New Selenium: Issues loading URL with Firebox 28 and selenium 2.41

[Jason Mitchell]

Hi everyone,

I am just getting into using selenium, and can't seem to get the URL to load.   Basically Firefox is opening, but then my URL does not seem to load.  

I just made a quick test script to show my problem.  Firefox opens, but the www.google.com does not load and the script seems to just hang.  After a while it does exit with an error message. 

Running Python 2.7, firefox 28, selenium 2.41 on windows 7 in cygwin

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.get('http://www.google.com')

driver.quit()

Output

python test.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "test.py", line 4, in <module>

    driver = webdriver.Firefox()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 59, in __init__

    self.binary, timeout),

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 47, in __init__

    self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 61, in launch_browser

    self._wait_until_connectable()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 105, in _wait_until_connectable

    self.profile.path, self._get_firefox_output()))

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: "Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmpRrwgvG Firefox output: "

Any help would be appreciated. 

[Alex]

The error is occurring when trying to create the Firefox Webdriver instance, not when you are trying to get to the webpage. I would suggest looking at this article, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6682009/selenium-firefoxprofile-exception-cant-load-the-profile,  for help as they seem to have the same problem. 

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[Ahmet Salih Büyükkayhan]

Hello,

I am using Ubuntu Linux and I can run the tests on Firefox 28.0 (built for Ubuntu) with Selenium 2.41 however I got the same error above when I try to test the firefox that I compiled from source code. 

The article below just recommends to update the selenium but it is the latest version 2.41. Is there any other suggestion?

Thanks,