selenium works only 2.53.6 with firefox 45.0.2

Question

I use selenium on Python 2.7 and it only works if using version 2.53.6 associated with firefox 45.0.2. Any other versions, returns this error or similar:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmpaQkqJv If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.

Every day there is at least one Firefox update, and I tried many solutions to avoid this, but I still need to run

sudo apt-get install firefox=45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

I created a cron job to do it for me, but for some reason, it just doesn't work.

Here is the shell file

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/opt/someApp/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin 

sudo apt-get install --allow-downgrades -y  firefox=45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 >> logs2.txt

Here are some of the cron jobs I tried (from crontab -e):

32 * * * * root (apt-get install --allow-downgrades -y  firefox=45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1)
32 * * * * /home/stefanolinux/firefox_update.sh >> firefox_update_works.txt

as root:

@hourly apt-get install firefox=45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
32 * * * * apt-get install --allow-downgrades -y  firefox=45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

more frustrating is to see that the same script works without any downgrade needed (both for firefox and selenium) when running from Windows. Any suggestion?

Please refer to this post,it will be helpful http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37693106/selenium-2-53-not-working-on-firefox-47 — Arduino_Sentinel, Dec 08 '16 at 16:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 08 '16 at 17:16

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You can stop the updates. Choose options from the menu

select "Advanced" -> "Update" tab -> "Never check for update"

And downgrade FireFox one last time.

answered Dec 08 '16 at 17:16

Guy

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unfortunately I already tried that solution, but it didn't work. In any case, it wouldn't solve the problem when I run the script remotely and I need to work through terminal – user270911 Dec 09 '16 at 08:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 23 '16 at 09:16

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solved using sudo apt-mark hold firefox

answered Dec 23 '16 at 09:16

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selenium works only 2.53.6 with firefox 45.0.2

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