Selenium hangs instantiating FirefoxDriver
java, selenium, webdriver
Solution
These cases are usually when Firefox & Selenium are a little "out of sync" in terms of compatibility.
You should try two things: update Selenium to the latest one and/or downgrade Firefox. Keeping an eye on the Selenium Release Notes
Problem
I try to get started with selenium (downloaded the current version today) and copied their example which opens a browser and performs a google search. However, the program hangs forever in the 1st line `WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();`. I have Firefox 13 installed. ``` Thread dump: Thread [main] Thread.sleep(long) line: not available [native method] [local variables unavailable] FirefoxBinary.sleep(long) line: 218 FirefoxBinary.clean(FirefoxProfile, File) line: 234 NewProfileExtensionConnection.start() line: 76 FirefoxDriver.startClient() line: 200 FirefoxDriver(RemoteWebDriver).(CommandExecutor, Capabilities) line: 94 FirefoxDriver.(FirefoxBinary, FirefoxProfile) line: 147 FirefoxDriver.() line: 85 Test.main(String[]) line: 24 ```