Selenium work with python2 but not with python3

Question

I am trying to use selenium with python3. I made a tiny script to simply open a firefox browser, which leads to google.ch afterwards.
Now my problem is that this works fine with python2, but if I try to run the script with python3, firefox browser opens, but it doesn't open google.ch.

I really want to do the whole thing with python3.. Anyone an idea what the problem could be?

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By



# Replace below path with the absolute path
# to chromedriver in your computer
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/usr/local/bin/geckodriver')

driver.get("https://google.ch")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 600)sudo rm

Note: I installed selenium with pip3

Error Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/python_projects/SitzwacheTool/read.py", line 11, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/usr/local/bin/geckodriver')
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 174, in __init__
    keep_alive=True)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused

wait, after couple minutes of waiting i get a connection refused — Donut, Oct 27 '18 at 13:20
Version difference of selenium perhaps? What is ``selenium.__version__`` in python 2 vs python 3? — codeape, Oct 27 '18 at 13:21
@codeape python2.7.13 = version 2.53.1 and python3.5.3 = version 3.14.1 — Donut, Oct 27 '18 at 13:46
@Navarasu i updated the question. Sorry for the bad formatting. — Donut, Oct 27 '18 at 13:48
Can you try updating the firefox browser version and check? Also are u running in xvfb ? — Navarasu, Oct 27 '18 at 14:08
OK so the version difference could explain what you're seeing. To check if this indeed is the case I suggest you install ``pip install selenium==2.53.1`` in the python 3 environment as well. — codeape, Oct 27 '18 at 15:24
@Navarasu xvfb is for hidden browserwindow right? If that's so, no i am not running xvfb although i downloaded it — Donut, Oct 27 '18 at 17:05

Selenium work with python2 but not with python3

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