Geb: How to use Marionette instead of selenium Webdriver?

Question

It is known issue that, Firefox version 47.0.1 is not compatible with Selenium latest version. Even Firefox is announcing to use Marionette instead. Can someone give some details instruction on how to use Marionette with Geb?

As a maven project, I tried all the version of Selenium with Geb but could not be successfull. I tried the following versions;

2.50.0

2.50.1

2.51.0

2.52.0

2.53.0

2.53.1

2.6.0

2.7.0

2.8.0

2.9.0

If this is not the right place to ask this, please guide me.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '16 at 19:27

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I have the next configuration in GebConfig.groovy:

firefox {
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","path/geckodriver")
    driver = {new MarionetteDriver()}
}

I am using selenium 3.0.1 and I using the -Dgeb.env=firefox system property in order to make sure it takes my Firefox configuration and it working fine for me

Regards

answered Oct 31 '16 at 19:27

Nelson Raul Cabero Mendoza

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I also use Selenium 3.0.1 from Geb with multiple drivers such as HtmlUnit (incl. JS), PhantomJS, Firefox, IE, Edge, Chrome. It works nicely with all of them. In order to make it less painful to download all the drivers, I recommend [WebDriverManager](https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager). – kriegaex Feb 20 '17 at 06:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 14 '16 at 09:56

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Download the latest version of selenium standard version 2.53.1 from selenium.hq.org.downloads and try to use the newest version of the Firefox.

edited Jul 14 '16 at 09:56

Mahbub Rahman

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answered Jul 14 '16 at 06:53

kumar

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 18 '16 at 19:41

With version 48 of Firefox, it looks like the only solution is using marionnette, however I have not been able to get this to work in Geb yet.

This is what I have tried in GebConfig.groovy:

environments {

firefox {
    driver = {
        DesiredCapabilities dc = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
        LoggingPreferences prefs = new LoggingPreferences();
        prefs.enable(LogType.BROWSER, Level.WARNING);
        dc.setCapability(CapabilityType.LOGGING_PREFS, prefs);
        dc.setCapability("marionette", true);

        String currentDir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
        String marionetteDriverLocation = currentDir + "/WebDriver/wires";
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", marionetteDriverLocation);

        FirefoxProfile p = new FirefoxProfile();
        p.setPreference("webdriver.gecko.driver", marionetteDriverLocation);
        p.setPreference("webdriver.log.file", "/tmp/firefox_console");
        p.setPreference("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false);
        p.setPreference("geo.enabled", false);
        p.setPreference("plugins.update.notifyUser", false);

        p.setPreference("datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled", false);
        p.setPreference("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
        p.setPreference("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled",false);
        p.setPreference("datareporting.healthreport.service.firstRun", false);
        p.setPreference("datareporting.healthreport.logging.consoleEnabled", false);
        p.setPreference("reader.parse-on-load.enabled", false);

        dc.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, p);

        def driver = new FirefoxDriver(dc)
        driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(45, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        return driver
    }

Thank you Jeff. I will give it a try and let you know the outcome. :-) — Mahbub Rahman, Aug 19 '16 at 02:57
Did you manage to get i to work? It seems to me, that @jeff-lowery is also struggeling? — Hoof, Aug 31 '16 at 12:17
Right, I have not got this working, but the above is based on what I could glean elsewhere. I'm either close or not close at all ;-P — Jeff Lowery, Aug 31 '16 at 20:58

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 09 '17 at 01:21

It should work with any of the late Selenium versions. (everything > 2.50 not sure for earlier versions)

Marionette is an external driver, it's not included in the Selenium packages (yet?)

You need to Download the gecko driver here https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases then point selenium to the location of the geckodriver.exe You can do that as Nelson said before in GebConfig with:

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.MarionetteDriver

driver = {
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","path/geckodriver")
    new MarionetteDriver()
}

to make that work you will need some dependencies in your buildscript, I'm working with gradle, yours might look different, just look into what yours need to look like on maven central

compile('info.novatec.testit:webtester-support-marionette:2.0.4') { transitive = false }
compile "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-firefox-driver:$seleniumVersion"
compile "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:$seleniumVersion"

(selenium support might not be necessary for you)

If you need more help, a more specific description of where you are failing would be helpful, you can also look here for a working project (with maven): http://seleniumsimplified.com/2016/04/how-to-use-the-firefox-marionette-driver/

Ran this and got: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'selenium-java-gradle-template'. > Could not get unknown property 'seleniumVersion' for object of type org.gradle.api.internal. artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler. — Bob Small, May 10 '17 at 14:48
Better answer: Ran this and got: "A problem occurred evaluating root project 'selenium-java-gradle-template'. > Could not get unknown property 'seleniumVersion' for object of type org.gradle.api.internal. artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler." So I looked up how to set a variable in gradle and found this: def myVar = "theVar" in our case I just added this to the build.gradle def seleniumVersion = "3.4.0" — Bob Small, May 10 '17 at 14:54
Oh, yeah, of course, either declare `seleniumVersion` as a variable. Or replace it in my example with whatever version you're using. So the last `compile` could then look like: `"org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:3.4.0"` — Jay, May 10 '17 at 18:36

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 19 '22 at 07:52

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public class Driver {
public FirefoxDriver getFirefoxDriver(){
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "./geckodriver.exe");
    System.setProperty(FirefoxDriver.SystemProperty.DRIVER_USE_MARIONETTE, "true");
    System.setProperty(FirefoxDriver.SystemProperty.BROWSER_LOGFILE, "/dev/null");
    FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
    options.setHeadless(true);
    return new FirefoxDriver(options);

}

}

answered Sep 19 '22 at 07:52

Hashan Madushanka

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