Firefox is showing "Cannot find firefox binary in PATH." error in MAC OS

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Firefox is showing "Cannot find firefox binary in PATH." error in MAC OS. As per my understanding this issue occurs if the Mozilla is not installed in their default location. I am new in MAC OS

I have also tried with firefox profile and already I have set selenium provided DesiredCapabilities

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxBinary(new File("/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin")), profile);

I have also tried with different path of mozilla in MAC OS like:-

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
/Applications/Firefox.app

Also please provide a snippet for the same.

Chrome is working fine for me in MAC OS. Only Mozilla is creating problem

Surely, I am missing something. I am attaching the snapshot regarding same.

Also, Is there any method present by which I can locate any application installed location using java code?

spcial · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-24 07:01:12Z

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According to https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver there is a property you have to set to set the binary path:

webdriver.firefox.bin

so i assume you have to do following:

    System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin","/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin");
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

I hope this helps :)

answered Aug 24, 2015 at 7:01

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Shubham Jain Over a year ago

Thanks man :) ...... System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin","/Applications/Firefox20.0"); worked for me .. upvoted :)

Nipuna Prashan · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-04 12:09:49Z

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If you have installed firefox, check whether the Firefox application is in the /Applications folder. If not move the application to /Application folder and run the test again.

If above worked, you don't have to add a system property "webdriver.firefox.bin"

answered Sep 4, 2018 at 12:09

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MiB · Accepted Answer · 2021-11-26 17:18:51Z

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Possibly updated for the current situation with this I did this:

Installed geckodriver, available since 2018, to /usr/local/bin (arbitrary choice and made sure it could execute. This placement made it unnecessary to add it to my $PATH.
Installed Firefox to /Applications (I had the developer version)
Added this line to my setUp method: driver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxOptions().setHeadless(true));

All this in macOS 10.11 "Big Sur" (aarch64) using current selenium.

answered Nov 26, 2021 at 17:18

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