Good news for Selenium users, Recently Selenium has launched Selenium 3 with so many new changes.In this post I will show you how to use Firefox in Selenium using geckodriver which will run the test.
If you are using Selenium 3 then to work with Firefox browser you need to use separate a driver which will interact with Firefox browser. If you have noticed then we have done the same thing for Chrome and IE browser as well.
Aug 16, 2019 geckodriver is made available under the Mozilla Public License. Its source code can be found in mozilla-central under testing/geckodriver. This GitHub repository is only used for issue tracking and making releases. The mailing list for geckodriver discussion is tools-marionette@lists.mozilla.org (subscribe, archive). Mar 24, 2019 This can be done by downloading the source code for Firefox and using the -with-libxul-sdk option to configure. Static xpidl.exe (non-official) If you are looking for a static linked xpidl.exe, you can download here. Mac Intel Gecko 1.8 SDK The official Mac 1.8 SDK is a ppc version. This is an unofficial intel build.
One important thing in this post is even if you are using Firefox beta version then it will work. If you are using firefox 47 and so on then it will work.
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We have used below system property for Chrome and IE
webdriver.chrome.driver for Chrome browserRoland camm 1 pro driver.
webdriver.ie.driver for IE browser
Now we have to use webdriver.gecko.driver for Firefox as well 🙂
Note- if you are still using Selenium 2 like 2.53 and 2.51 or any version then you don’t have to set this path.
Let’s run a basic program with Selenium 3 beta version
Program 1 without any driver
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Output console
The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property;
Firefox in Selenium using geckodriver
As you can see to work with Firefox we have to set the property now. You can download the driver from Github and then you can extract and you will get .exe file.
Download URL – https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.9.0
Youtube- Firefox in Selenium using geckodriver
Complete program for Firefox in Selenium using geckodriver
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 | System.setProperty('webdriver.gecko.driver','G:SeleniumFirefox drivergeckodriver.exe'); // if above property is not working or not opening the application in browser then try below property //System.setProperty('webdriver.firefox.marionette','G:SeleniumFirefox drivergeckodriver.exe'); WebDriver driver=newFirefoxDriver(); driver.get('http://www.facebook.com'); System.out.println('Application title is '+driver.getTitle()); driver.quit(); } } |
Now you can run the program and you will get expected output.
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