WebDriverException:can't load profile error in selenium python script

Question

I am using selenium webdriver in python to drive Firefox automaticly, the python script is exported from the selenium IDE add-on in Firefox. But when I run the script it raise error:

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    ERROR: test_selenium (__main__.SeleniumTest)
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    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "selenium_test.py", line 8, in setUp
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 46, in __init__

        self.binary, timeout),
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\extension_connection.py", line 46,
    in __init__
        self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 44, in lau
    nch_browser
        self._wait_until_connectable()
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 87, in _wa
    it_until_connectable
        raise WebDriverException("Can't load the profile. Profile Dir : %s" % self.profile.path)
    WebDriverException: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir : c:\users\ataosky\appdata\local\temp\tmpwpz
    zrv

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    Ran 1 test in 67.876s

    FAILED (errors=1)

WebDriverException: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir : c:\users\ataosky\appdata\local\temp\tmpwpz

Have anybody encountered this problem? How to solve this? Thanks in advance.

EDIE:selenium 2.5 version has solve this problem.

Answer 1

I had this issue after upgrading to Firefox 8, when running selenium v 2.9.0.

It was fixed by upgrading to the latest version of selenium (2.13).

 sudo pip install selenium --upgrade

(if you're using the Python flavour)