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I must have some versions here that don't match up since I can't get Selenium with Python to fire up a Firefox web browser. I'm using an older version of Firefox because other people in here have the same old version of Python and for them the old version of Firefox works best.

Code:

from selenium import webdriver from selenium import common from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities driver=webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX)

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "scrapeCommunitySelenium.py", line 13, in <module> driver=webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 158, in __init__ keep_alive=True) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 154, in __init__ self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 243, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 311, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 237, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: Unable to find a matching set of capabilities

Version info:

  • Python 2.7.10
  • Selenium 3.8.0
  • Firefox 46.0
  • GeckoDriver 0.19.1 (It's in a folder which is in my PATH environment variable)
  • MacOS 10.12.6
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  • Are running that on Grid or locally? Commented Dec 13, 2017 at 4:55
  • Running it locally. Commented Dec 13, 2017 at 17:30

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As you are using Selenium 3.8.0 you have to use GeckoDriver as a mandatory. But again as you are using Firefox v46.0 you have to set the capability marionette as False through DesiredCapabilities() as follows :

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX cap["marionette"] = False browser = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=cap, executable_path="C:\\path\\to\\geckodriver.exe") browser.get('http://google.com/') browser.quit()
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' cap["marionette"] = false ' => gives error : 'caps not defined'. What does this line change?
I keep getting "The browser appears to have exited before we could reconnect." However, its asking to close the browser each time I run the thing.
This solution also works for MacOS, just need to change the executable path.
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If you're going to use Geckodriver, you definitely need to use a newer version of Firefox. Frex: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.19.0 lists FF55 or greater.

If you plan on using FF46, don't use geckodriver. Update your capabilities to have marionette set to False:

caps = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX.copy() caps['marionette'] = False driver=webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=caps)
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Setting marionette to False seems to do the trick. Thank you!
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I had this issue on my MacOS 10.5 Catalina. What I did: 1. Installed the geckodriver using brew install geckodriver 2. Deleted/uninstalled my existing(OLD) Firefox browser (v.46) and installed v70. 3. tried:

from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get('http://google.com')

The above worked fine with no errors, by launching Firefox and loading google.com

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I got this error because the Firefox browser was not installed on my machine. You can download Firefox or download the Chrome driver here. If you use the Chrome drive, make sure you add it to the path (just like the geckodriver).

And the you can use it like this:

from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Chrome() driver.get("http://www.python.org")
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SAME here! Wow, I must've read over 75 webpages before coming across this...
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You can see similar error on Chrome as well. If you are seeing it on Ubuntu, the reason is probably you have a pre-installed version of Chrome and Firefox which is older. And you have downloaded the latest version of Chrome/Firefox driver.

Simple solution is:

  1. Uninstall the existing Chrome/Firefox browser provided from Ubuntu : Go to Applications(top left corner)->Ubuntu software center-> search Chrome and uninstall it.
  2. Install latest browser.

For Chrome, steps are as follows:

  1. wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

  2. sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Done!

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There are some possible reasons for that error like:

  1. Firefox is installed in your system
  2. Firefox access is admin only
  3. Firefox is not installed with same name
  4. Firefox version is not updated
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This error can also come from the version 32bits, choose a x64 version to fix it.

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