Configuration:: Go To My Computer - Properties - Advanced System Settings

The document provides instructions for setting up Selenium 3.x to run Firefox on Windows. It details downloading and extracting the geckodriver file to a specific folder location. It then explains how to configure the system path variable to reference this folder so that Selenium can locate the geckodriver file and properly launch Firefox. Troubleshooting tips are provided for errors related to Selenium being unable to find the browser binary.

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Selenium

3.x Setup For Windows

This is important to set geckodriver path to run Firefox Browser using Selenium 3.x
version

Download latest geckodriver from this location:
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Extract the geckodriver and save the geckodriver at any location:
1. Assume you have the folder with the name workspace under your username
2. Navigate to the project location using Windows Explorer
3. Create a folder and name it “lib”
4. Copy the extracted file to this location
5. Get the complete path of the location
6. Example path: C:\Users\username\workspace\libs

Configuration:

• Go to My Computer -‐> Properties -‐> Advanced System Settings

• Click on Environmental Variable

• In system Variable, select the Path and click Edit

• Enter the following information in the variable value:

C:\Users\username\workspace\libs

• Click OK button

• Restart the system.

NOTE: Multiple directories needs to be separated by semi colon For Example: C:\Program
Files; C:\Users\username\workspace\libs

NOTE: geckodriver.exe name should not be in the path, only the folder location should be
in the path

Image is attached below

If you see this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Anil
Tomar/PycharmProjects/SeleniumWD2Tutorial/basicweb/RunFFTestsWindow
s.py", line 14, in <module>
ffTest.test()
File "C:/Users/Anil
Tomar/PycharmProjects/SeleniumWD2Tutorial/basicweb/RunFFTestsWindow
s.py", line 10, in test
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-‐packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line
150, in __init__
keep_alive=True)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-‐packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py",
line 92, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-‐packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py",
line 179, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-‐packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py",
line 236, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-‐packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py",
line 192, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Expected browser
binary location, but unable to find binary in default location, no
'moz:firefoxOptions.binary' capability provided, and no binary flag set on the
command line

Process finished with exit code 1

Then please follow these steps:

Find the location of your Firefox installation.
Usually it is -‐> C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

Add this to your code like this: