How to use setAndroidActivity method of org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions class

Try giving the Firefox binary absolute path as a parameter in your code and when invoking from win7 provide this as in input to your JSP and then it could solve the problem. From your above stack trace it says firefox binary cannot be found in /usr/bin/firefox but you are trying to invoke the webdriver in win7 where the path is different.

Receiving org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot find firefox binary in PATH running tests in Selenium IDE with Webdriver playback

The easiest way to exit the page load wait early is to set the page load timeout. When the timeout expires, you can catch the TimeoutException and proceed with the next step of your test. The code to invoke this would look something like the following:

// Set the page load timeout to 10 seconds.
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

try {
  driver.get("http://url/to/my/slow/loading/page");
} catch (TimeoutException e) {
  // Ignore the exception.
}

// Proceed with your next step here.

Note that you may have to use a WebDriverWait or similar to ensure the element you're interested in is present on the page.

This is how I got it to work finally !!

 driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("label[for='surveyForm\\:surveyUrlType\\:1']")).click()

Although this is an old question and the OP has most probably solved it, it came up first in a google search for same issue and I thought to add my solution in case it helps anyone.

For poi 4.1.7 I used font.setBold( true ) instead of font.setBoldweight( Font.BOLDWEIGHT_BOLD )

To put it into the context of the post's question, the author could change their code

From: headerFont2.setBoldweight(Font.BOLDWEIGHT_BOLD);

To: headerFont.font.setBold( true );

Given that they have also imnported Font class:

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Font;

Unfortunately Selenium WebDriver 2.53.0 is not compatible with Firefox 47.0. The WebDriver component which handles Firefox browsers (FirefoxDriver) will be discontinued. As of version 3.0, Selenium WebDriver will need the geckodriver binary to manage Firefox browsers. More info here and here.

Therefore, in order to use Firefox 47.0 as browser with Selenium WebDriver 2.53.0, you need to download the Firefox driver (which is a binary file called geckodriver as of version 0.8.0, and formerly wires) and export its absolute path to the variable webdriver.gecko.driver as a system property in your Java code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/path/to/geckodriver");

Luckily, the library WebDriverManager can do this work for you, i.e. download the proper Marionette binary for your machine (Linux, Mac, or Windows) and export the value of the proper system property. To use this library, you need to include this dependency into your project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
    <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.0</version>
</dependency>

... and then execute this line in your program before using WebDriver:

WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();

A complete running example of a JUnit 4 test case using WebDriver could be as follows:

public class FirefoxTest {

    protected WebDriver driver;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setupClass() {
        WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();
    }

    @Before
    public void setupTest() {
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    }

    @After
    public void teardown() {
        if (driver != null) {
            driver.quit();
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void test() {
        // Your test code here
    }
}

Take into account that Marionette will be the only option for future (for WebDriver 3+ and Firefox 48+), but currently (version 0.9.0 at writing time) is not very stable. Take a look to the Marionette roadmap for further details.

UPDATE

Selenium WebDriver 2.53.1 has been released on 30th June 2016. FirefoxDriver is working again with Firefox 47.0.1 as browser.

set webdriver.chrome.driver instead of webdriver.chromedriver.driver

 System.setProperty("webdriver.chromedriver.driver",
           "C://Users//balwinder//Desktop//chromedriver.exe");

Should be:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
           "C:\\Users\\balwinder\\Desktop\\chromedriver.exe");

OR

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
           "C:/Users/balwinder/Desktop/chromedriver.exe");

NOTE: it will work only if you are first setting the system property and then instantiating chrome driver..

In order to use ChromeDriver undetectable to Distil checkpoints (which are described nicely in this stackoverflow post), you will need to ensure that your browser does not contain any variable in its window or document prototypes that reveal that you are using a webdriver, as the one you mention.

You can use software as Selenium along with ChromeDriver and Chrome as long as you take some precautions and make some fixes to the binaries. This method will apply only to headed version, if you wish to use headless, you would need to take additional measurements to pass window/rendering tests, described here.

1. Fix Chrome binary, or use an old version

First, lets deal with that navigator.webdriver set to True. This is defined by W3C protocol here as part of 'NavigatorAutomationInformation' of browsers, which extends the Navigator interface. How to remove it? That project has a lot of files, third party stuff, blink web runtimes, etc. So, instead of becoming crazy trying to figure out how this works, as Chromium is open-source, just be clever and search google for the commit which incorporated that. Here is the link. Pay attention to these files:

• third_party/WebKit/Source/core/frame/Navigator.h, which holds the line of code:

   `bool webdriver() const { return true; }` 
  
  This method is supossed to always return true, as you can see.
  

• third_party/WebKit/Source/core/frame/Navigator.idl, which contains the extensions of Navigators, included our

  `Navigator implements NavigatorAutomationInformation;` 
  
  which is being commited. Interesting, isn't it?
  

• third_party/WebKit/Source/core/frame/NavigatorAutomationInformation.idl contains the extension itself, with a read-only variable, which is webdriver:

       `[
           NoInterfaceObject, // Always used on target of 'implements'
           Exposed=(Window),
           RuntimeEnabled=AutomationControlled
       ] interface NavigatorAutomationInformation {
           readonly attribute boolean webdriver;
       };`
  

To get rid of this functionality, it should be enough commenting the line in Navigator.idl which extends Navigator with this functionality, and compile the source (compiling in linux here). However, this is a laborious task for almost any computer and can take several hours. If you look the date of the commit, it was on Oct 2017, so an option is to download any version of Chrome released before that date. To search for mirrors, you can google for inurl:/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/.

2. Fix ChromeDriver

Distil checks the regex rule '/\$[a-z]dc_/' against window variables, and ChromeDriver adds one as mentioned here which satisfies that condition. As they mention, you have to edit call_function.js amongst the source code, and redefine the variable var key = '$cdc_asdjflasutopfhvcZLmcfl_';. with something else. Also, probably easier, you can use an hex editor to update the existing binary.

If you decided to use an older version of Chrome -I guess you did-, you will need to use an appropiate version of ChromeDriver. You can know which one is fine for your Chrome version in the ChromeDriver downloads webpage. For example, for Chrome v61 (which fits your needs), you could use ChromeDriver 2.34. Once done, just put the ChromeDriver binary on '/usr/bin/local'.

3. Take other precautions

• Pay attention to your user-agent.
• Don't perform too many repeated requests.
• Use a (random) delay between requests.
• Use the Chrome arguments used here to mimic a normal user profile.

To close a single browser window:

driver.close();

To close all (parent+child) browser windows and end the whole session:

driver.quit();

You don't need to downgrade or anything. There is a design change in the Java Client version 2.0.0 as they mention on their site:

AppiumDriver is now an abstract class, use IOSDriver and AndroidDriver which both extend it.

So, just change your driver line to be:

dr = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"),capabilities);

Hope that helps...