Selenium WebDriver - FirefoxDriver error: Failed to start up socket within 45000

Question

I'm getting this error:

tests.IntegrationTests.Selenium.RegisterAndLogin (TestFixtureSetUp):
SetUp : OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : Failed to start up socket within 45000

when I carry out the following in my code:

using System;
using System.Text;
using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium;

namespace ekmProspector.tests.IntegrationTests.Selenium
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class RegisterAndLogin
    {
        private IWebDriver driver;   

        [TestFixtureSetUp]
        public void Init()
        {            

            driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        }
}

Can't get much simpler really, but the error is fatal. Any ideas?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 18 '16 at 14:41

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Solution is as easy as pie :)

Right Click on your .Net (C#) Project and select 'Manage NuGet Packages ...' option, as shown below:

Then select Selenium specific packages, they need updated so update them.

The updated packages will be updated automatically.

It works for me.

answered Jan 18 '16 at 14:41

Hassan Rahman

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Worked for me too. Thank you! – Usman Zaheer Jul 14 '16 at 21:11

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '11 at 16:13

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I got this working in the end, I removed all the package sub-folders which were added by NuGet when installing WebDriver and decided to added these manually. Created a 'lib' folder, then unzipped the selenium binaries into that folder. Then added references to all the binaries. Seems to be fine now.

answered Oct 06 '11 at 16:13

jaffa

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I had tests that worked on my box but not on another, the other box had a newer version of Firefox and was failing with the above error message. I upgraded the Selenium web driver (did not take the one from NuGet) and now the other box works fine. – David Sacks Jan 02 '14 at 21:02

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

Versions

FF v48 Selenium Webdriver v2.53.1
Windows 7 (x64)
.Net 4.0 and .Net 4.5

Trying the fixes

As per @jaffa I manually added the following refereces and got the problem:

WebDriver.dll v2.53.1
WebDriver.Support.dll v2.53.1

I then unreferenced them and followed @HassanRahman and used NuGet:

WebDriver.dll v2.53.1
WebDriver.Support.dll v2.53.1

Still same error.

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : Failed to start up socket within 45000

Troubleshooting

I had a hunch and decided to downgrade from targeting .Net 4.5 to .Net 4.0 (Full not client profile) and the error changed to:

An unhandled exception of type 'OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException' occurred in WebDriver.dll Additional information: Cannot find Firefox binary in PATH or default install locations. Make sure Firefox is installed. OS appears to be: Vista

I wondered if this is why people who reinstalled FireFox got it to work again?

Somewhere there has to be a set of Registry Keys or an Environment Variable to find FireFox's ApplicationStartupPath. You can see some of those paths in this ProcessMonitor trace:

In the screenshot above you can see the app (AstrobLabe) I'm using running this line of code:

using (IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffprofile))

It causes a search for FireFox v48 and its looking in the wrong directory:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla FireFox\FireFox.exe

On my system FireFox is installed in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla\Firefox\FireFox.exe

Anyway finding and correcting this issue (Cannot find Firefox binary in PATH or default install locations) is for someone else to fix, I just copied the Firefox directory to Mozilla FireFox.

But then it goes back to the original error:

An unhandled exception of type 'OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException' occurred in WebDriver.dll Additional information: Failed to start up socket within 45000 milliseconds. Attempted to connect to the following addresses: 127.0.0.1:7055

Solution

Then I came across this answer which says that FireFox v46 works with Selenium 2.53: Which Firefox version is compatible with Selenium 2.53.0?

When I downgraded I saw that FFv46 installs to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla FireFox\FireFox.exe

So check if your FF install is in this location - which based on the ProcessMonitor Trace Selenium cant find:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla\Firefox\FireFox.exe

Thanks for your answer. How do you know which filter to use in process monitor ? I got no results when I used the solution name in the filter (i.e. "process name is"). — MasterJoe, Sep 26 '16 at 23:17
Just reset the Filter and search for "Firefox.exe" The application I was running is called Astrolabe - it has the line of code `using (IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffprofile))` - so I filtered ProcMon to Astrolabe.vshost.exe — Jeremy Thompson, Sep 26 '16 at 23:18
Thanks. That helped a bit. I don't see any issues in the path column. Path to the firefox binary was found. Now, I don't know what is causing the problem. I have latest webdriver, firefox, but VS Express 2012 on Win 7, 64bit. — MasterJoe, Sep 26 '16 at 23:48
BEfore you downgrade to FireFox v46 or v45 which works with the latest Selenium 2.53 try including a Path to FireFox in the \Environment Variable — Jeremy Thompson, Sep 26 '16 at 23:50
Thanks. Luckily, I can do down grades or swap browsers because I am working on toy code. I wonder how one could approach the problem if downgrades were not an option. — MasterJoe, Sep 26 '16 at 23:51

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 07 '12 at 17:51

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I found that I was able to to fix this problem in Firefox Selenium by updating my Selenium packages in NuGet.

