How to fix Selenium WebDriverException: "The browser appears to have exited"
Solution 1
If you're running Selenium on Firefox 47.0, you need to update to Firefox 47.0.1 which is not released in Ubuntu's main repos.. so you have to add this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/47.0.1/releasenotes/
"Selenium WebDriver may cause Firefox to crash at startup"
Once Firefox 48.0 is out, it will include the fix. I think Ubuntu has skipped this update because it affects very few users.
I can confirm the error with FF 47.0 and Selenium 2.53, and I can also confirm that upgrading to FF 47.0.1 fixes the error.
Solution 2
This is fixed by updating firefox 47.0.0 to 47.0.1 manually
Solution 3
I was having the same problem with my selenium script. I had to make sure that I was using the proper software versions as described in the selenium installation documentation, namely Pyhton 3.5 and Firefox version 45 (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-of-firefox). I am using the selenium version 2.9.1 although from reading around 2.53 may work best.
I noticed in the comments you also questioned how you can check the version of your Firefox. To do this you can go open a Firefox browser, click the menu button and click the question mark at the bottom of the pop-out menu, and finally click "About Firefox". The version number should be the second line of text in the pop-up. There may be other ways to do so but this worked for me.
Hopefully this will help you get your script to run.
Solution 4
Just for people like me wasting hours with installing several firefox versions to make this working: same message error appears if you are running tests in an environment without display (e.g. SSH to your vagrant box).
sudo apt-get install xvfb
#set display number to :99
Xvfb :99 -ac &
export DISPLAY=:99
Remember to put this in a .bashrc because it's valid only in the current session shell.
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Is it possible to run selenium (Firefox) web driver without a GUI?
parik
Updated on June 18, 2022Comments
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parik almost 2 years
I got this exception when I want to use
FireFox webdriver
raise WebDriverException "The browser appears to have exited " WebDriverException: Message: The browser appears to have exited before we could connect. If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
I read this question and updated my selenium, but I already have the same problem.
my code :
driver = webdriver.Firefox() time.sleep(5) driver.get('http://www.example.com')
UPDATE
I read this question
and now I have this error
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory Exception AttributeError: "'Service' object has no attribute 'process'" in <bound method Service.__del__ of <selenium.webdriver.firefox.service.Service object at 0x407a690>> ignored