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How can I set up a Selenium Python environment for Firefox?

I am using Firefox 50, Selenium 3, Python 3.5. I tried with many things binary and copying the geckodriver in the environment variable PATH, etc.

Peter Mortensen
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jaibalaji
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    1. Download and install Firefox on your machine (if you haven't done so already). 2. Run `pip install selenium` in a command line (if you haven't done so already). 3. Write your code. – barak manos Feb 13 '17 at 13:12

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The testing machine should have Selenium v. 3.0.2, Firefox v. 51.0.1 (latest version) and geckodriver v. 0.14. If you are using Linux, please do the following steps:

[Look up the latest release on GitHub (or from the API) and replace the wget link with that. Downloading and installing an outdating release may result in "buggy" behaviour.]

apt-get update
apt-get install firefox
pip3 install selenium==3.0.2
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/vX.XX.0/geckodriver-vX.XX.0-linuxXX.tar.gz -O /tmp/geckodriver.tar.gz \
  && tar -C /opt -xzf /tmp/geckodriver.tar.gz \
  && chmod 755 /opt/geckodriver \
  && ln -fs /opt/geckodriver /usr/bin/geckodriver \
  && ln -fs /opt/geckodriver /usr/local/bin/geckodriver

Select the version for your operating system from the available compressed pre-built binaries.

Here is an example to run:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://google.com')
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()
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As far as I understand, you want to develop in Python, using the Selenium library and work with the Firefox webdriver.

  1. Install Python (Python 3 already contains pip)
  2. Install Selenium (pip install selenium or some IDEs like PyCharm propose to install libraries, just import Selenium)
  3. Download Mozilla webdriver
  4. Enjoy!
Peter Mortensen
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torina
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  1. In Windows install Python from: https://www.python.org/downloads/

  2. Then run pip install from the command line: pip install selenium

  3. Download the Gecko/Chrome/Internet Explorer driver and add the driver.exe path to the PATH environment variable. So the need to set up the path while running Selenium driver.Firefox() / driver.Chrome() method.

Peter Mortensen
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jaibalaji
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If you are working on Ubuntu and the latest firefox. You may find some issues since firefox is bundled now in snap.

To resolve the issue with driver not being able to connect to the firefox, you will need to use driver bundled with snap.

I bundled an ready to go example here: https://github.com/beliaev-maksim/firefox-selenium

However, for quick access here is the content of conftest.py for quickly setup a driver fixture

import pytest
from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service


@pytest.fixture(scope='session')
def driver(request):
    """Set up webdriver fixture."""
    options = Options()
    options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
    options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

    service = Service(executable_path="firefox.geckodriver")
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, service=service)
    driver.set_window_size(1920, 1080)
    driver.maximize_window()
    driver.implicitly_wait(10)

    yield driver
    driver.quit()
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