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Reputation: 7692

Selenium starts Firefox but I get a time out

When I ran my Selenium tests a year ago they worked.
I have since then updated Selenium and Firefox.

Now when I start a test, it fails already at 

driver = new FirefoxDriver()

with a
...TargetInvocationException...--->
OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://localhost:51672/session timed out after 60 seconds.

Why? Work around?

Firefox starts but nothing loads. The port number (51672) is new for every run.

( I guess downgrading Selenium and FF to their respective older versions, whatever they were, would solve the problem; but that is not a way forward. I also have a vague memory of, earlier, having an old version of Se or FF because it wouldn't work otherwise. )

I have Windows10 x64, Firefox quantum 57.0.4 (64-bit), Selenium v.3.8 and dotnet 4.6.1.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1285

Answers (1)

so cal cheesehead
so cal cheesehead

Reputation: 2573

Since Selenium 3.0 you also need to download the geckodriver.exe from the below url as per your system configuration.

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Then you can try something like this:

//Give the path of the geckodriver.exe    
FirefoxDriverService service = FirefoxDriverService.CreateDefaultService(@"C:\Users\abcd\Downloads\geckodriver-v0.13.0-win64","geckodriver.exe")

//Give the path of the Firefox Browser        
service.FirefoxBinaryPath = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe";

IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(service);
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.google.com");

You may need to or there's ways to specify the geckodriver as an environment variable as well.

Upvotes: 1

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