I face a problem while opening Firefox with Selenium script

Question

I face a problem while running Selenium scripts. I try to open Firefox using the following command:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public static void main(String[] args) {
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("www.google.com");
    driver.quit();
}

But Firefox opens with Yes/No dialog with the following message:

Would you like to help improve Mozilla Firefox by automatically reporting memory usage, performance, and responsiveness to Mozilla?

I get this message every time. Selecting Yes or No has no effect. I can't understand whats the problem. Is it a problem with Firefox profile or WebDriver?

Answer 1

Try this:

String baseURL ="http://www.google.com/";
driver.get(baseURL);

baseURL should be http://www.google.com/ not www.google.com

Answer 2

What version of Firefox are you using? Are you sure that the version of WebDriver you have supports the version of Firefox? Try updating to the latest version of WebDriver and a version of Firefox that you know is supported like 7.0.1. Another possible solution is that you can start Firefox with any profile instead of the default one that ships with Selenium.

DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabailities();
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile("path_of_profile");
cap.SetCapability("firefox_profile", profile.ToBase64String());
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(cap); 

Answer 3

I have a partial workaround in Ruby, which may lead you to the code you need; see http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=3154

-Robin

Answer 4

Me suggest will be use custom Firefox profile. See how to create one on this web page.