WebDriverException: Message: The browser appears to have exited before we could connect error with GeckoDriver Selenium and Python

Question

There are about 100 posts about the same issue but none of them seem to work for me, hence asking again. I\'m trying to launch a Firefox browser using Python and Selenium an

Answer 1

Make sure (especially on Windows (Win 10)) that your browser and controller (python/C/java/perl/etc) is all either x64 or win32, Microsoft will not thunk between them anymore.

So, if your trying to control a 64 bit browser (what will be downloaded by default from firefox) from a x32 bit python, it will exit before you can connect.. go and install a win32 version of firefox for the magic to happen