Selenium WebDriver is not able to connect to Firefox

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I am unable to launch Firefox browser(53) using selenium webdriver (3.11) The code works well with Chromedriver but gives exception with Firefox.

import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; public class CNN { public static void main(String[] args) { WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("http://www.cnn.com"); String text =driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='intl_homepage1-zone-1']/div[2]/div/div[1]/ul/li[1]/article/a/h2")).getText(); System.out.println(text); } }

This is the exception that i am getting:-

 Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:5542 Build info: version: '3.11.0', revision: 'e59cfb3', time: '2018-03-11T20:33:08.638Z'

Vladimir Sokolov · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-01 23:10:11Z

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Do you download and install gecko driver for Firefox? If not please do it and use as system properties while running test in Firefox.

answered May 1, 2018 at 23:10

Vladimir Sokolov

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sjk Over a year ago

It worked! not only for this class but also the other classes where firefox was not working. Thanks

Vladimir Sokolov Over a year ago

You need to create CapabilitiesGenerator for the current version of WebDriver and read more about WebDriverFactory Pattern.

sjk Over a year ago

how to create capabilitesgenerator, where can i find webdriverfactory pattern information

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