How to Install Firefox, Marionette GeckoDriver, Chrome, ChromeDriver for Selenium WebDriver on Mac

How to install and run a test against:

* Firefox, Marionette GeckoDriver
* Chrome, ChromeDriver

For Selenium WebDriver using Java on a Mac.

We also use a sample test project on github to make it easy to check if you have everything installed correctly.

If you use the github project then you'll see a check list you can use to keep your install simple.

[Karmaa]

Hi alan,
it seems that i can't make the .bash_profile .. i put the extracted gecko driver in folder named webdriver then when i run Gecko driver this is what i get in terminal:

Last login: Wed Nov 16 02:02:52 on ttys001
karma:~ aliya$ ; exit;
Segmentation fault: 11
logout

[Process completed]

Then when i open new window and type the command "vi .bash_profile " i get only this

".bash_profile" [New File]

what am doing wrong ?

[gabomoto]

All fine, but when i try to execute in intellij IDEA i recived this error:
The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property;
Intellij idea ask me for a sdk and i chose the jdk 1.8 folder
can you help me?

[slade]

I got the following error using the latest version of firefox (50.0.2) on my mac. Using selenium 3.0.1.

Ron$ mvn test -Dtest=MyFirstTest
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO]
[INFO] Building MyFirstSeleniumIntelliJMaven 1.0
[INFO]
[INFO]
[INFO] --- (default-resources) @ MyFirstSeleniumIntelliJMaven ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory
[INFO]
[INFO] --- (default-compile) @ MyFirstSeleniumIntelliJMaven ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] --- (default-testResources) @ MyFirstSeleniumIntelliJMaven ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory
[INFO]
[INFO] --- (default-testCompile) @ MyFirstSeleniumIntelliJMaven ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO]
[INFO] --- (default-test) @ MyFirstSeleniumIntelliJMaven ---
[INFO] Surefire report directory:


T E S T S

Running
Usage:
[OPTIONS]
Unknown option --port=17609
Dec 04, 2016 8:45:00 PM createSession
INFO: Attempting bi-dialect session, assuming Postel's Law holds true on the remote end
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 22.166 sec <<< FAILURE!
Time elapsed: 22.123 sec <<< ERROR!
The driver server has unexpectedly died!
Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:49:13 -0700'
System info: host: 'Rons-Mac-Mini.fios-router.home', ip: '192.168.1.4', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.12.1', java.version: '1.8.0_91'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver
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Results :

Tests in error:
The driver server has unexpectedly died!(..)

Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0

[INFO]
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO]
[INFO] Total time: 24.189 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-12-04T20:45:01-05:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/155M
[INFO]
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal (default-test) on project MyFirstSeleniumIntelliJMaven: There are test failures.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Please refer to for the individual test results.
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:

[yaroslavkabay]

Hi Alan
thank you very much for the video!

I have launched the test for Chrome and Firefox from the terminal. Everything is fine with it.

But I couldn't run the tests from IntelliJ IDEA.
In both cases (Firefox and Chrome) I got an error: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;

So I have added the following string under the startWebDriver method:
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/path to geckodriver"); - for FireFox
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path to geckodriver"); - for Chrome

After this everything worked fine for me.
I have FireFox 49.0.2 and Chrome 54...

Do I have any chance to get rid of extra string which I've inserted?