Cannot find firefox binary in PATH. Make sure firefox is installed. OS appears to be: VISTA

Question

I am not able to run my script in any of the browsers. Below is the error i get for firefox. The location where firefox is installed is correct. Dont know what is wrong.

Answer 1

Try this:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "geckodriver p");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);

Answer 2

File pathBinary = new File("Firefox.exe location");
FirefoxBinary ffBinary = new FirefoxBinary(pathBinary);
FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffBinary,firefoxProfile);

You need to add binary of the browser

or

Best and forever solution: Just add Firefox.exe location to environmental variables

Answer 3

I was also facing the same problem and I spent more than a week to fix it. Restarting my machine seemed to have fixed it, but only temporarily.

There was a solution to increase the maximum number of ephemeral ports by editing the registry file. That seemed to have fixed the problem but that also, only temporarily.

For sometime, I kept thinking if I was trying to access a driver which is no longer available, so I have tried to call:

driver.quit()

And then recreate the browser instance, which only gave me: SessionNotFoundException.

I now realized that I had used BOTH System.setProperty as well as ffCapability.setCapability to set the path of the binary.

I then tried with only System.setProperty => No luck there.

Only ffCapability.setCapability => Voila!!! So far it has been working fine. Hopefully it will work great when I try to re-run my scripts tomorrow and the day after and the day after... :)

Bottomline: Use only this

ffCapability.setCapability("binary", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"); //for windows`

Hope it helps!

Answer 4

be attention, if path to browser have space (as example "...\Program Files (x86)...") you need add double quotes to value of param.

Example:

-Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="D:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

All has been run successfully when added double quotes.

Answer 5

For me it was just a matter of changing the path variable to: 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox' instead of 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox'

Answer 6

This code simply worked for me

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin", "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox 54\\firefox.exe");
String Firefoxdriverpath = "C:\\Users\\Hp\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.18.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", Firefoxdriverpath);
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);