I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.3, selenium 2.32.0, python 2.7, Firefox Version 20 and have been getting this error when running the python binding:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException:
Message: "Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /var/folders/vn/8h6w79td4p59l9h9xhx2986r0000gn/T/tmpTmsdul Firefox output: LOG addons.xpi: startup
LOG addons.xpi: Skipping unavailable install location app-system-share
LOG addons.xpi: checkForChanges
LOG addons.xpi: No changes found
2013-04-11 21:59:09.107 firefox-bin[26167:707] invalid drawable"
Firefox opens, but doesn't load the url that I've supplied in my python selenium script. I've seen many others with this issue like this post:
But I've tracked it down to the fact that I am running a local development site off localhost. In my hosts file I have it set:
127.0.0.1 local.development.com
When I change it back to the original:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Everything works great. Now it's easy to just edit my hosts file to switch between this local development site and selenium. But wanted to ask if there was a way I can keep my local development site up and running and still use selenium at the same time.
Any suggestions or details. Maybe some explanation of the internal workings too, please? Thanks in advance.