[FIXED] Trying to launch firefox browser using selenium jar files in eclipse getting exception

Issue

I'm trying to launch the Firefox browser from Eclipse using Selenium as I'm learning Selenium.

My tutor wrote the below code but when I'm trying the same code I get this exception-

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException:

The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property; for more information, see

Link1. The latest version can be downloaded from

Link2

Code:

package appselenium1;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class A {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("http://www.gmail.com");
  }

}

Solution

You are facing this exception, because you have not used gecko driver , which is required for launching and sending command in selenium.

You can download the latest version of gecko version from here

Try this :

package appselenium1;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class A {

static WebDriver driver ; 

public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.20.1-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.gmail.com");
}
}  

Answered By - cruisepandey