[Tutor] selenium programs stopped working

[Benjamin Fishbein]

btw I'm on a Mac running 10.7.
And after a couple minutes of not loading any webpage, the program gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/bfishbein/Documents/s_buy2.py", line 7, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 58, in __init__
    self.binary, timeout),
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 47, in __init__
    self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 48, in launch_browser
    self._wait_until_connectable()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 95, in _wait_until_connectable
    self.profile.path, self._get_firefox_output()))
WebDriverException: Message: "Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /var/folders/vm/8th3csp91qb47xbhqhb4gcmh0000gn/T/tmpPeqacA Firefox output: *** LOG addons.xpi: startup\n*** LOG addons.xpi: Skipping unavailable install location app-system-share\n*** LOG addons.xpi: checkForChanges\n*** LOG addons.xpi: No changes found\n" 

I can't make any sense of this.
Ben



On Jun 3, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Benjamin Fishbein wrote:

> I'm using selenium webdriver with python 2.7. I have some programs I wrote with it and they've been working properly for some months.
> But today I tried to write a new program with the selenium module.
> 
> from selenium import webdriver
> from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
> 
> driver = webdriver.Firefox()
> driver.get("http://www.python.org") # actually I go to other sites, not python.org
> # now there's more but the program never gets to it
> 
> The Firefox web browser opens, but it doesn't go to any page. The url doesn't even appear in the box at the top of the webbrowser where urls go.
> Do you know what is causing this problem? The only thing I can think of is that there's some problem in the settings. I shut down the computer and turned it back on, but the problem remains.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Ben
>