How to set a driver path of firefoxdriver in selenium

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Hi I am very new to selenium . So pardon me for any technical mistakes. I have a project which works fine for IE. But I need to test using firefox too. Does the project require a pointer towards the driver like IEDriver in case of execution in IE?

You might want to improve the question somewhat, i.e. what did you do and what went wrong / what happened? (if applicable) — Tilman Hausherr, Jan 06 '15 at 10:05

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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You don't need to set the driver path for FirefoxDriver.
You can directly use WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();.

However, there are other ways to run selenium in Firefox also, as below:

1- Using Firefox Profile;
Used to run selenium in a new user-defined profile with a set of preferences as necessary.

2- Using Firefox Binary;
[PS:- Not much Idea on how it works, But this link might help you out]

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Jan 06 '15 at 16:30

Subh

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For chrome Driver is required? – user1700354 Jan 09 '15 at 06:25
I am assuming, you mean setting up of the Driver property. Yes, it is [done for Chrome](http://stackoverflow.com/a/13729517/4193730). – Subh Jan 09 '15 at 06:31
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You actually NEED to do so if bin is not in PATH – DGoiko May 21 '20 at 11:13
True.. This answer was for an older version of selenium. Now, we need to set up system property from Selenium 3 as geckodriver is in play for Firefox browser – Subh May 21 '20 at 11:38

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '15 at 14:28

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In my enviroment I set the property -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="C:\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

answered Dec 14 '15 at 14:28

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 06 '15 at 10:24

For testing with FireFox you can directly use driver = new FirefoxDriver() or you can download selenium driver for ie from this link and set path property as stated below.

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "pathToTheIEDriver");
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 18 '19 at 05:41

If we want to run the test case of Firefox then we need GeckoDriver. Use below link for downloading the latest geckodriver: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Save the driver inside your project repository in a folder (you can give any name to the folder, i have used "BrowserDriver"). Use below code for calling the driver:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir")+"/BrowserDriver/Mac/geckodriver 2");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 04 '20 at 08:42

Many of you might get the error in creating path to geckodriver or firefox-driver it's very easy just follow this way:

from selenium import webdriver
path = "home/sysname/Desktop/geckodriver"
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path = path)

Notice that you have to write executable_path=path and then give path variable name.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 06 '15 at 10:22

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You just need to create a WebDriver that is an instance of Firefox, like so:

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;


WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

answered Jan 06 '15 at 10:22

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 06 '15 at 10:29

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import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;//import this package
import org.openqa.selenium.By;        //import this package

WebDriver FF_river = new FirefoxDriver();//create a reference variable of FirefoxDriver() int

answered Jan 06 '15 at 10:29

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you should add an explanation along with your answer to explain why OP should implement your solution. – JSK NS Jan 06 '15 at 10:51
yes its require a webdriver for and instance to firefox, thats why you have to import these package and a reference variable – Sanjay Kumar Jan 06 '15 at 11:00
you didn't even use the packages you imported – Corey Goldberg Mar 12 '17 at 17:33

How to set a driver path of firefoxdriver in selenium

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