My Challenges

I want to list some of the challenges that I have faced and the solutions that I have adopted.

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Since the upgrade dealing with Selenium-3, GeckoDriver and Marionette have been a big pain. I just reverted to the previously working version:

• Selenium-2.53.1 - downloaded from here.
• Firefox 46 - downloaded from here. 
• IEDriverServer - downloaded from the same folder as that of Selenium Standalone.
• For other browsers, I downloaded dependencies for Selenium 2.53.1 from this download page. 

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While launching Firefox, 2 browsers (one blank and one with Skype) would open up and my tests would fail. To solve this problem, I created a new profile and launched Firefox with that profile. I created profile as explained in detail on the mozilla support site here. I also made sure to select "Never check for updates (not recommended: security risk)" under Options --> Advanced --> Update

This is how you launch Firefox with specific profile

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ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni(); FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("CreatedProfile"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver("String profileName");

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