[🐛 Bug]: SM does not pull latest minor releases for previous versions of firefox

[elliottj]

What happened?

Running Selenium Manager Windows 0.4.25 command line to pull latest Firefox 127 version shows:

c:\Temp>selenium-manager-windows.exe --browser firefox --browser-version 127 --debug
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.705Z DEBUG] Sending stats to Plausible: Props { browser: "firefox", browser_version: "127", os: "windows", arch: "amd64", lang: "", selenium_version: "4.25" }
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.749Z DEBUG] geckodriver not found in PATH
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.749Z DEBUG] firefox detected at C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.750Z DEBUG] Running command: wmic datafile where name='C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe' get Version /value
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.981Z DEBUG] Output: "\r\r\n\r\r\nVersion=130.0.1.967\r\r\n\r\r\n\r\r\n\r"
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.985Z DEBUG] Detected browser: firefox 130.0.1.967
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.987Z DEBUG] Discovered firefox version (130) different to specified browser version (127)
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.990Z DEBUG] Required browser: firefox 127.0
[2024-09-25T11:47:46.990Z DEBUG] Downloading firefox 127.0 from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/127.0/win64/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%20127.0.exe

It's downloading 127.0 but, as per https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/, the current latest version is 127.0.2.

First noticed when using Selenium 4.25 release, previously working under Selenium 4.18.

Likely linked to 0.42 change:
"Use Firefox history major releases endpoint for version discovery"

How can we reproduce the issue?

See above.

Relevant log output

See above.

Operating System

Windows 10

Selenium version

Java 4.24.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Firefox

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Any version that is not latest, but has it's own later minor version.

Are you using Selenium Grid?

n/a

[github-actions]

@elliottj, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[elliottj]

Any updates on this please?

[diemol]

@bonigarcia do you know?

[bonigarcia]

Yes, I have confirmed this. Many thanks for reporting, @elliottj. I will do a fix soon.

[elliottj]

Is there an update on this please, it looks like the fix failed to build? Thanks.

[diemol]

4.26 has been released, can you check with that version?

[bonigarcia]

I believe that PR was not merged, so I'm afraid release 4.26 will work in the same way:

#14613

[elliottj]

Is there an estimate on when the PR will be fixed and merged please?

[bonigarcia]

The PR that fixes this issue has been merged. It will be available in the next Selenium release.

[elliottj]

Thanks is fixed in released 4.27.0.