[🐛 Bug]: Fails to start a new session using Firefox v130, v131, v132 for Linux operating system

[prajaktak15]

What happened?

Not able to run scripts on selenium grid Firefox node 4.25, 4.26 for linux operating system.

It works fine if I start the node on 4.24

Error message while running scripts on firefox node:
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[�[1;31mERROR�[m] �[1;31m RunCukesByFeatureGSGWeb.feature » SessionNotCreated Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: Could not start a new session. Could not start a new session. Error while creating session with the driver service. Stopping driver service: Could not start a new session. Response code 400. Message: binary is not a Firefox executable

Command used to start Selenium Grid with Docker (or Kubernetes)

Docker compose file used:

selenium-tst-firefox:
    container_name: firefoxnode
    environment:
      - SE_EVENT_BUS_HOST=<server-host>
      - SE_EVENT_BUS_PUBLISH_PORT=<port>
      - SE_EVENT_BUS_SUBSCRIBE_PORT=<port>
      - SE_NODE_HOST=<node-host>
      - SE_NODE_PORT=<port>
      - REMOTE_HOST=https://${HOSTNAME}:<port>
      - SE_OPTS=<certificate-path>
      - SE_NODE_SESSION_TIMEOUT=600
      - SE_DRAIN_AFTER_SESSION_COUNT=100
      - SE_NODE_MAX_SESSIONS=1
      - SE_NODE_GRID_URL=<Hub-url>
      - JAVA_OPTS=-Djdk.httpclient.websocket.intermediateBufferSize=2000000
    image: node-firefox:4.26.0-20241101
    privileged: true
    logging:
      driver: "none"
    shm_size: 2gb
    ports:
      - <port>:<port>
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /dev/shm:/dev/shm
      - /opt/grid/cert:/home/seluser

Relevant log output

Error message while running scripts on firefox node:
[�[1;31mERROR�[m] �[1;31mFailures: �[m
[�[1;31mERROR�[m] �[1;31m  RunCukesByFeatureGSGWeb.feature » SessionNotCreated Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: Could not start a new session. Could not start a new session. Error while creating session with the driver service. Stopping driver service: Could not start a new session. Response code 400. Message: binary is not a Firefox executable

Operating System

RHEL 8

Docker Selenium version (image tag)

4.26.0-20241101

Selenium Grid chart version (chart version)

No response

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Thank you!

[prajaktak15]

Hello Team,

Is there any update on this issue.
Thank you.

[VietND96]

I am not able to reproduce. Can you share the test, where RemoteWebDriver is created with all browser options set?

[prajaktak15]

Here is the code:

		FirefoxOptions firefoxProxyOptions = new FirefoxOptions();
		firefoxProxyOptions.setCapability("acceptInsecureCerts", true);
		firefoxProxyOptions.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);
		firefoxProxyOptions.setPlatformName("LINUX");
		firefoxProxyOptions.setBrowserVersion("132.0");
		driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(HUB_URL), firefoxProxyOptions, false);
		driver.get(app_url);

Let me know if you need any other information.
Thank you.

[prajaktak15]

Hello Team,

Is there any update on this issue.
Thank you.

[VietND96]

Hi, please update in docker compose file
image: node-firefox:nightly
to verify and confirm. Thanks!

[prajaktak15]

Hello

Thank you for the fix.

I confirm it is working fine for Platform = Linux Browser = Firefox Version = v133.

Could you please let us know what was causing this issue? Thanks!

[VietND96]

The fix was: Moving installed Firefox directory back to /opt/firefox-$VERSION from /home/seluser/firefox
In a change, firefox is downloaded and extracted to /home/seluser/firefox then link to /usr/bin/firefox.
I guess due to your volume mount - /opt/grid/cert:/home/seluser causing firefox binary has issue with r/w perms or something.
/home/seluser could be mounted with different purposes by the user, to avoid disturbing the program executable, I moved it back /opt

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