Unable to launch Firefox browser (Selenium 2.53 ,Firefox 37) | Selenium Forum
M
Posted on 12/01/2017
Hi Ashish

From last month I am using 2.53 selenium version and 37.0 Firefox version and It's worked perfectly..But Today Suddenly I am getting following error while launch the Firefox driver.

Request you please help me to resolve this Issue

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to bind to locking port 7054 within 45000 ms
Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 16:57:40'
os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_101'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.internal.SocketLock.lock(SocketLock.java:99)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.start(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:80)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.startClient(FirefoxDriver.java:271)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:119)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:218)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:211)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:207)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:120)
at Rediff_Table.main(Rediff_Table.java:15)

Thanks

M
Replied on 12/01/2017

try with ff45


M
Replied on 12/01/2017

Sorry It does not work with ff45..Still getting same Issue.


M
Replied on 12/01/2017

the issue is selenium cannot find firefox in your system hence the error.

to fix it its only one way to install different versions of firefox. try some other version.