Selenium version 2.53 is not working with Firefox version 47

[rbhat0987]

OS: Windows 7

Selenium Version: 2.53

Browser: Firefox -->47

Expected Behavior -On calling driver = new FirefoxDriver(); FF browser should open

Actual Behavior - I just get the below error...

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 16:57:40'
System info: host: 'Admin-PC', ip: 'x.x.x.x', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_79'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
Session ID: 7b2e0b0e-b693-48b9-ab0f-a781972e53dd
Capabilities [{platform=WINDOWS, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=true, browserName=firefox, handlesAlerts=true, nativeEvents=false, webStorageEnabled=true, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, applicationCacheEnabled=true, takesScreenshot=true, version=47.0}]
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:665)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver$RemoteWebDriverOptions$RemoteWindow.maximize(RemoteWebDriver.java:945)
at test.WinHandle.main(WinHandle.java:21)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionInputBufferImpl.streamRead(SessionInputBufferImpl.java:139)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionInputBufferImpl.fillBuffer(SessionInputBufferImpl.java:155)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionInputBufferImpl.readLine(SessionInputBufferImpl.java:284)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:140)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:57)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:261)
at org.apache.http.impl.DefaultBHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultBHttpClientConnection.java:165)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.CPoolProxy.receiveResponseHeader(CPoolProxy.java:167)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:272)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:124)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:271)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:184)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:88)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:184)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:71)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:55)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.fallBackExecute(ApacheHttpClient.java:144)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.execute(ApacheHttpClient.java:90)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:142)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.execute(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:160)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver$LazyCommandExecutor.execute(FirefoxDriver.java:380)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:644)
... 2 more
And on the firefox browser exception pop up it displays the below error log
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: firefox.exe
Application Version: 47.0.0.5995
Application Timestamp: 574e5552
Fault Module Name: xul.dll
Fault Module Version: 47.0.0.5995
Fault Module Timestamp: 574e6409
Exception Code: 80000003
Exception Offset: 00746fcf
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

[davehunt]

Duplicate of #2110

[marcelosato]

i have same problem...

Exception in thread "Thread-2" org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 16:57:40'
System info: host: 'unknown68a86d26ce14', ip: '192.168.15.90', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.11.5', java.version: '1.8.0_40'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver

[z3liu]

I also have this problem.

[tweinreich]

Same here:

STANDARD_ERROR
    org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms.

Here are my specs:

Selenium: 2.53.0
OS: Windows 10
OS_Arch: x86_64
Firefox: 47.0
JVM: 1.8.0_92

[DiDebru]

I have the same error
Ubuntu 15.10 64bit
FF 47
Selenium 2.53
Could not open connection: Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console output: ╳ Firefox.","creator":"Canonical Ltd.","homepageURL":null},{"locales":["sv-SE"],"name":"Ubuntu Modifications","description":"Ubuntu-paket för Firefox.","creator":"Canonical Ltd.","homepageURL":null},{"locales":["uk"],"name":"Ubuntu Modifications","description":"Убунтівські доповнення до Firefox.","creator":"Canonical Ltd.","homepageURL":null},{"locales":["zh-CN"],"name":"Ubuntu Modifications","description":"Ubuntu 火狐扩展包.","creator":"Canonical Ltd.","homepageURL":null},{"locales":["zh-TW"],"name":"Ubuntu Modifications","description":"Ubuntu Firefox 擴充包。","creator":"Canonical Ltd.","homepageURL":null}],"targetApplications":[{"id":"{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}","minVersion":"9.0","maxVersion":"37.0a1"}],"targetPlatforms":[],"multiprocessCompatible":false,"signedState":2,"seen":true}

[dhruvgautam99]

i am also having a same problem on MAC OS El Capitan with Selenium 2.53