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UPDATE September 22, 2018: Just set the BROWSER environment variable!

  • Still can’t launch Firefox from Windows Subystem From Linux without a Selenium server and some hacks that nobody has w working (Chrome works though)
The problem with browser testing in WSL is that it relies on opening and controlling a web browser, and browsers don’t work on WSL at present as it deliberately doesn’t include X Windows or some other GUI manager - it’s meant to be command line after all. So while you can apt-get firefox, trying to actually run it isn’t going to work.

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For Firefox (incomplete)

Install geckodriver on Windows. Note that the modern webdriver for Firefox is now known as Marionette, but that, if I understand correctly, the old webdriver is used for remote connections such as the one we're setting up.

Try something similar to the Chrome code below, but with :firefox instead of :chrome

Get errors such as 'Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property' and try Chrome instead

  • Oh well maybe I’ll eventually find the time to make it work with Firefox!
  • In the meantime I wrote open-day-in-browser.rb which only works on Mac and not on WSL! Someday!

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