Selenium Failed to start firefox browser on server with Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))

Question

I run simple selenium code on my linux server but it return that error

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Failed to start browser:
other os error

My python selenium code is this-

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver

display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.google.com')
browser.save_screenshot('screenie.png')
browser.quit()

display.stop()

And I also used firefox headless code but it return same error.

If you are using selenium 3 then you will have to download geckodriver and have to specify its path when creating firefox driver. — sjethvani, Feb 06 '18 at 11:28
hey @sjethvani I also specify geckodriver but it return same error. — vipul gangwar, Feb 06 '18 at 11:37
check the browser version as well. It should be less than 48.0 version — whatsinthename, Feb 06 '18 at 12:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '18 at 12:27

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As you are using Display from pyvirtualdisplay you need to download the GeckoDriver binary from this site, place it anywhere within your system and explicitly mention the location of the GeckoDriver binary as per the following line of code to initiate the Web Browser Client :

browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\geckodriver.exe')

answered Feb 06 '18 at 12:27

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you can also place geckodriver anywhere on your PATH and not worry about specifying the location in code. This also has nothing to do with pyvirtualdisplay. – Corey Goldberg Feb 06 '18 at 15:05

Selenium Failed to start firefox browser on server with Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))

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