Firefox 38 doesn't work with WebDriver 2.45.1

[szimek]

Firefox beta has been just updated to version 38 and it no longer works with WebDriver 2.45.1. I'm getting the following error:

Using FirefoxDriver directly...
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver
ERROR - Unable to start a WebDriver session.

/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1877
      var result = fn();
                   ^
Error: Failed to install profile; firefox terminated with Result(code=null, signal=SIGSEGV)
    at Error (<anonymous>)
    at /Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/firefox/binary.js:238:15
    at [object Object].promise.ControlFlow.runInFrame_ (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1877:20)
    at [object Object].promise.Callback_.goog.defineClass.notify (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:2464:25)
    at [object Object].promise.Promise.notify_ (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:563:12)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object.goog.array.forEach (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/array/array.js:203:43)
    at [object Object].promise.Promise.notifyAll_ (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:552:16)
    at [object Object].goog.async.run.processWorkQueue [as _onTimeout] (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/async/run.js:125:21)
    at Timer.listOnTimeout [as ontimeout] (timers.js:112:15)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
    at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.acquireSession_ (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:155:22)
    at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.createSession (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:129:30)
    at new Driver (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/firefox/index.js:272:36)
    at [object Object].DirectDriverProvider.getNewDriver (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/lib/driverProviders/direct.js:75:16)
    at [object Object].Runner.createBrowser (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/lib/runner.js:180:37)
    at /Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/lib/runner.js:257:21
    at _fulfilled (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:797:54)
    at self.promiseDispatch.done (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:826:30)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:759:13)
    at /Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:573:44
    at flush (/Users/.../node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:108:17)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:442:13)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:499:11)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:929:3

The latest stable version of Firefox (37.01) works fine. I'm using OS X 10.10.2, protractor 2.0.0 and selenium-webdriver 2.45.1.

[andreastt]

@barancev?

[barancev]

Summoning @jleyba, it seems to be a javascript binding issue.

[barancev]

By the way, do you use a custom Firefox profile or just allow Selenium to create a new empty profile?

[szimek]

I'm not sure, I guess (hope) it's creating a new empty one.

[jleyba]

All Selenium 2.45.1 tests pass against Firefox 38.0b1 on Ubuntu 14.04.

Will check OSX when I have a chance, but it may be a few days.

[szimek]

Sorry, false alarm. I've just reinstalled Firefox 38 beta on top of 37 stable (previously it updated itself automatically) and everything works fine. Most likely it was some issue with permissions caused by Firefox updater.

[mgol]

I experience the same issue, see angular/protractor#2134. I got my Firefox 37 updated to v38 normally. I think this issue should be reopened.

[markvantilburg]

2.45.0: Firefox 38 crashes after every test.
Windows 2012 R2 server, Firefox 38, empty profile.

[tobli]

Same issue, running on OS X 10.10.3

[feigaoxyz]

same issue,
selenium 2.45.0
firefox 38.0
os x 10.9.5