Selenium- Class FirefoxDriver issue : The method FirefoxDriver(FirefoxOptions) is undefined

Question

I am facing this issue when i want to set Firefox preferences as follows :

public class MyTest{
    
    public WebDriver driver;
    public String baseUrl;
    
    @BeforeSuite
    public void beforeSuite() {
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
        FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
        //FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
        options.addPreference("browser.download.folderList", 1);
        options.addPreference("browser.download.dir", "C:\\Downloads");
        options.addPreference("browser.download.useDownloadDir", true);
        options.addPreference("browser.download.viewableInternally.enabledTypes", "");
        options.addPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/pdf;text/plain;application/text;text/xml;application/xml");
        options.addPreference("pdfjs.disabled", true);

        WebDriver driver = FirefoxDriver(options);
       //some other code

And the issue is for FirefoxDriver(options) . It underlines The method FirefoxDriver(FirefoxOptions) is undefined for the type MyTest

Anyone can give a support on that ?

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2021-02-01T22:09:34.217

Ensure that you have the following import:

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions;

As well as set the path of the GeckoDriver using the System.setProperty() line as follows:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\geckodriver.exe");

Additionally, to make the FirefoxOptions put into effect, you need to remove the line:

driver = new FirefoxDriver();

and finally change the line:

WebDriver driver = FirefoxDriver(options);

as:

driver = FirefoxDriver(options);

Historically this error message...

FirefoxDriver(FirefoxOptions) is undefined for the type MyTest

...was observed earlier due to:

Co-existance of older versions of Selenium.
Incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using.

Solution

Ensure that:

JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u271.
Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 3.141.59.
GeckoDriver is upgraded to GeckoDriver v0.28.0 level.
Firefox is upgraded to current Firefox v78.0.2 levels.
Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
Execute your Test as a non-root user.
Always invoke driver.quit() within tearDown(){} method to close & destroy the WebDriver and Web Client instances gracefully.

@Chaoui05 Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status. — undetected Selenium, Feb 01 '21 at 21:08
I don't have to set System properties as the webdriver is in my environment variables. What do you mean by "execute your test" ? For the rest, yes. I maybe have to check all the versions.. — Chaoui05, Feb 01 '21 at 21:32
@Chaoui05 Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status. — undetected Selenium, Feb 01 '21 at 22:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '21 at 21:12

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you can try.

WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();

answered Feb 01 '21 at 21:12

NikkowNikz

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PDHide · Answer 3 · 2021-02-01T22:05:01.223

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Remove first

    driver= new Firefoxdriver()

And change last line as

   WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);

If you don't call new you are referring to a function called FirefoxDriver which doesn't ,

You are creating an object of class FirefoxDriver so you should use new keyword

edited Feb 01 '21 at 22:05

answered Feb 01 '21 at 21:39

PDHide

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