How to use the gecko executable with Selenium

Question

I'm using Firefox 47.0 with Selenium 2.53. Recently they have been a bug between Selenium and Firefox which make code not working. One of the solution is to use the Marionnette driver.

I followed the instruction of this site to use this new driver with a RemotWebDriver but I keep having the error :

WARN - Exception: Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/jgraham/wires. The latest version can be downloaded from ....

The code i've tried so far is very simple :

public class Test {     static WebDriver driver;     static Wait<WebDriver> wait;     public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {         System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\geckodriver.exe");         DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();         cap.setCapability("marionette", true);         cap.setBrowserName("firefox");         driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://192.168.117.135:5555/wd/hub"), cap);//true to enable the JS         wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 3000);         final String url = "https://www.google.com/";          JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;          try {             driver.navigate().to(url);         } finally {             driver.close();         }     } } 

I'm sure that the path to the geckodriver.exe is right and i don't see where i did the mistake.

EDIT 1: I tried the following code :

public class Test {     static WebDriver driver;     static Wait<WebDriver> wait;     public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {         System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\geckodriver.exe");          driver = new MarionetteDriver();         wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 3000);         final String url = "https://www.google.com/";          JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;          try {             driver.navigate().to(url);         } finally {             driver.close();         }     } } 

and it's working it seems that the problem come from the RemoteWebDriver and the gecko driver, any of you have news on it ?

Answer 1

Recently Selenium has launched Selenium 3 and if you are trying to use Firefox latest version then you have to use GeckoDriver:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","G:\\Selenium\\Firefox driver\\geckodriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 

You can check full documentation from here

Answer 2

I am also facing the same issue and got the resolution after a day :

The exception is coming because System needs Geckodriver to run the Selenium test case. You can try this code under the main Method in Java

    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","path of/geckodriver.exe");     DesiredCapabilities capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.firefox();     capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);     WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities); 

For more information You can go to this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionette/WebDriver link.

Please let me know if the issue doesn't get resolved.