Selenium runs on a variety of browsers, and Firefox is one of them. We will see how to run a test in the Firefox browser with the help of a Firefox driver.
Let us discuss the steps to follow for configuring the Firefox driver into our Selenium code:
Set the property for the driver path:
String driverPath="C:\\Users\\chromedriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",driverPath);
Alternatively, we can set the driver path under “Environment Variables”, this way we can skip setting path from the code.
Select the Path variable section under System Variables and click on the Edit button. Now put a semicolon “;” at the end of the path variable’s string and enter the full path of the directory having Chrome Driver executable file.
Setting up the FirefoxOptions and DesiredCapablities and Instantiating the FirefoxDriver:
FirefoxOptions options=new FirefoxOptions();
options.setCapability("marionette", true);
DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();
cap.setCapability(FirefoxOptions.FIREFOX_OPTIONS, options);
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver(cap);
Launching the URL in chrome browser:
Now we have instantiated the ChromeDriver object and its time to launch the URL in chrome browser.
driver.get("https://selflearning.io/");
Let us see the complete sample code to set up the chrome driver for running a Selenium script.
package SeleniumTest.SeleniumTest;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
public class FirefoxDriverTest
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
String driverPath="C:\\Users\\geckodriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",driverPath);
FirefoxOptions options=new FirefoxOptions();
options.setCapability("marionette", true);
DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();
cap.setCapability(FirefoxOptions.FIREFOX_OPTIONS, options);
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver(cap);
driver.get("https://selflearning.io/");
}
}
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