Python Selenium and FireFox \ geckodriver

Question

I am currently trying to use selenium on a new machine and I am running into the problem and error of:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: %s If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details

I have read the following post about this and I can't seem to get this to work.

I am just using a simple test of:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('https://google.com')

I am using:

Firefox version 51.0.1 (32-bit)

I have tried both selenium version 2.53.6 and 3.0.2

I have tried to download the Geckodriver and added to the system variable path.

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong. Should I use an older version of selenium or am I doing something wrong with the driver?

Any help here will be great.

Answer 1

Just had the same issue.

Here is how I resolved it.

1. Uninstall Selenium
2. Install it again with pip install selenium
3. Install Geckodriver with Homebrew: brew install Geckodriver
4. Append the hombrew install Geckodriver path to your driver instantiation: driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/usr/local/bin/geckodriver')

Hope this helps

Answer 2

use my script to install all software and test installation

https://github.com/ultimosparc/work_samples

Regards, Sparc