Selenium Not Working On Opensuse 42.1: The Browser Appears To Have Exited Before We Could Connect

I'm trying to run Selenium with Python 3.4 on a local machine with Gnome desktop and Firefox 47. However, the most basic task is already failing, i.e. opening the browser window. I

Solution 1:

Since firefox update to version 47 selenium is not running any more. A work around is using Marionette. That's also recommended by Mozilla.

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An alternative you can use is using older firefox version:

You can download the binary here and use it here:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binaryimportFirefoxBinary

binary = FirefoxBinary('path/to/binary')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)