WebDriverException: Message: Process unexpectedly closed with status signal | How to run Selenium Firefox Geckodriver in Google Colaboratory?

Hey stackexchange community, I would like to run selenium for python, with firefox geckodriver in google recolab. I've found a post regarding this topic recently in which there's an answer by @DebanjanB from a while ago: . Sadly the provided solution, no longer works and I couldn't figure out how to fix it.

this is the code from the stackoverflow answer, that's supposed to download and run geckodriver;

# install firefox, geckodriver, and selenium
!apt-get update
!pip install selenium
!apt install firefox-geckodriver
!cp /usr/lib/geckodriver /usr/bin
!cp /usr/lib/firefox /usr/bin
from selenium import webdriver
binary = '/usr/bin/firefox'
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.binary = binary
options.add_argument('start-maximized')
options.add_argument('--headless')
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options, executable_path='/usr/bin/geckodriver')
browser.get(')

!cp /usr/lib/geckodriver /usr/bin results in error, there's no such file, the geckodriver is stored in /usr/bin/geckodriver. !cp /usr/lib/firefox /usr/bin doesn't work too, /usr/lib/firefox is a directory, not a file. Overall, the code fails with the exception: Process unexpectedly closed with status signal

here's the full error output:

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py in __init__(self, firefox_profile, firefox_binary, timeout, capabilities, proxy, executable_path, options, service_log_path, firefox_options, service_args, desired_capabilities, log_path, keep_alive) 172 command_executor=executor, 173 desired_capabilities=capabilities,
--> 174 keep_alive=True) 175 176 # Selenium remote
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py in __init__(self, command_executor, desired_capabilities, browser_profile, proxy, keep_alive, file_detector, options) 155 warnings.warn("Please use FirefoxOptions to set browser profile", 156 DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
--> 157 self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile) 158 self._switch_to = SwitchTo(self) 159 self._mobile = Mobile(self)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py in start_session(self, capabilities, browser_profile) 250 parameters = {"capabilities": w3c_caps, 251 "desiredCapabilities": capabilities}
--> 252 response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters) 253 if 'sessionId' not in response: 254 response = response['value']
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py in execute(self, driver_command, params) 319 response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params) 320 if response:
--> 321 self.error_handler.check_response(response) 322 response['value'] = self._unwrap_value( 323 response.get('value', None))
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py in check_response(self, response) 240 alert_text = value['alert'].get('text') 241 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace, alert_text)
--> 242 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) 243 244 def _value_or_default(self, obj, key, default):
WebDriverException: Message: Process unexpectedly closed with status signal

Update #1

Here's my best try, it puts everything in all the paths needed:

import sys,os
from os import system as o
!pip install selenium
def sudo_cmd(cmd):o('echo %s|sudo -S %s' % ('12345678', cmd))
sudo_cmd('apt-get update')
sudo_cmd('apt install firefox-geckodriver')
sudo_cmd('cp /usr/lib/geckodriver /usr/bin')
sys.path.insert(0,'/usr/lib/geckodriver')
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.headless = True
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, executable_path='geckodriver')
driver.get(')

But I still get the same Error.

Also I noticed that the geckodriver.log file outputs src/tcmalloc.cc:283] Attempt to free invalid pointer 0x7fa48e915160 Redirecting call to abort() to mozalloc_abort before the setup code errors out.

The remote server is running on Linux-4.19.112+-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic. If you have a google account, try it yourself here for free:

I would be happy if anyone could help me! 👍

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