Selenium Python selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused using geckodriver and firefox

Question

I\'m having issues running my automation test scripts. When I run my script, a browser will appear but it will not type the URL and waits for 10 seconds until it throws an e

Answer 1

In absence of the error stack trace configuration issues are pretty hard to debug. Having said that I don't see any major issues in your code block. You may require to perform some additional steps as follows :

• Pass the Key executable_path along with the Value referring to the absolute path of the GeckoDriver as follows :

  def setUp(self):
      binary = FirefoxBinary('/usr/bin/firefox/firefox')
      opts = FirefoxOptions()
      opts.add_argument("--headless")
      self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary, firefox_options=opts, executable_path='/path/to/geckodriver')
      driver = self.driver
      driver.get('https://www.amazon.com/')
  

• Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.

• Use CCleaner tool to wipe off all the OS chores before and after the execution of your Test Suite.
• If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
• Take a System Reboot.
• Execute your @Test.
• Always invoke driver.quit() within tearDown(){} method to close & destroy the WebDriver and Web Client instances gracefully.

Alternative

As an alternative you can also try to use the set_headless(headless=boolean_value) as follows :

def setUp(self):
    binary = FirefoxBinary('/usr/bin/firefox/firefox')
    opts = FirefoxOptions()
    opts.set_headless(headless=True)
    self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary, firefox_options=opts, executable_path='/path/to/geckodriver')
    driver = self.driver
    driver.get('https://www.amazon.com/')

Here you can find a detailed discussion on How to make firefox headless programatically in Selenium with python?

Answer 2

These two commands both start a webdriver on the same port. The second one causes the error because the port is already in use:

self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=opts)

To correct this, set the options before initializing the driver (in the first command).

self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary, firefox_options=opts)