[AF Utilities]: Create Firefox Intance soft-fails

Hi,

@AnotherFraudUser FYI - I had to chose the palladian-selenium tag as I could notr find the “af-utilities” tag

Trying to catch up to the Just Knime It Challenge 9 to scrape the web, I tried using the nice AF Utilities to show how its done using different approaches. Though, Firefox launched, the Create Firefox Browser Instance Node errored out:

DEBUG NodeContainerEditPart            Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 (CONFIGURED)
DEBUG NodeContainerEditPart            Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 (CONFIGURED)
DEBUG ExecuteAction                   Creating execution job for 1 node(s)...
DEBUG NodeContainer                   Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 has new state: CONFIGURED_MARKEDFOREXEC
DEBUG NodeContainer                   Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 has new state: CONFIGURED_QUEUED
DEBUG NodeContainer                   Challenge 9 - Web Scraping and Analyzing Economic News 3 has new state: EXECUTING
DEBUG Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 doBeforePreExecution
DEBUG Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 has new state: PREEXECUTE
DEBUG Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Adding handler a3f318bb-9eb2-4520-a342-13fad8d1f2f4 (Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19: <no directory>) - 2 in total
DEBUG Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 doBeforeExecution
DEBUG Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 has new state: EXECUTING
DEBUG Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19 Start execute
INFO  Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Starting Firefox Instance
DEBUG Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       reset
ERROR Create Firefox Browser Instance 3:19       Execute failed: Process unexpectedly closed with status 0
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: 'DOSE', ip: '100.85.22.198', os.name: 'Windows 11', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.5'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver

Best
Mike

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Hi @mwiegand,

thanks for the info - just one additional question.
Which knime version are you using?

I am using the latest … 5.3 :confused:

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(New af-utility tag added to this category per user request)

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