How to close firefox browser in selenium 3.0.1

Question

Firefox : 50.0.1, GeckoDriver :13, selenium 3.01, IDE: Eclipse, Programming language : Java

Using below code :

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\geckodriver.exe); 
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/");
driver.close(); Or driver.quit()

In driver.close() the browser is not closed In driver.quite() the browser is closed and Firefox crashed. Getting Error: "plugin container for FireFox has stopped working."

Please let me know any solution

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 10 '17 at 08:34

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Steps you can try:

Uninstall any plugins in the Firefox browser.
Use the 64-bit version of geckodriver for 64-bit Firefox, similarly, 32-bit geckodriver for 32-bit Firefox.

I have tried the code in the same environment, and driver.quit worked for me. driver.close still not closing the browser.

answered Jan 10 '17 at 08:34

Naveen Kumar R B

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when you used driver.quite, was it not giving any Error as ''Firefox is stopped working" – Shilpa Jan 10 '17 at 09:07
Yes, it closed properly and not crashed. – Naveen Kumar R B Jan 10 '17 at 09:09
did you uninstalled all plugins in firefox browser ..? – Shilpa Jan 10 '17 at 09:33
No. Disabled all of them. First, try with disabling. Maybe one of the plugin causing the issue, if not all. – Naveen Kumar R B Jan 10 '17 at 09:50
any luck? do a system restart and try once. Don't ask me the logic. sometimes, it works like a magic. – Naveen Kumar R B Jan 10 '17 at 13:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '17 at 09:00

You should always use driver.quit() when you want to close browser and not just one tab.

This exception you get is unfortunately known issue when quitting geckodriver firefox instance, see this links for details.

https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium-google-code-issue-archive/issues/7506 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027222

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 13 '17 at 09:48

You can create a new firefox profile steps can be found here!

In your code use this new profile created.

WebDriver webdriver;
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("myProfileName");
webdriver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);

Now webdriver.quit(); will close the firefox browser after the test has run.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 30 '18 at 19:10

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This seems to be a problem with the geckodriver.

The workaround which worked for me was to install the older version of geckodriver, 0.20.1, which you can download here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.20.1

answered Aug 30 '18 at 19:10

RubenD

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