I’ve been searching for alternatives and I’ve settled for the following versions. All use explicit wait with a defined timeout and are based on element properties in the first case and on element staleness in the second case. First choice would be checking element properties until a timeout is reached. I’ve arrived to the following … Read more
Try to put the geckodriver.exe in your path: C:\Users\YourName\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\seleniump\seleniump\bin\Debug you can find geckodriver.exe at this link: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
To invoke Firefox Browser headlessly, you can set the headless property through Options() class as follows: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options options = Options() options.headless = True driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, executable_path=r’C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe’) driver.get(“http://google.com/”) print (“Headless Firefox Initialized”) driver.quit() There’s another way to accomplish headless mode. If you need to disable or enable the … Read more
To turn off this annoying start page: in C# with Selenium 2.48 I found the following solution: FirefoxProfile prof = new FirefoxProfile(); prof.SetPreference(“browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone”, “ignore”); prof.SetPreference(“startup.homepage_welcome_url.additional”, “about:blank”); Driver = new FirefoxDriver(prof); …and it will never bother you again. Note: One of these settings alone will also work. I use them together to make it bullet-proof.
Up to version 45 (pushed to version 47), the driver used to automate Firefox was an extension included with each client. But this extension was dropped, probably due to the change of policy which now requires all the extensions to be signed by Mozilla. Marionette is the new driver that is shipped/included with Firefox. This … Read more
Another element is covering the element you are trying to click. You could use execute_script() to click on this. element = driver.find_element_by_class_name(‘pagination-r’) driver.execute_script(“arguments[0].click();”, element)
Unfortunately Selenium WebDriver 2.53.0 is not compatible with Firefox 47.0. The WebDriver component which handles Firefox browsers (FirefoxDriver) will be discontinued. As of version 3.0, Selenium WebDriver will need the geckodriver binary to manage Firefox browsers. More info here and here. Therefore, in order to use Firefox 47.0 as browser with Selenium WebDriver 2.53.0, you … Read more
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘geckodriver’ executable needs to be in PATH. First of all you will need to download latest executable geckodriver from here to run latest Firefox using Selenium Actually, the Selenium client bindings tries to locate the geckodriver executable from the system PATH. You will need to add the directory containing the executable to the … Read more