Re: Selenium webdriver won't open web page

[s.anth...@gmail.com]

We need more information to help you.  Are any errors thrown?  Are you running this locally?  If so, are you able to manually open Firefox and visit the URL?

You might want to try something as simple as this to verify it's not code related:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

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

driver.quit()

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:24:53 PM UTC-7, Brian Fisher wrote:

A Python program using:

 

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get(url)

 

where url is a valid web address worked upto last week but now just opens Firefox but fails to show the web page.

 

Using Selenium 2.29.0

 

Hel[p please.

[Brian Fisher]

I have tried your code and Firefox opens but does not show the web address, but I can enter the URL manually in that opened Firefox and visit the site.

Yes, I am running this locally.

There are no error messages.

I can open Firefox manually, independant of Python, and visit a site.

[Srisowrabha Kumar]

Hi Brian,

We had faced similar issue and was able to identify the root cause. If proxy is set in IE(if Windows OS), FF browser is launched, however, the required web page fails to launch through script.
Disable proxy on IE and execute the script. :)

Thanks,

Sowrabha

[Tarun Kumar]

Does URL variable get the URL value when you run the tests?

[Brian Fisher]

Hi Sowrabha,

 

My IE proxy is disabled. I have tried resetting the Windows Firewall, but that has not helped.

Regards, Brian

[Brian Fisher]

In fact my test is:

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

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

browser.quit()

[Tarun Kumar]

Which version of FF are you on?

Could you try with latest selenium download available at SeleniumHQ ?

[Brian Fisher]

I was using FF v20.0.1 Funnelcake Jul 2012 mozilla12 - 1.0 and have already updated Selenium to v 2.32.0.

Now updated FF to v21.0  Funnelcake Jul 2012 mozilla12 - 1.0 but still have the same problem.

[Brian Fisher]

Further to my last, I have downloaded IEDriverServer_x64_2.32.3.zip and unzipped it. Then tried:

 

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Ie()

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

 

Which opened the page in IE ok. So what is going wrong with my Firefox test?