Selenium starts the browser but shows an error as Message: Can not connect to the Service-CodePudding

The code starts the browser, stops at this step (line 5), and after a while throws an error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service

s = Service(r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=s)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
myPageTitle = driver.title
print(myPageTitle)
driver.quit()

Firefox - 95.0.2 Selenium - 4.1.0

I tried with chrome, same problem

Does anyone know what the problem is and how to solve it?

CodePudding user response：

As an argument to Service() instead of the firefox executable, you need to pass the absolute location of the GeckoDriver executable which can be downloaded from mozilla/geckodriver page.

So your effective code block will be:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service

s = Service(r'C:\path\to\geckodriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=s)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
myPageTitle = driver.title
print(myPageTitle)
driver.quit()