Receiving org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot find firefox binary in PATH running tests in Selenium IDE with Webdriver playback

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 5558

I keep on getting the following errors when I attempt to run tests in Selenium IDE with
Webdriver playback.

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot find firefox binary in PATH.
Make sure firefox is installed. OS appears to be: VISTA Build info: version: ’2.32.0′,
revision: ’6c40c18′, time: ’2013-04-09 17:22:56′ System info: os.name: ‘Windows 7′,
os.arch: ‘amd64′, os.version: ’6.1′, java.ver sion: ’1.6.0_39′ Driver info: driver.version:
FirefoxDriver at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.Executable.(Executable.jav a:72)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxBinary.(FirefoxBinary.java:5 9) at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxBinary.(FirefoxBinary.java:5
5) at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.getBinary(FirefoxDriver.jav a:175)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.(FirefoxDriver.java:1 00) … 14 more

The error mentions not finding the firefox binary in PATH. I updated the Firefox binary
in the path and I still receive the same error message. The functions used in the test
case were one custom case and waitforelementpresent.

This is the variable value that I have in my path C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefox ESR
17

How can I resolve this?

Reported by smseese1 on 2013-04-25 16:23:21

[lukeis]

Hi,

Selenium IDE with WebDriver support has not been officially released yet! But that
is not the reason why you are facing this issue. The Firefox Driver is complaining
that it cannot find the Firefox binary. In some cases, when you start the Selenium
Server using the Java command you need to pass it the location to the Firefox binary
with the -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin=pathtoexecutable.

See the Firefox driver wiki page for more information at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver

Cheers,
Samit Badle
Selenium IDE Maintainer
@samitbadle
http://blog.reallysimplethoughts.com/

Reported by Samit.Badle on 2013-04-26 06:20:28

• Status changed: WorkingAsIntended
• Labels added: Component-IDE

[lukeis]

Hi Samit,

That worked!!! Thank you for your help!

Reported by smseese1 on 2013-04-26 15:33:44

[lukeis]

this is working

Reported by naga.sd.k on 2015-03-09 10:52:22

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:17:13

• Labels added: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit