How to explicitly specify a path to Firefox for Selenium?

Question

I got Selenium IDE, followed this post, got to

python test_default_server.py

and it complains Firefox is not in my path:

Please add the directory containing ''firefox.exe'' to your PATH environment
variable, or explicitly specify a path to Firefox 3 like this:
*firefox3c:\blah\firefox.exe

I could change my PATH environment variable, but I'd rather pursue the local config option they are mentioning ("explicitly specify a path"). How do I do that? What does the "*firefox3c" refer to?

Selenium 1.0.1, Python 2.5, Windows XP.

Solution 1

You have to use the following string when you instantiate selenium instead of just "*firefox":

"*firefox C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"

Notice: I'm not sure that path is correct, but it should be a similar one.

Update: Where do you instantiate your browser? By the tags in the question I suppose you're a python guy:

def setUp(self):
    self.verificationErrors = []
    self.selenium = selenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe", "http://change-this-to-the-site-you-are-testing/")
    self.selenium.start()

Solution 2

If on C# editor, use the following string:

selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox C:\\Program Files\\firefox.exe", "http://www.google.com/");

Note: use an extra back slash before Program Files and firefox.exe, since a single backslash becomes an unrecognized escape sequence.

Solution 3

selenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe", "http://change-this-to-the-site-you-are-testing/")

Worked in Java.

Solution 4

This helps very much. setUp("http://localhost:8080/BingDemo/BingDriver.html", "*firefox C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe");

However, replace all occurrences of \ with \\ in *firefox C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

Additionally, you could point your PATH to in environmental variables to mozilla.exe

Solution 5

For Java Solution using Selenium Webdriver, you can import the below class:

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxBinary; 

and use the code snippet below to instantiate a new driver by explicitly specifying the path to the firefox.exe in your local system.

DesiredCapabilities browserCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
FirefoxBinary ffbinary = new FirefoxBinary(new File("C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"));
FirefoxProfile ffprofile = new FirefoxProfile();
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffbinary, ffprofile, browserCapabilities);

Note: You may need to replace "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" with the path that points to firefox.exe on your local machine.

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