Can't run Firefox with Selenium Webdriver

Question

I'm trying to run this code in Python:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC # available since 2.26.0
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile = profile)
# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# go to the google home page
driver.get("http://www.google.com")

When I run it, Firefox starts after a while on a blank page, and stays that way. I get this message :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 8, in <module>
    browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile = profile)
  File "/home/fx/EnvDev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 62, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=capabilities)
  File "/home/fx/EnvDev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 72, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/home/fx/EnvDev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 114, in start_session
    'desiredCapabilities': desired_capabilities,
  File "/home/fx/EnvDev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 165, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/home/fx/EnvDev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 152, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ''

I use Firefox 20.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 behind a proxy.

possible duplicate of [Selenium: FirefoxProfile exception Can't load the profile](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6682009/selenium-firefoxprofile-exception-cant-load-the-profile) — Benjamin Gruenbaum, May 17 '13 at 11:57
The code works for me without any errors. Try to reinstall selenium and give another try. — alecxe, May 17 '13 at 19:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '14 at 06:56

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Use the latest versions of Selenium WebDriver

Selenium Update for Python

Open cmd prompt
Locate the folder C:\Python27\Scripts in cmd and enter

pip install -U selenium

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answered Feb 27 '14 at 06:56

Prashanth Sams

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