Selenium Connection Error

Question

Has anyone run across this error before? I just started getting this error on monday. Why is it having issues with connecting?

Selenium will open the browser but will not plug in the url.

  C:\Python34\python.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 4.0.5\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py" --multiproc --client 127.0.0.1 --port 49660 --file //HAL1/FTP-Directories/Comal-County/comal.py
  pydev debugger: process 5564 is connecting

  Connected to pydev debugger (build 139.1547)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 4.0.5\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 2217, in       <module>
      globals = debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None)
    File "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 4.0.5\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1643, in run
      pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals)  # execute the script
    File "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition4.0.5\helpers\pydev\_pydev_imps\_pydev_execfile.py", line 18, in execfile
      exec(compile(contents+"\n", file, 'exec'), glob, loc) 
    File "//HAL1/FTP-Directories/Comal-County/comal.py", line 7, in <module>
      driver = webdriver.Firefox();
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 59, in __init__
      self.binary, timeout),
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\extension_connection.py", line 47, in __init__
      self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 66, in launch_browser
      self._wait_until_connectable()
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 105, in       _wait_until_connectable
      raise WebDriverException("Can't load the profile. Profile "
  selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: %s If you specified a       log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.

Code:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox();
driver.get("http://www.google.com")

Answer 1

This is a compatibility issue between selenium and Firefox.

Upgrade your Firefox to the latest version (36 at the moment).

And upgrade selenium to the latest version (2.45 at the moment):

pip install --upgrade selenium