Selenium Webdriver error: "Can't load the profile"
python, python-2.7, selenium, selenium-webdriver, webdriver
Solution
It seems like Firefox 23 is not yet supported. Selenium 2.34 added support for Firefox 22, now there is 2.35 released, but there is nothing mentioned about FF23.
So i suggest you downgrade your firefox to v22 or try the new 2.35 selenium library.
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/py/CHANGES
How it works on mac? - i don't know, are you sure you are running ff23 there?
Problem
I'm using Selenium Webdriver (Python bindings) and my script works on Mac (OS X 10.6.8), but not on PC (Windows 7 Enterprise). Here's the error I get: ``` C:\Python27>python myscript.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "myscript.py", line 303, in <module> myfunction(arg1) File "myscript.py", line 87, in myfunction browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile = fp) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 61, in __init__ self.binary, timeout), File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\extension_conne ction.py", line 47, in __init__ self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary. py", line 61, in launch_browser self._wait_until_connectable() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary. py", line 105, in _wait_until_connectable self.profile.path, self._get_firefox_output())) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: "Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: c:\\users\\marzagao.1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\tmpnn0nhk Firefox out put: " ``` Here's the relevant part of my script (I'm iterating over different download folders): ``` for download_folder in list_of_download_folders: fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() fp.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 2) fp.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False) fp.set_preference("browser.download.dir", download_folder) fp.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "text/plain") browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile = fp) # gets URL, download files ``` I googled around and apparently this error message may have different causes. I tried this solution here but it didn't work (I guess it's not applicable to my case, even though the error message is similar). Any thoughts? (Windows 7 Enterprise, Service Pack 1, Python 2.7.5, Selenium 2.34, Firefox 23.0)