But it still leaves you with the problem of manually updating the Chrome and IE drivers if similar problems arise.

answered Nov 07 '12 at 17:51

DevDave

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 31 '14 at 06:26

I also faced the problem while running the the test in NUnit. I found many solution to remove or degrade your Firefox.But i solved this in another way i remove all the references related to web drivers and add the upgrade web driver to the Solution.

In my application the webdriver version was 2.24 so i replaced with 2.43 and now my test are running fine.

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 09:53

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For anyone finding this question more recently (2015-02-27), there seems to be an open issue with compatibility with Selenium and Firefox 36:

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=8399

You can download Firefox 35 here: http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/59889/

answered Feb 27 '15 at 09:53

adrian

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I could solve this problem with the latest version of Selenium. Before I was on 2.39 – Peter Wippermann Oct 28 '15 at 18:35

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 10 '15 at 15:29

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I had this issue with latest version of both Firefox (42) and Selenium (2.48.2). Uninstalling and re-installing (via Nuget) fixed the issue for me.

answered Dec 10 '15 at 15:29

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 27 '16 at 20:27

I found that running an older version of resharper (9.2) failed to work with the latest nunit and that caused selenium to timeout.

The temporary solution was to disable resharper (Tools -> Options -> Resharper -> Disable), the permanent solution is upgrading resharper.

score 1 · Answer 9 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

None of the previous answers clearly state that specific versions of Selenium WebDriver work with specific versions of Firefox. This SO question tells us that the Webdriver/Firefox compatibility matrix is here.

The other thing worth stating is that Firefox tends to update itself more-or-less automatically when new versions become available, depending on settings. Since Webdriver does not update itself automatically, this opens up the possibility that the Webdriver/Firefox compatibility will unexpectedly break and your test scripts will stop running when Firefox updates itself to a version that is not supported by your Webdriver version. I suspect that the answers above that instruct users to re-install Webdriver using Nuget simply pick up the newest Webdriver which works with the newest Firefox that just installed itself on your machine.

To prevent Firefox from upgrading itself, click on the menu button in Firefox (three horizontal bars, upper-right corner), choose "Options", choose "Advanced" on the left menu, choose the "Update" tab at the top and you'll see a set of radio buttons under "Firefox updates". Choose a setting other that "Automatically install updates".

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 18 '11 at 20:42

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I solved this by completely removing firefox and all profiles and reinstalling.

answered Nov 18 '11 at 20:42

Brian121212

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 07 '13 at 06:17

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Reinstalling FF browser fixed the issue.

answered Mar 07 '13 at 06:17

Amar HR

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Even after re-installing FF error occurs very frequently so re-installing everytime is annoying, is there any other solution. – Amar HR Apr 01 '13 at 06:59

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered May 28 '13 at 05:56

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Which version of Selenium IDE you are using? Try downgrading the Firefox version. The release notes of selenium IDE is mentioned in below link.

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SeIDEReleaseNotes

Hope this helps.

answered May 28 '13 at 05:56

Naren

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 06 '13 at 08:14

1) Downgrade your firefox to < 19 because if i remember correctly WebDriver 2.33 support maxim Firefox 19

2)

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.Port = 9966;
Global.Driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

P.S. I'm using firefox 16 to not have this issue

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Nov 29 '15 at 13:02

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I have same issue with selenium version 2.37.xx with Firefox browser 42.0 After updating selenium version 2.48.2 issue is fixed

answered Nov 29 '15 at 13:02

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 09:40

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I was working with on C# with WebDriver 2.53/Firefox 46. Tried reinstalling things, manually re-adding etc but downgrading Firefox to 43 fixed it for me.

answered Apr 20 '16 at 09:40

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score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 20:44

Updating through "NuGet" is what helped me. Firefox 47 and Selenium Webdriver 2.53 wasn't working. Checking the selenium site, it still shows "2.53" as their latest. Checking "NuGet" though, I saw there was a "2.53.1" version available. Installing that version is what got my Firefox 47 to work again.

Harry Chu · Answer 17 · 2016-07-13T23:00:25.650

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Error image

See the error image, I uninstalled completely and re-install version46, things solved.

edited Jul 13 '16 at 23:00

answered Jul 13 '16 at 22:32

Harry Chu

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Selenium WebDriver - FirefoxDriver error: Failed to start up socket within 45000

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Troubleshooting

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