driver.close() method is not working in Selenium WebDriver on Firefox

Question

I am writing a simple program in Eclipse using JUnit annotation.

diver.close() is not closing my Firefox browser after the tests. It works fine with Chrome. Code snippet is here.

public class FireFox1 {
    WebDriver driver;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        driver= new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("http://book.theautomatedtester.co.uk/chapter4");
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() {
        driver.close();
    }

    @Test
    public void testExamples() {
        WebElement element= driver.findElement(By.id("nextBid"));
        element.sendKeys("100");     

    }
} 

Answer 1

Better use driver.quit() method. It closes the browser, but due to some unknown issues it throws NullPointerException. Just catch it..

try{
    driver.quit();
   }catch (Exception e){
      System.out.println("Nothing to do with it");
      }