Selenium "Unable to find a matching set of capabilities" despite driver being in /usr/local/bin

for me it was enough to just upgrade FF

Mac user here.

I fixed this issue by making sure Firefox is named “Firefox” and in the “Applications” folder. I had called it “Firefox 58” before (I have multiple versions).

Just sharing my success case here

Note: Remember the Architecture matters here, Window 64/32 or Linux 64/32. Make sure you download the right 64/32 bit Selenium Webdriver, 64/32 Geckodriver.

My configuration was as follows:

Linux: Centos 7 64bit, Window 7 64bit

Firefox: 52.0.3

Selenium Webdriver: 3.4.0 (Windows), 3.8.1 (Linux Centos)

GeckoDriver: v0.16.0 (Windows), v0.17.0 (Linux Centos)

Working Code (Without Proxy Settings)

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/home/seleniumproject/geckodrivers/linux/v0.17/geckodriver");

ProfilesIni ini = new ProfilesIni();


// Change the profile name to your own. The profile name can 
// be found under .mozilla folder ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile. 
// See you profile.ini for the default profile name

FirefoxProfile profile = ini.getProfile("default"); 

DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
cap.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);

FirefoxBinary firefoxBinary = new FirefoxBinary();

GeckoDriverService service =new GeckoDriverService.Builder(firefoxBinary)
        .usingDriverExecutable(new File("/home/seleniumproject/geckodrivers/linux/v0.17/geckodriver"))
        .usingAnyFreePort()
        .build();
try {
    service.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions().setBinary(firefoxBinary).setProfile(profile).addCapabilities(cap);

driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
driver.get("https://www.google.com");

System.out.println("Life Title -> " + driver.getTitle());
driver.close();

Working Code (With Proxy Settings)

    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/home/seleniumproject/geckodrivers/linux/v0.17/geckodriver");

    String PROXY = "my-proxy.co.jp";
    int PORT = 8301;


    ProfilesIni ini = new ProfilesIni();


    // Change the profile name to your own. The profile name can 
    // be found under .mozilla folder ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile. 
    // See you profile.ini for the default profile name

    FirefoxProfile profile = ini.getProfile("default"); 


    com.google.gson.JsonObject json = new com.google.gson.JsonObject();
    json.addProperty("proxyType", "manual");
    json.addProperty("httpProxy", PROXY);
    json.addProperty("httpProxyPort", PORT);
    json.addProperty("sslProxy", PROXY);
    json.addProperty("sslProxyPort", PORT);

    DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
    cap.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);
    cap.setCapability("proxy", json);


    FirefoxBinary firefoxBinary = new FirefoxBinary();

    GeckoDriverService service =new GeckoDriverService.Builder(firefoxBinary)
            .usingDriverExecutable(new File("/home/seleniumproject/geckodrivers/linux/v0.17/geckodriver"))
            .usingAnyFreePort()
            .usingAnyFreePort()
            .build();
    try {
        service.start();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions().setBinary(firefoxBinary).setProfile(profile).addCapabilities(cap);

    driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
    driver.get("https://www.google.com");

    System.out.println("Life Title -> " + driver.getTitle());
    driver.close();

Got the same error on a droplet at DigitalOcean – FireFox was not installed . Stack trace of error was as seen below –

exception_class 
<class 'selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException'>
json    
<module 'json' from '/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py'>
message 
'Unable to find a matching set of capabilities'
response    
{'status': 500,
 'value': '{"value":{"error":"session not created","message":"Unable to find a '
          'matching set of capabilities","stacktrace":""}}'}
screen  
None
self    
<selenium.webdriver.remote.errorhandler.ErrorHandler object at 0x7f428e3f10f0>
stacktrace  
None
status  
'session not created'
value   
{'error': 'session not created',
 'message': 'Unable to find a matching set of capabilities',
 'stacktrace': ''}
value_json  
('{"value":{"error":"session not created","message":"Unable to find a matching '
 'set of capabilities","stacktrace":""}}')

In my case, I only have Firefox Developer Edition but still throw same error.

After installing a standard Firefox version, it solves.

I had the same issue. My geckodriver was 32 bit and fireFox was 64. Resolved by updating geckodriver to 64 bit.

I had exactly the same issue when i was using selenium firefox()

>> webdriver.Firefox()

it was not working : throwing error like “Unable to find a matching set of capabilities”

Then i installed geckodriver.exe and that put that .exe file inside the both directory

C:Users<USER-NAME>AppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython36Scripts

and

C:Users<USER-NAME>AppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython36

and set these two paths in the environment setting

then it started working

Here’s the solution that solved it for me. Don’t overlook this point: make sure you’re using the correct 32/64 bit version of the binaries – it should be uniform – e.g. if the firefox is 64bit, so must be the geckodriver.

It seems like different workarounds are seem to make the error go away. After ensuring you have downloaded and installed the 64bit versions for Firefox and geckodriver.exe, update the PATH with the location of the geckodriver.exe. What may also help before running the script, launch the geckodriver.exe which opens a cmd like window. Now if you run the py script, you shouldn’t run into the error below:

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: Unable to find a matching set of capabilities

I had this same issue, and the problem was related to using Firefox ESR (I’m on Debian). To be more specific, I’m on Debian 10 using 64-bit Firefox 68.11.0esr, python3.7, selenium 3.141.0, and geckodriver 0.27.0.

Here’s the standard example I used that failed:

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("http://google.com")

As recommended in this answer, I changed:

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

to

browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary="/usr/bin/firefox-esr")

and it worked.

If you don’t know the path to firefox-esr, you can run sudo find / -name firefox-esr on the command line. Several should come up.