Problems getting Browser Session with Firefox 3

[Stefan Scheidt]

Hi,

I have problems to get Selenium to work with Firefox 3: I tried to start selenium server in interactive mode and get a new browser session for Firefox 3 like described in the [RC Tutorial|http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/tutorial.html]. With Selenium 1.0 beta 1 I'm getting this exception:

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16:15:33.496 INFO [12] org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher - Preparing Firefox profile...
16:15:54.230 WARN [12] org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection - GET /selenium-server/driver/?cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*firefox&2=http://www.google.com HTTP/1.1
java.lang.RuntimeException: Firefox refused shutdown while preparing a profile
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.waitForFullProfileToBeCreated(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:277)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.launch(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:147)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.AbstractBrowserLauncher.launchRemoteSession(AbstractBrowserLauncher.java:24)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.createNewRemoteSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:312)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.getNewBrowserSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:113)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.getNewBrowserSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:78)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.getNewBrowserSession(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:653)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.doCommand(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:410)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handleCommandRequest(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:388)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handle(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:135)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:816)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:982)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:833)
at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244)
at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357)
at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher$FileLockRemainedException: Lock file still present! C:\DOKUME~1\ssc\LOKALE~1\Temp\customProfileDir98367f6f09a64844ab44af9895d6ffee\parent.lock
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.waitForFileLockToGoAway(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:235)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.waitForFullProfileToBeCreated(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:275)
... 18 more
16:15:54.308 DEBUG [12] org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection - RESPONSE:
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:15:33 GMT
Server: Jetty/5.1.x (Windows XP/5.1 x86 java/1.6.0_06
Connection: close
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When doing this, my process explorer tool shows new firefox processes for each test, started with this command by selenium:

"C:\Programme\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "-profile" "C:\DOKUME~1\ssc\LOKALE~1\Temp\customProfileDir25765ace0260498f95ff3cc2e3d8ede0 " "-chrome" "chrome://killff/content/kill.html"

This processes keeps a lock on the "parent.lock" files, e.g. on "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\ssc\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp\customProfileDir25765ace0260498f95ff3cc2e3d8ede0\parent.lock"

I then tried the current nightly build (selenium-remote-control-1.0-20080626.090504-453-dist.zip) an I'm getting this exception:

{code}
16:16:59.231 INFO [12] org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher - Preparing Firefox profile...
16:17:19.309 ERROR [12] org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory - Failed to start new browser session, shutdown browser an clear all session data
java.lang.RuntimeException: Timed out waiting for profile to be created!
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.waitForFullProfileToBeCreated(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:212)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.launch(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:88)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.AbstractBrowserLauncher.launchRemoteSession(AbstractBrowserLauncher.java:26)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.createNewRemoteSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:318)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.getNewBrowserSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:115)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory.getNewBrowserSession(BrowserSessionFactory.java:80)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.getNewBrowserSession(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:673)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.doCommand(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:376)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handleCommandRequest(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:353)
at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.handle(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:114)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:816)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:982)
at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:833)
at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244)
at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357)
at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)
16:17:19.371 DEBUG [12] org.openqa.selenium.server.FrameGroupCommandQueueSet - clearing queue set
16:17:19.371 INFO [12] org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler - Got result: Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser on session null
16:17:19.371 DEBUG [12] org.mortbay.http.HttpContext - Handled by org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler in HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
16:17:19.371 DEBUG [12] org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection - RESPONSE:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:16:59 GMT
Server: Jetty/5.1.x (Windows XP/5.1 x86 java/1.6.0_06
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 66
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After this there still is a "C:\DOKUME~1\ssc\LOKALE~1\Temp\customProfileDir..." directory but this time no firefox.exe process.

Can anyone reproduce this? (I can on a second machine) Are there any positive tests of selenium 1.0 beta 1 with firefox 3?

Any feedback would be welcomed!

Regards
Stefan

[Stefan Scheidt]

It seem's that I'm not alone, see http://jira.openqa.org/browse/SRC-225. I filed e new bug report for Win XP here: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/SRC-494

Stefan

[Guy Hill]

There seems to be a problem with Firefox 3. As this version is still new at the Beta stage, there are so many bugs. Use Selenium with Firefox 2.10 or something and not only Firefox 2.0. I had the same problem and now everything is fine.

[Stefan Scheidt]

Hi,

I have updated http://jira.openqa.org/browse/SIDE-171.

Stefan