Firefox won't 'drive' with Selenium webdriver

Question

I've used Firefox with Webdriver on this machine before, but suddenly when I use any code that utilizes Firefox as the driver, Firefox will open and just sit there blankly. Absolutely nothing loads, my program hangs until I close the window at which point it raises the "browser not open" error.

Tried reinstalling. Chrome/IE Drivers work but I don't really want to use them.

Included a pic of exactly what happens when I use any code, for instance

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
url = "http://google.com" 
driver.get(url)

Even this gets me nothing. enter image description here

I think it's an issue with firefox version you had been using. You can try a standard version of firefox like 12 , 15 and test — Harshavardhan Konakanchi, Jan 30 '13 at 12:19

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '13 at 12:07

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upgrade to selenium version 2.29.0

pip install -U selenium

there was a bug fix in the previous version

answered Jan 30 '13 at 12:07

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Ahhh... haha. The only thing I didn't try. Thanks. – Adam Magyar Jan 30 '13 at 12:50
that's a pretty serious bug if you couldn't do something as simple as getting the initial url! – ddavison Sep 12 '13 at 21:54
Same issue was noticed when I didn't update from 2.42.0 to 2.43.1, so it's kind of universal answer. Thanks. – Wiseman Oct 15 '14 at 11:37

Firefox won't 'drive' with Selenium webdriver

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