# \[AF Utilities\]: Create Firefox Intance soft-fails

**URL:** <https://forum.knime.com/t/af-utilities-create-firefox-intance-soft-fails/81227>\
**Category:** Community Extensions\
**Tags:** af-utility\
**Created:** [July 21, 2024, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/af-utilities-create-firefox-intance-soft-fails/81227 "2024-07-21T06:50:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mwiegand](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/mwiegand/32/66896_2.png) [@mwiegand](https://forum.knime.com/u/mwiegand)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/af-utilities-create-firefox-intance-soft-fails/81227/1 "2024-07-21T06:50:22Z")

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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:

```auto
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

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 ![image](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/8/28ede444dbebe50c3fce0e6a707e489249cac90a.png)

 ![image](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/9/995a3bead8f475c11574f1ad8f4bb7307f9def6f.png)

Best  
Mike

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**Author:** ![AnotherFraudUser](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/anotherfrauduser/32/16912_2.png) [@AnotherFraudUser](https://forum.knime.com/u/AnotherFraudUser)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/af-utilities-create-firefox-intance-soft-fails/81227/2 "2024-07-21T09:24:04Z")

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Hi @mwiegand,

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

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**Author:** ![mwiegand](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/mwiegand/32/66896_2.png) [@mwiegand](https://forum.knime.com/u/mwiegand)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/af-utilities-create-firefox-intance-soft-fails/81227/3 "2024-07-21T09:25:11Z")

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I am using the latest … 5.3 😕

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**Author:** ![ScottF](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/scottf/32/61316_2.png) [@ScottF](https://forum.knime.com/u/ScottF)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/af-utilities-create-firefox-intance-soft-fails/81227/4 "2024-07-22T16:34:25Z")

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ab3ccf34482a0329361734a18199390177204f15.png) [@system](https://forum.knime.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/af-utilities-create-firefox-intance-soft-fails/81227/5 "2024-10-20T16:35:23Z")

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