I'm still fairly new to Selenium and am trying to create some minimally passing test cases (I guess you could call them the equivalent of a "hello world" program in a sense).
I tried to create an instance of the Firefox Driver like this:
var options = new FirefoxOptions()
{
BrowserExecutableLocation = @"C:\Program Files(x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe",
Profile = new FirefoxProfile(),
LogLevel = FirefoxDriverLogLevel.Debug
};
firefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
However, when I ran the test, I got the following error: Unable to find a matching set of capabilities. Several other answers I read on Stack Overflow and elsewhere suggested that the way to fix this is to explicitly specify the location of the binary file, like this:
firefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxBinary(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"), new FirefoxProfile());
When I try that, it works, but I get the following compiler warning:
Warning CS0618 'FirefoxDriver.FirefoxDriver(FirefoxBinary, FirefoxProfile)' is obsolete: 'FirefoxDriver should not be constructed with a FirefoxBinary object. Use FirefoxOptions instead. This constructor will be removed in a future release.'
If the second version works, why doesn't the first version work as well, given that I clearly specified the BrowserExecutableLocation in FirefoxOptions? Is there a way to make something like the first way I tried work in order to avoid using the second, deprecated constructor?
FWIW, I'm using Firefox 52.2.0, and my NuGet packages are set as follows:
<packages>
<package id="Selenium.Firefox.WebDriver" version="0.18.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Selenium.WebDriver" version="3.4.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Selenium.WebDriver.IEDriver" version="3.4.0" targetFramework="net452" />
</packages>