Protractor fails in Firefox and IE browsers

Your question is too generic to pinpoint the rootcause. But I will try to answer all common issues that might have caused your problem

1. Update to new version of Protractor (use npm update protractor) - you are using 2.0.0 which is pretty old (protractor --version to check it after update). I am using 3.3.0. There is even more latest version - ProtractorI just tried your spec and its all working fine with FF-45

2. Coming to IE, I am not sure if you have the IE driver already, if not run the below command

   webdriver-manager update --ie

Your script might fail in IE as it will throw a warning that 'Active X methods would be blocked' and may be you have to set the ignore option in IE settings before you run

You can try to start a standalone Selenium Server locally. You can look at here;

https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/referenceConf.js

Your config file should be like this;

exports.config = {    seleniumServerJar: 'node_modules/protractor/selenium/selenium-server...',    specs: ['indexspecs.js'],    jasmineNodeOpts: {        showColors: true        defaultTimeoutInterval:30000    },    capabilities: {        //'browserName': 'internet explorer'        'browserName': 'firefox'    }};

You can download jar file from here

http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/