WebDriverException:can't load profile error in selenium python script

Question

I am using selenium webdriver in python to drive Firefox automaticly, the python script is exported from the selenium IDE add-on in Firefox. But when I run the script it raise error:

        ======================================================================
    ERROR: test_selenium (__main__.SeleniumTest)
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "selenium_test.py", line 8, in setUp
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 46, in __init__

        self.binary, timeout),
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\extension_connection.py", line 46,
    in __init__
        self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 44, in lau
    nch_browser
        self._wait_until_connectable()
      File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 87, in _wa
    it_until_connectable
        raise WebDriverException("Can't load the profile. Profile Dir : %s" % self.profile.path)
    WebDriverException: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir : c:\users\ataosky\appdata\local\temp\tmpwpz
    zrv

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Ran 1 test in 67.876s

    FAILED (errors=1)

WebDriverException: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir : c:\users\ataosky\appdata\local\temp\tmpwpz

Have anybody encountered this problem? How to solve this? Thanks in advance.

EDIE:selenium 2.5 version has solve this problem.

Can we see the code? I've run into similar issues in C#, but can't really tell you anything without seeing your code... — Anders
– Anders, Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 19:34
+1 - same issue with selenium 2.9.0. Suspect it may be related to the recent Firefox 8 upgrade. — hwjp
– hwjp, Commented Nov 25, 2011 at 13:42

hwjp · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-25 13:47:14Z

11

I had this issue after upgrading to Firefox 8, when running selenium v 2.9.0.

It was fixed by upgrading to the latest version of selenium (2.13).

 sudo pip install selenium --upgrade

(if you're using the Python flavour)

answered Nov 25, 2011 at 13:47

hwjp

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Bob Evans Over a year ago

I have the same issue, however I can't upgrade to Firefox 8 because of a bug in selenium 2.9+. I'll have to downgrade to Firefox 7, issue I have is this auto-updated during a nightly test run and I have my firefox preference set prompt before upgrading

markwalker_ Over a year ago

I've also just had this problem. Upgraded FF since last running selenium which was at v2.2. I've upgraded that to 2.24 and it executed firefox as the default profile & no errors.

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