Protractor test is not starting on Firefox

[acostaf]

I have got a set of test that run fine on chrome but when I change the capabilities browserName from chrome to firefox don't even get a error info

Before
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'chrome',
'chromeOptions': { args: ['--test-type', 'show-fps-counter=true'] }
},

//After
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'firefox'
},

[juliemr]

Silly question, but do you have firefox installed on your machine? What sort of output do you get?

[acostaf]

Hi Julie

I do, I have got version 29 installed, the funny thing that I am not getting any error, just firefox passed and then returns.

[juliemr]

Any output from the selenium standalone?

[acostaf]

Nothing that is the funny thing, does not do anything

[acostaf]

Hi

I found the problem with firefox, basically my protractor config was not using any webdriver server setting but was using the default server, this way was quite handy since did not have start selenium by my self

In order to fix this issue I am starting selenium server by myself specifying firefox and chrome drivers

java -jar "C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\selenium\selenium-server-standalone-2.42.1.jar" -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\selenium\chromedriver.exe" -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

[juliemr]

Ah, OK. The problem was that your firefox is not in the default location (as described on the FirefoxDriver page). Glad you got it sorted out!

[calystoramesh]

I have a same problem , firefox is installed in the default location "c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" in windows XP,

capabilities: {
'browserName': 'firefox'
},

Using the selenium server at http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver[launcher] firefox passed

Process finished with exit code 1

my test script is not execute. Please help me

note : In chrome it's working fine

[acostaf]

Selenium console should tell you what is going in on with it, try to start you own selenium in order to see selenium error messages
java -jar "C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\selenium\selenium-server-standalone-2.42.1.jar" -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

[nareshsurya]

When I run my protractor scripts on Firefox, firefox window is opened but failed to open the target URL and getting the following error:
sing FirefoxDriver directly...
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver

c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\util.js:89
Error('Timed out waiting for the WebDriver server at ' + url));
^
Error: Timed out waiting for the WebDriver server at http://127.0.0.1:49587/hub
at Error (native)
at onResponse (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\util.js:89:11)
at c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\util.js:44:21
at c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\http\http.js:140:5
at ClientRequest. (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\index.js:174:7)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:169:7)
at Socket.socketErrorListener (http_client.js:258:9)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.acquireSession (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\webdriver.js:157:22)
at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.createSession (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\webdriver.js:131:30)
at new Driver (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\firefox\index.js:278:36)
at [object Object].DirectDriverProvider.getNewDriver (c:\node_modules\protractor\lib\driverProviders\direct.js:74:16)
at [object Object].Runner.createBrowser (c:\node_modules\protractor\lib\runner.js:190:37)
at c:\node_modules\protractor\lib\runner.js:280:21
at _fulfilled (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:834:54)
at self.promiseDispatch.done (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:863:30)
at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:796:13)
at c:\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:556:49
[launcher] Process exited with error code 1

Process finished with exit code 1

Can someone please help me out with this?

Regards,
Naresh Surya

[b-mcrae]

Hi @nareshsurya!

I recently encountered the same error as you. The quick fix solution for me was to uninstall Firefox 47 and downgrade to Firefox 36. You can find older versions of Firefox here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

I'm using selenium-webdriver 2.47.0. I'm not sure which is the latest version of Firefox that is supported, but just wanted to give you a quick fix at the moment! Perhaps someone can please expand upon this!

Thank you!

[freakaziod210]

@b-mcrae I love you!! I have been stumped on this for a few hours. My tests were working fine yesterday but when I ran them today they weren't. I guess Firefox updated somewhere in between.