When encountering the Selenium common exception selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException with the message “binary is not a firefox executable”, it means that the Firefox browser executable file specified in the Selenium configuration is not recognized as a valid executable.
This exception usually occurs when providing an invalid or incorrect path to the Firefox browser executable file.
To resolve this issue, you need to ensure that you provide the correct path to the Firefox browser executable file in your Selenium configuration. Here’s an example of how it can be done using Python:
from selenium import webdriver
# Set the path to the Firefox browser executable
firefox_path = "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"
# Configure Firefox driver with the executable path
firefox_options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
firefox_options.binary_location = firefox_path
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=firefox_options)
# Now you can use the driver for further actions
In the above example, we first set the path to the Firefox browser executable to the firefox_path variable. Then, we create a Firefox Options object and assign the path to the binary_location property of the options. Finally, we instantiate the Firefox driver with the specified options. This ensures that Selenium uses the correct executable file.