Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055

Question

I am a newbie with webdriver and need some help..

I am using Selenium 2.2.0 with FF v7.0.1 on Windows XP

I've managed to record and play back a java script successfully in IE but whenever I try and execute the same script in FF, I get the following error message:

Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms

I've read at numbe of places that if I downgrade the firefox version to 3.6 script will work fine however I am not to keen on downgrading. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

package hisScripts;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.junit.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;


public class WebdriverTest_1 {
private WebDriver driver;
private String baseUrl;
private StringBuffer verificationErrors = new StringBuffer();
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    //driver=new InternetExplorerDriver();
    baseUrl = "https://**********/";
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

@Test
public void testUntitled() throws Exception {
    driver.get(baseUrl + "/");
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'my profile')]")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'about the service')]")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'contact us')]")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'help')]")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'home')]")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(text(),'logout')]")).click();

}

@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    driver.quit();
    String verificationErrorString = verificationErrors.toString();
    if (!"".equals(verificationErrorString)) {
        fail(verificationErrorString);
    }
}

private boolean isElementPresent(By by) {
    try {
        driver.findElement(by);
        return true;
    } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
        return false;
    }
}

}

Answer 1

The selenium version you are using is extremely old. I don't think firefox 10 is supported in v2.2. The latest is 2.20.

Take a look at change log here. From the notes here native events in firefox 10 were supported starting from v2.19.0 that means you would need 2.19 or higher to support firefox 10.