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culebrón
culebrón

Reputation: 36453

Selenium runs the wrong browser (default)

tl/dr: What am I doing wrong?

I'm trying to run selenium tests locally and be compatible with Browserstack platform. I use this code to connect locally:

wd = webdriver.Remote('http://[email protected]:80/wd/hub', {'browser':'firefox'})
wd.get('http://google.com')
wd.get_screenshot_as_file('/tmp/googl.png')
wd.close()

I see a good screenshot in /tmp/.

Now I try to do the same with local Selenium:

$ java -jar /usr/share/java/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar &

The server starts nominally. I try creating a session with Firefox (30.0), it works correctly. (Default browser is Opera.)

Then I try to run Python code:

wd = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub', {'browser':'firefox'})
wd.get('http://google.com')
wd.get_screenshot_as_file('/tmp/googl2.png')
wd.close()

Selenium opens Opera instead of Firefox. enter image description here

I see this in Python console:

Message: <html>
<head>
<title>Error 500 org/json/JSONObject</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTTP ERROR: 500</h2><pre>org/json/JSONObject</pre>
<p>RequestURI=/wd/hub/session</p>
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Why does it open Opera instead of Firefox?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 633

Answers (2)

Alexander Salykin
Alexander Salykin

Reputation: 163

Another solution (very close to the accepted answer) is to use predefined DesiredCapabilities constants:

from selenium import webdriver

capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX.copy()
wd = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub', desired_capabilities=capabilities)

In this case capabilities is a dict already containing browserName property set to firefox.

Upvotes: 0

Joel
Joel

Reputation: 23827

The problem is in this line:

wd = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub', {'browser':'firefox'})

Changing browser to browserName will fix it. Use

wd = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub', {'browserName':'firefox'})

instead.

Upvotes: 3

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