js    JavascriptExecutor  driver           try               driver navigate   to url             finally               driver close                        I m sure that the path to the geckodriver exe is right and i don t see where i did the mistake   EDIT 1  I tried the following code    public class Test       static WebDriver driver      static Wait lt WebDriver gt  wait      public static void main String   args  throws MalformedURLException           System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver    C   Selenium  geckodriver exe             driver   new MarionetteDriver            wait   new WebDriverWait driver  3000           final String url    https   www google com             JavascriptExecutor js    JavascriptExecutor  driver           try               driver navigate   to url             finally               driver close                        and it s working it seems that the problem come from the RemoteWebDriver and the gecko driver  any of you have news on it

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This can be due to system cannot find firefox installed location on path.

Try following code, which should work.

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin","C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"); 
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","<location of geckodriver>\\geckodriver.exe");

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You need to specify the system property with the path the  exe when starting the Selenium server node  See also the accepted anwser to Selenium grid with Chrome driver  WebDriverException  The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver chrome driver system property

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The solutions above work fine for local testing and firing up browsers from the java code If you fancy firing up your selenium grid later then this parameter is a must have in order to tell the remote node where to find the geckodriver   -Dwebdriver gecko driver  C  geckodriver geckodriver exe    The node cannot find the gecko driver when specified in the Automation Java code   So the complete command for the node whould be  assuming node and hub for test purposes live on same machine     java -Dwebdriver gecko driver  C  geckodriver geckodriver exe  -jar selenium-server-standalone-2 53 0 jar -role node -hub http   localhost 4444 grid register   And you should expect to see in the node log    00 35 44 383 INFO - Launching a Selenium Grid node Setting system property webdriver gecko driver to C  geckodriver geckodriver exe

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You can handle the Firefox driver automatically using WebDriverManager  This library downloads the proper binary  geckodriver  for your platform  Mac  Windows  Linux  and then exports the proper value of the required Java environment variable  webdriver gecko driver   Take a look at a complete example as a JUnit test case  public class FirefoxTest      private WebDriver driver      BeforeClass   public static void setupClass         WebDriverManager firefoxdriver   setup            Before   public void setupTest         driver   new FirefoxDriver            After   public void teardown         if  driver    null          driver quit                  Test   public void test            Your test code here        If you are using Maven you have to put at your pom xml   lt dependency gt       lt groupId gt io github bonigarcia lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt webdrivermanager lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 4 3 1 lt  version gt   lt  dependency gt   WebDriverManager does magic for you   It checks for the latest version of the WebDriver binary It downloads the WebDriver binary if it s not present on your system It exports the required WebDriver Java environment variables needed by Selenium  So far  WebDriverManager supports Chrome  Opera  Internet Explorer  Microsoft Edge  PhantomJS  and Firefox

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I create a simple Java application by archetype maven-archetype-quickstar  then revise pom xml    lt project xmlns  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0  xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance      xsi schemaLocation  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0 http   maven apache org xsd maven-4 0 0 xsd  gt       lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt  modelVersion gt       lt groupId gt com example lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt bar lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 0 0 1-SNAPSHOT lt  version gt       lt name gt bar lt  name gt       lt description gt bar lt  description gt        lt dependencies gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt junit lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt junit lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 4 12 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt maven-resources-plugin lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 0 1 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org seleniumhq selenium lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt selenium-java lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 0 0-beta3 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org seleniumhq selenium lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt selenium-server lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 0 0-beta3 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org seleniumhq selenium lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt selenium-api lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 0 0-beta3 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org seleniumhq selenium lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt selenium-firefox-driver lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 3 0 0-beta3 lt  version gt           lt  dependency gt       lt  dependencies gt       lt build gt           lt finalName gt bar lt  finalName gt       lt  build gt   lt  project gt    and  package bar   import java util concurrent TimeUnit   import org openqa selenium WebDriver  import org openqa selenium firefox FirefoxDriver   public class AppTest                   Web driver              private static WebDriver driver   null                  Entry point                  param args         throws InterruptedException             public static void main String   args  throws InterruptedException              Download  geckodriver exe  from https   github com mozilla geckodriver releases         System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver   F   geckodriver exe            driver   new FirefoxDriver            driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS           driver get  http   localhost 8080 foo             String sTitle   driver getTitle            System out println sTitle              You also use on Mac OS X  Linux  https   github com mozilla geckodriver releases  and     On Mac OS X  System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver     Users donhuvy Downloads geckodriver

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Recently Selenium has launched Selenium 3 and if you are trying to use Firefox latest version then you have to use GeckoDriver   System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver   G   Selenium  Firefox driver  geckodriver exe    WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver      You can check full documentation from here

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It is important to remember that the driver file  must have execution permission  linux chmod  x geckodriver    To sum up    Download gecko driver Add execution permission Add system property   System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver    FILE PATH    Instantiate and use the class  WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver    Do whatever you want Close the driver  driver close

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I m using FirefoxOptions class to set the binary location with Firefox 52 0  GeckoDriver v0 15 0 and Selenium 3 3 1 as mentioned in this article  - http   www automationtestinghub com selenium-3-0-launch-firefox-with-geckodriver   The java code that I used -   FirefoxOptions options   new FirefoxOptions    options setBinary  C   Program Files  x86   Mozilla Firefox  firefox exe      location of FF exe  FirefoxDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver options   driver get  http   www google com

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I try to make it simple  You have two options while using Selenium 3     Either upgrade your Firefox to 47 0 1 or higher and use the default geckodriver of Selenium3  Or disable using of geckodriver by specifying marionette to false and use the legacy Firefox driver  a simple command to run selenium is  java -Dwebdriver firefox marionette false -jar selenium-server-standalone-3 0 1 jar  You can also disable using geckodriver from other commands that are mentioned in other answers

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I am also facing the same issue and got the resolution after a day    The exception is coming because System needs Geckodriver to run the Selenium test case  You can try this code under the main Method in Java      System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver   path of geckodriver exe        DesiredCapabilities capabilities DesiredCapabilities firefox        capabilities setCapability  marionette   true       WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver capabilities     For more information You can go to this https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Mozilla QA Marionette WebDriver link   Please let me know if the issue doesn t get resolved

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