Selenium WebDriver get url does not open the URL

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from selenium import webdriver from selenium common exceptions import TimeoutException from selenium webdriver support ui import WebDriverWait   available since 2 4 0 import time     Create a new instance of the Firefox driver driver   webdriver Firefox       go to the google home page driver get  http   www google com     This opens a Firefox window but does not open a url    I have a proxy server but the address bar does not show the passed url  I have two Firefox profiles      Can 1 or 2 be an issue  if yes  then how can I resolve it

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A spent a lot of time on this issue and finally found that selenium 2 44 not working with node version 0 12  Use node version 0 10 38

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I was facing exactly the same issue  after browsing for sometime I came to know that it is basically version compatibility issue between FireFox and selenium  I have got the latest FireFox but my Selenium imported was older which is causing the issue  Issue got resolved after upgrading selenium pip install -U selenium   OS  windows Python 2 7

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Check your browser version and do the following  1  Download the Firefox Chrome webdriver from Google 2  Put the webdriver in Chrome s directory

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Neeraj  I ve resolved this problem  but i m not sure if you are the same reason   In general  my problem was caused by some permission issues   I tried to move my whole project into      mv xxx       and then i change give it the 777 permission   chmod -R 777 xxx    I m not familiar with linux permission so i just do this to make sure i have permission to execute the program   Even you don t have permission  the selenium program will not prompt you   So  good luck

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I was having the save issue  I assume you made sure your java server was running before you started your python script  The java server can be downloaded from selenium s download list   When I did a netstat to evaluate the open ports   i noticed that the java server wasn t running on the specific  localhost  host   When I started the server  I found that the port number was 4444      java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2 35 0 jar  Sep 24  2013 10 18 57 PM org openqa grid selenium GridLauncher main INFO  Launching a standalone server 22 19 03 393 INFO - Java  Apple Inc  20 51-b01-456 22 19 03 394 INFO - OS  Mac OS X 10 8 5 x86 64 22 19 03 418 INFO - v2 35 0  with Core v2 35 0  Built from revision c916b9d 22 19 03 681 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to  http   127 0 0 1 4444 wd hub 22 19 03 683 INFO - Version Jetty 5 1 x 22 19 03 683 INFO - Started HttpContext  selenium-server driver  selenium-server driver  22 19 03 685 INFO - Started HttpContext  selenium-server  selenium-server  22 19 03 685 INFO - Started HttpContext      22 19 03 755 INFO - Started org openqa jetty jetty servlet ServletHandler 21b64e6a 22 19 03 755 INFO - Started HttpContext  wd  wd  22 19 03 765 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0 0 0 0 4444   I was able to view my listening ports and their port numbers the -n option  by running the following command in the terminal    netstat -an   egrep  Proto LISTEN    This got me the following output  Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address         state       tcp46      0      0    4444                                        LISTEN     I realized this may be a problem  because selenium s socket utils  found in  webdriver common utils py are trying to connect via  localhost  or 127 0 0 1   socket  connect   localhost   port     once I changed the  localhost  to     empty single quotes to represent all local addresses   it started working  So now  the previous line from utils py looks like this   socket  connect      port     I am using MacOs and Firefox 22  The latest version of Firefox at the time of this post is 24  but I heard there are some security issues with the version that may block some of selenium s functionality  I have not verified this   Regardless  for this reason  I am using the older version of Firefox

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I got the same error when issuing a URL without the protocol  like localhost 4200  instead of a correct one also specifying the protocol  e g  http   localhost 4200    Google Chrome works fine without the protocol  it takes http as the default   but Firefox crashes with this error

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I was getting similar problem and Stating string for URL worked for me      package Chrome Example   import org openqa selenium WebDriver  import org openqa selenium chrome ChromeDriver   public class Launch Chrome        public static void main String   args             System setProperty  webdriver chrome driver    C   Users  doyes  Downloads  chromedriver win324  chromedriver exe            String URL    http   www google com           WebDriver driver   new ChromeDriver            driver get URL

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I had the same problem but with Chrome  Solved it using the following steps  Install Firefox Chrome webdriver from Google Put the webdriver in Chrome s directory   Here s the code and it worked fine from selenium import webdriver  class InstaBot object       def   init   self           self driver webdriver Chrome  quot C  Program          Files x86  Google Chrome Application chromedriver exe quot    make sure                                                         it is chrome driver          self driver get  quot https   www wikipedia com quot                     InstaBot

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I have resolved this issue    If your jar files are older than the latest version and the browser has updated to latest version  then download    the latest jar files from the selenium website http   www seleniumhq org download   and the latest geckodriver exe

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import org openqa selenium WebDriver  import org openqa selenium firefox FirefoxDriver   WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver    driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30 TimeUnit SECONDS   driver get  http   www google com     OR  import org openqa selenium support ui ExpectedConditions   WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver 30   driver get  http   www google com      hplogo is the id of Google logo on google com wait until ExpectedConditions presenceOfElementLocated By id  hplogo

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I had the similar problem  All I had to do was delete the existing geckodriver exe and download the latest release of the same  You can find the latest release here https   github com mozilla geckodriver releases

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I was having the save issue when trying with Chrome    I finally placed my chromedrivers exe in the same location as my project   This fixed it for me

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Try the following code  import org openqa selenium WebDriver  import org openqa selenium firefox FirefoxDriver   WebDriver DRIVER   new FirefoxDriver    DRIVER get  http   www google com

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This worked for me  Tested on Ubuntu Desktop 11 04 with Python-2 7    from selenium import webdriver  driver   webdriver Firefox   driver get  http   www stackoverflow com

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Please have a look at this HowTo  http   www qaautomation net  p 373 Have a close look at section  Instantiating WebDriver   I think you are missing the following code line   wait   new WebDriverWait driver  30     Put it between  driver   webdriver Firefox      and   driver getUrl  http   www google com      Haven t tested it  because I m not using Selenium at the moment  I m familiar with Selenium 1 x

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If your are using it in windows machine  check whether the selenium webdriver you have installed is of the latest one  I just now explored that my webdriver is of old one and it just opens the firefox but it couldn t process the get function   Updation of the webdriver resolves this problem

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You need to first declare url as a sting as below   from selenium import webdriver from selenium common exceptions import TimeoutException from selenium webdriver support ui import WebDriverWait   available since 2 4 0 import time     Create a new instance of the Firefox driver  String URL    http   www google com    driver   webdriver Firefox       go to the google home page driver get URL

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It is a defect of Selenium   I have the same problem in Ubuntu 12 04 behind the proxy   Problem is in incorrect processing proxy exclusions  Default Ubuntu exclusions are located in no proxy environment variable   no proxy localhost 127 0 0 0 8   But it seems that  8 mask doesn t work for selenium  To workaround the problem it is enough to change no proxy to the following   no proxy localhost 127 0 0 1   Removing proxy settings before running python script also helps   http proxy  python script py

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Since you mentioned you use a proxy  try setting up the firefox driver with a proxy by following the answer given here proxy selenium python firefox

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