anirudh-swaminathan/fb-selenium

A simple project to learn selenium in Python

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Selenium webdriver exception.

The webdriver for firefox is unable to access the profile dir.

Versions:-
*Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
*Firefox 49.0
*Selenium 2.53.6
*Python 2.7.12 :: Anaconda custom

This is the exact message logged out to the console.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fb1.py", line 118, in <module>
main()
File "fb1.py", line 66, in main
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/home/anicodebreaker/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 80, in __init__
self.binary, timeout)
File "/home/anicodebreaker/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 52, in __init__
self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile, timeout=timeout)
File "/home/anicodebreaker/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 68, in launch_browser
self._wait_until_connectable(timeout=timeout)
File "/home/anicodebreaker/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 108, in _wait_until_connectable
% (self.profile.path))
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile.

This issue is the same issue that was opened in the selenium repository.
SeleniumHQ/selenium#2739