java - Selenium webdriver fails to start with Firefox 26+

Question

I was using selenium 2.35 with previous versions of firefox before it got updated to version firefox 26.0.My tests were running fine previously but now I end up getting the following error.

 org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console output:
*** LOG addons.manager: Application has been upgraded
*** LOG addons.xpi: startup
*** LOG addons.xpi: Skipping unavailable install location app-system-local
*** LOG addons.xpi: Skipping unavailable install location app-system-share
*** LOG addons.xpi: Ignoring file entry whose name is not a valid add-on ID: C:UsersVISHAL~1.SINAppDataLocalTempanonymous4627406201097696285webdriver-profileextensionswebdriver-staging
*** LOG addons.xpi: checkForChanges
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: Opening XPI database C:UsersVISHAL~1.SINAppDataLocalTempanonymous4627406201097696285webdriver-profileextensions.json
*** LOG addons.xpi: New add-on [email protected] installed in app-profile
*** Blocklist::_loadBlocklistFromFile: blocklist is disabled
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: Make addon app-profile:[email protected] visible
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG addons.xpi: New add-on {9F17B1A2-7317-49ef-BCB7-7BB47BDE10F8} installed in winreg-app-user
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: Make addon winreg-app-user:{9F17B1A2-7317-49ef-BCB7-7BB47BDE10F8} visible
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG addons.xpi: New add-on {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} installed in app-global
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: Make addon app-global:{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} visible
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG addons.xpi: New add-on {9F17B1A2-7317-49ef-BCB7-7BB47BDE10F8} installed in winreg-app-global
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG addons.xpi: New add-on [email protected] installed in winreg-app-global
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: Make addon winreg-app-global:[email protected] visible
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Save changes
*** LOG addons.xpi: Updating database with changes to installed add-ons
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: Updating add-on states
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: Writing add-ons list
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Starting timer
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Starting write
*** LOG DeferredSave/extensions.json: Write succeeded
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: XPI Database saved, setting schema version preference to 15
*** LOG addons.manager: shutdown
*** LOG addons.xpi: shutdown
*** LOG addons.xpi-utils: shutdown
*** LOG addons.xpi: Notifying XPI shutdown observers
*** LOG addons.manager: Async provider shutdown done
*** LOG addons.xpi: startup
*** LOG addons.xpi: Skipping unavailable install location app-system-local
*** LOG addons.xpi: Skipping unavailable install location app-system-share
*** LOG addons.xpi: Ignoring file entry whose name is not a valid add-on ID: C:UsersVISHAL~1.SINAppDataLocalTempanonymous4627406201097696285webdriver-profileextensionswebdriver-staging
*** LOG addons.xpi: checkForChanges
*** LOG addons.xpi: No changes found
JavaScript error: chrome://browser/content/urlbarBindings.xml, line 654: aUrl is undefined

I tried to downgrade the version of firefox but am unable to get any previous versions from the mozilla site.

I also tried all the selenium versions 2.36,2.37,2.38,2.39 but none of them seems to be compatible with firefox 26.0. There are errors in the code once I try to replace the selenium 2.35 with 2.36 to 2.39. These errors disappear when I replace again with 2.35.

Can anybody help me with the compatible versions of Selenium and Firefox?

Answer 1

You can use any version of selenium from 2.XX but there is only limitation that we can use only firefox25 or firefox 14.01 to 17.XX