Selenium 3.0 Firefx Driver fails with org.openqa.s

Question

Selenium 3.0 Firefx Driver fails with org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session.

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "..<Path>../geckodriver.exe");
capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);


Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{marionette=true, firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@23aa363a, browserName=firefox, moz:firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@23aa363a, version=, platform=ANY}], required capabilities = Capabilities [{}]
Build info: version: '3.0.0', revision: '350cf60', time: '2016-10-13 10:48:57 -0700'
System info: host: 'D202540', ip: '10.22.19.193', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:91)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:601)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:241)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:128)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:259)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:247)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:242)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:135)

Answer 1

Same problem here. It was solved opening Eclipse/Netbeans with admin privileges.

Answer 2

This worked (linux mint, opensuse thumbleweed, win7) with

libraryDependencies += "org.seleniumhq.selenium" % "selenium-firefox-driver" % "3.0.1"

geckodriver.exe -V geckodriver 0.13.0

if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().contains("linux")) {
  println("загружены настройки os.name=linux")
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "bin/chromedriver")
  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "bin/geckodriver")

}else{
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "bin\\chromedriver.exe")
  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "bin\\geckodriver.exe")
  System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "bin\\IEDriverServer.exe")
  System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Web Driver\\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe")
  System.setProperty("webdriver.opera.driver", "c:\\XXX\\operadriver.exe")

  System.setProperty("webdriver.opera.path","""C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Opera""")
  System.setProperty("webdriver.opera.binary","""C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Opera\\launcher.exe""")
  //
}

...

      case
        "firefox" => {
        println(" подгружаем Веб-драйвер: geckodriver")
        //iniprofile = new ProfilesIni()
        //ffprofile = iniprofile.getProfile("default")
        dc = DesiredCapabilities.firefox()
        dc.setCapability("gecko", true) // как выйдет драйвер, так и установить
//        dc.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, ffprofile); //FirefoxDriver.PROFILE = “firefox_profile”;
        remote = new FirefoxDriver(dc)
      }

but, for Remotewebdriver-connection if previous session failed,cancelled or aborted we get error:

[info] XXXX.E011_WebDB6292 *** ABORTED ***
[info]   org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Session is already started (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
[info] Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds
[info] Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:49:13 -0700'
[info] System info: host: 'XXXX', ip: '172.16.4.125', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_11'
[info] Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
[info]   at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

Answer 3

this issue is solved with geckodriver 0.15 and selenium 3.3 version.

Answer 4

Alternatively if you dont want to download the Gecko driver, you can downgrade the Firefox version to 44.

https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-and-Update/Install-an-older-version-of-Firefox/ta-p/1564

Answer 5

I ran into the same problem today, and it appears that not being admin on my laptop is actually an issue. To resolve it

• Install in a non admin way Firefox (just need to click on no when Windows ask for privilege elevation)

• Use the exe path (for my system something like C:\\Users\\MyUserName\\AppData\\Local\\MozillaFirefox\\firefox.exe).

  It actually solved the issue.

Answer 6

I had the same problem and fixed it with this. It seems it could not find the firefox binary

capabilities.setCapability("firefox_binary","C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe");