Selenium using Java - The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property

Question

I am trying to launch Mozilla but still I am getting this error:

Exception in thread \"main\" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver

Answer 1

1. Download gecko driver from the seleniumhq website (Now it is on GitHub and you can download it from Here) .
   2. You will have a zip (or tar.gz) so extract it.
   3. After extraction you will have geckodriver.exe file (appropriate executable in linux).
   4. Create Folder in C: named SeleniumGecko (Or appropriate)
   5. Copy and Paste geckodriver.exe to SeleniumGecko
   6. Set the path for gecko driver as below

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System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\geckodriver-v0.10.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();