Selenium WebDriver + Firefox 7.0.1 incompatibility

Question

I have a project where we have some Selenium tests. I have recently upgraded Firefox to 7.0.1 because it prompted me to and now the "WebDriver for Firefox" extension that these tests use is broken.

How can I fix this? Must I uninstall this current version of Firefox and install an older one? Or is there a file I can edit to tell it to ignore that the version is different?

Answer 1

An upgrade to Selenium webdriver to 2.8 would probably solve it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20120115040501/http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/tags/selenium-2.8.0/rb/CHANGES

Unfortunately this has been the case for every Firefox upgrade since 5.0

Answer 2

I would try with the latest selenium-webdriver. I run Firefox 7.0.1 as well and it works with selenium-webdriver 2.8.0.

Answer 3

You can tell Firefox to ignore plugin and extension versions.

1. Type about:config in the browser address bar
2. Right-click and create a new boolean value called extensions.checkCompatibility.7.0
3. Set this value to false

That should prevent the plugin raising an issue with its version compatibility to 7.0.1