Selenium: Selenium 3: Firefox Driver shuts with Unsupported marionette protocol version exception after launch

[anurag67475]

OS: OSx
Selenium Version: selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta-5d363.jar, selenium-server-standalone-latest.jar
Browser: Firefox
Browser Version: 43
Expected Behavior - Firefox driver should open and subsequent commands should run.
Actual Behavior - Firefox driver throws this exception
1466771927814 Marionette INFO Marionette enabled via build flag and pref
1466771928016 Marionette INFO Listening on port 2828
1466771928517 Marionette INFO Marionette enabled via command-line flag
1466771928569 Marionette INFO Accepted connection conn0 from 127.0.0.1:61582
1466771928570 Marionette DEBUG conn0 client <- {"applicationType":"gecko","marionetteProtocol":2}
1466771928607 Marionette INFO Closed connection conn0
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unsupported marionette protocol version 2, required 3 (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 1.45 seconds
Build info: version: '2.42.2', revision: '75f266f', time: '2014-07-30 09:11:33'
System info: host: 'Anurags-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '172.16.2.121', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.11.3', java.version: '1.8.0_65'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:683)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:247)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:130)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.(FirefoxDriver.java:219)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.(FirefoxDriver.java:214)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.(FirefoxDriver.java:131)
at cktest.pagecomponents.PageObjects.TestDataScripts.Rough.main(Rough.java:19)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)

Process finished with exit code 1

Steps to reproduce -

Run this test code and observe the behavior.

public class Rough {

public static void main(String[] args){
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/Users/anurag/Downloads/wires");
    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();

    capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);
    driver.get("http://google.com");
}

}

[jleyba]

I believe this means you need to upgrade your version of marionette:

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

[anurag67475]

Yes, I used the latest geckodriver-0.8.0-OSX.gz. Please try launching using the FirefoxDriver using the jar link provided for Selenium bug bash: https://github.com/bugbash/selenium3

Still think its a valid issue, was reproducing on Luke's machine too.

[lukeis]

@anurag67475 no, it works fine for me using the latest geckodriver 0.8.0, simon recently changed the code to fallback to wires if geckodriver is not found

[netzulo]

updated geckodriver to 0.10 with Selenium 3.0.0-beta-2 on JAVA , it's working on !

[NaveenKrishnamurthy]

Hi All,

I have updated the geckodriver to 0.10 with Selenium 3.0.0-beta-2 on JAVA, its not working still

I presume it may be because of OS version that i'm using which is Win 7 32 bit version, but the latest geckodriver downloaded is 64 bit.

Where can i find latest 32 bit geckodriver.exe ?

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Could anyone help me on this?

[igorquintaes]

I'm with a similar problem than @NaveenKrishnamurthy is.

My config:
GeckoDriver 0.10,
Selenium 3.0.0-beta2,
Firefox 43.0.1,
Windows 10 64 bit,
geckodriver.exe 64 bit,
C#.

My error:
InvalidOperationException: Unsupported Marionette protocol version 2, required 3

Also method that creates the driver:

private static void SetupFirefoxDriver()
{
            var driverService = FirefoxDriverService.CreateDefaultService(DriversPath, "geckodriver.exe");
            driverService.HideCommandPromptWindow = true;
            driverService.SuppressInitialDiagnosticInformation = true;

            var option = new FirefoxOptions();
            option.AddAdditionalCapability("browser.download.folderList", 2);
            option.AddAdditionalCapability("browser.download.dir", Config.DiretorioDeDownload);
            option.AddAdditionalCapability("browser.download.downloadDir", Config.DiretorioDeDownload);
            option.AddAdditionalCapability("browser.download.defaultFolder", Config.DiretorioDeDownload);

            SeleniumWebDriver.Driver = new FirefoxDriver(driverService, option, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60));
}

[lukeis]

@igorquintaes you have to use Firefox 48+, 43 won't work with geckodriver/marionette

[NaveenKrishnamurthy]

Yes, @lukeis is right...We have to use latest firefox version 48.01 currently in the market.

@lukeis , Could you help me to download geckodriver latest version for 32 bit. I'm using the latest firefox version.

[lukeis]

@NaveenKrishnamurthy you will have to request a 32bit geckodriver from that project. I believe they are aware of needing to make one. (I don't work on geckodriver at all, nor do i work at mozilla)

[smaretick]

I tried starting the geckodriver first (./geckodriver) then running in Python 3.5 & get:
Message: Missing 'marionetteProtocol' field in handshake

[smaretick]

when I use my old Macbook (MAC OS X 10.6.8, FF 30.0 Python 2.6.1) I don't have any issues as I do when I use geckodriver/marionette (MAC OS X 10.12.1, FF 39.0, Python 3.5.2)
That's as far as I've got so far

[ghost]

On debian 8 with Selenium v.3.0.2 using geckodriver v.0.10.0 , 0.11.0 and 0.11.1 running inside a virtualenv where the chromedriver works fine.

geckodriver Errors:

/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
 /local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Missing 'marionetteProtocol' field in handshake

Solution?

[cgoldberg]

@Ricalsin , you are using an outdated version of Firefox

[ghost]

@cgoldberg thanks! Solved it.

For others, possible help: https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2016/03/21/how-to-use-recent-version-of-firefox-in-debian-jessie/