chrome browser is opened when firefox driver is used

Question

Using selenium, I am initializing a firefox driver but, the chrome driver is initialized and chrome browser is opened.

Had I configured default settings anywhere? What could be the problem..Sorry for the dumb question.But, I got no clues.Please help.

Here goes my code,

import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;


public class Aon
{
public static WebDriver driver;
public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:/Users/ranganah/Downloads/Softwares/Selenium/geckodriver.exe");
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("http://www.google.co.in");
    System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
    System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
    driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Hari");
    driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

    System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
    System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
    driver.close();
    driver.quit();
   }
   }

For the screen shot: https://postimg.org/image/ncyg2o9l5/

Answer 1

It is possible if you renamed chromedriver.exe to geckodriver.exe

Download geckodriver.exe from here and add it to the path and try.

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Observed that when we rename chromedriver.exe to geckodriver.exe, though you create an instance of Firefox/InternetExplorer Driver, it will launch Chrome browser.