Selenium 3.0 Firefx Driver fails with org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session

firefox, geckodriver, java, selenium, selenium-firefoxdriver

Solution

this issue is solved with geckodriver 0.15 and selenium 3.3 version.

Problem

Selenium 3.0 Firefx Driver fails with org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. ``` System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "..<Path>../geckodriver.exe"); capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox(); capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true); driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities); Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{marionette=true, firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@23aa363a, browserName=firefox, moz:firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@23aa363a, version=, platform=ANY}], required capabilities = Capabilities [{}] Build info: version: '3.0.0', revision: '350cf60', time: '2016-10-13 10:48:57 -0700' System info: host: 'D202540', ip: '10.22.19.193', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_45' Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:91) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:601) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:241) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:128) at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:259) at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:247) at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:242) at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:135) ```

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