How to use the gecko executable with Selenium

Question

I\'m using Firefox 47.0 with Selenium 2.53. Recently they have been a bug between Selenium and Firefox which make code not working. One of the solution is to use the Marion

Answer 1

The solutions above work fine for local testing and firing up browsers from the java code.If you fancy firing up your selenium grid later then this parameter is a must have in order to tell the remote node where to find the geckodriver:

-Dwebdriver.gecko.driver="C:\geckodriver\geckodriver.exe"

The node cannot find the gecko driver when specified in the Automation Java code.

So the complete command for the node whould be (assuming node and hub for test purposes live on same machine) :

java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver="C:\geckodriver\geckodriver.exe" -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar -role node -hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register

And you should expect to see in the node log :

00:35:44.383 INFO - Launching a Selenium Grid node
Setting system property webdriver.gecko.driver to C:\geckodriver\geckodriver.exe