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collarblind
collarblind

Reputation: 4739

Selenium Firefox Profile not working

I am trying to load my selenium firefox profile and I keep getting the error:

WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: %s If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.

The code was working fine 15 minutes ago.. I am not sure what happened.

I have firefox 43.0.4 and selenium 2.49

This is my code that throws an error:

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)

I am using Windows 7 Professional, Python 2.7.10 | Anaconda 2.3.0 (64-bit)

Traceback:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Moyp\dev\anaconda\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 3035, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-15-37f7d14be053>", line 2, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)
  File "C:\Users\Moyp\dev\anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 77, in __init__
    RemoteWebDriver.__init__(self,
  File "C:\Users\Moyp\dev\anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\extension_connection.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
  File "C:\Users\Moyp\dev\anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 68, in launch_browser
    self._wait_until_connectable()
  File "C:\Users\Moyp\dev\anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 103, in _wait_until_connectable
    raise WebDriverException("Can't load the profile. Profile "
WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: %s If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2352

Answers (3)

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 21

There are some know issues with profiles. As per the Selenium release notes you shouldn't be using profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile(profilepath) anymore...

Upvotes: 2

user2661518
user2661518

Reputation: 2755

I had the similar issue, the issue was after starting virtual display for headless I wasn't stopping it. So all of them were running in background. Run top command and check if there is not browser firefox running after tests are finished.

Upvotes: 2

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474141

Different selenium versions have compatibility issues with certain Firefox versions. Selenium 2.49 and Firefox 43 work together well.

Make sure you are really using selenium 2.49:

import selenium
print(selenium.__version__)

Upvotes: 4

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