Unable to launch the Edge browser using the WebDriver 2.53.0 | Selenium Forum
M
Posted on 28/05/2016
I have written the below code to launch the Edge browser:

[code:bomqmsml]System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver","C:\\Eclipse\\Drivers\\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe");
WebDriver ed = new EdgeDriver();
ed.get("hhtp://www.google.com");[/code:bomqmsml]


I'm getting the below error:
[color=#FF0000:bomqmsml][00:27:40.776] - Listening on http://localhost:17709/

[00:27:43.056] - Stopping server.

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unknown error (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 2.29 seconds
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: 'LAPTOP-MTDHI91G', ip: '10.0.0.112', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_92'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:678)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:249)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:144)
at org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.<init>(EdgeDriver.java:152)
at org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.<init>(EdgeDriver.java:141)
at org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.<init>(EdgeDriver.java:98)
at Selenium_WebDriver_Part1.Drivers.main(Drivers.java:58)
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -agentlib:jvmhook
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xrunjvmhook -Xbootclasspath/a:"C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\Unified Functional Testing\bin\java_shared\classes";"C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\Unified Functional Testing\bin\java_shared\classes\jasmine.jar"

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M
Replied on 30/05/2016

have you downloaded exe from here?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49962