[Tutor] selenium programs stopped working

[Oscar Benjamin]

Please don't top-post on this list (and many others). Inline or
bottom-posted responses are usually preferred like the way that I've
rearranged your message below.

On 4 June 2013 02:27, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbein79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

Unfortunately neither can I as I've never used selenium. Someone may
respond with a good answer to this but I also wouldn't be surprised if
no one here understood your problem. This list is mainly for people
learning the basics of Python and I think that this seems like quite a
specialist problem that might be better directed at a
mailing-list/forum that is primarily for selenium/firefox (I'm not
sure as I don't really understand what you're doing).


Sorry,
Oscar