Selenium not working with Firefox 48

[nldoty]

It appears that Selenium does not play well with the latest version of Firefox, Version 48. I pulled all the code, installed the packages, and ran and received timeout errors (OSX 10.11.6). I ran the same build on a Windows 10 machine (Version 1607 Build 14393.51) and was able to complete all the tests.
I compared versions and realized the Firefox versions did not match - OSX machine was running Firefox 48, which is the latest version of Firefox.
I did some digging and found others had run into the same issue, as it is an ongoing problem: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/selenium-users/kDsWkujq0Y4/BNFeje9_EQAJ

Looking through the Selenium Github it seems this is an acknowledged issue as well: SeleniumHQ/selenium#2559

It seems the best quick way forward as per a comment in the google group thread (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/selenium-users/kDsWkujq0Y4/HoXsgMuhBwAJ) is to either switch back to Firefox 47.0.1 and turn off auto-updates or back to the Extended Support Release of Firefox 45. I have reverted back to Firefox 47.0.1 and can confirm that that will solve the issue for the time being.

Thanks!

[LaFrish]

Thanks for the update @nickdoty!

[AT89]

spent 2hrs going nuts. heres the FF45 link
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0/mac/en-US/

[swathikvsr]

Can you please let me know are they going to solve the issue with 48?(are they going to address this issue) or let me know if there is there any link where we can find if this issue is tracked by them(wanted to know the progress of the issue)?

[AT89]

Hello there is a different driver for FF 48, I remember it was geckodriver.

good resources:
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionette/WebDriver

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Can you please let me know are they going to solve the issue with 48?(are
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[AT89]

But using FF45 is much easier. i linked the download in the issue.

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[swathikvsr]

thanks got it understood the issue now