Selenium WebDriver with Java is not navigating to the given URL & a blank page is displayed instead on Firefox

Question

I had written a small piece of code opening a website on Firefox using Selenium WebDriver.It opens the browser window but doesn't navigate to given URL & a blank page is displayed instead for a while.
Code :-

WebDriver wd = new FirefoxDriver();
            System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin","C:\\Program Files\\MozillaFirefox\\Firefox.exe");
            wd.navigate().to("https://www.google.co.in/");
            wd.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            String Handle1 = wd.getWindowHandle();
            System.out.println("Window handle 1 is :- "+Handle1);

The error logs are as follows:-

    Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.UnsupportedCommandException: Bad request

Command duration or timeout: 1.58 seconds
Build info: version: '2.25.0', revision: '17482', time: '2012-07-18 21:09:54'
System info: os.name: 'Windows XP', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '5.1', java.version:     '1.7.0'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver    
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at     org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:188)
    at             org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:498)
    at     org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:182)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:110)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:185)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:178)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:174)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:92)
    at Example1.main(Example1.java:15)

My set up is :- Mozilla :- 17.0.1 Eclipse :- Helios (3.6) Selenium Java Bindings :- 2.25.0 OS :- Windows xp SP3

Help me folks . . . thanks in advance. It would be highly appreciated if someone helps me understand why this has happened.

first of all you don't have to set system property for firefox, it will work even with out that.. — Amith, Oct 16 '13 at 11:33
Well then please recommend me which versions should i use for best results — Shoaib Shaikh, Oct 16 '13 at 12:37
Anyone plz suggest me why the above problem is there & how to solve this(Even though its an outdated version as per what you guys are saying) — Shoaib Shaikh, Oct 16 '13 at 15:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 17 '13 at 05:30

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Support of Firefox 17 only appeared in WebDriver 2.25 (http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/java/CHANGELOG). So, I suppose it can be not stable since you use 17.0.1 (a bit later). Also, please, try to use java 1.6 but not 1.7 as you did. Could you please tell us why you use so old versions of WebDriver and Firefox?

answered Oct 17 '13 at 05:30

olyv

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because this is the setup used for most of the modules in my project so to maintain the consistancy i need to go ahead with the current setup.Anyways thanx. . .!! – Shoaib Shaikh Oct 17 '13 at 05:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '14 at 13:44

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You don't have to set property with firefox.

Try with the method get :

wd.open("your-url");

answered Apr 07 '14 at 13:44

kev85270

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '15 at 14:31

This may due to your hosts configuration. If you have a line like this: 127.0.0.1 domain1 domain2 domain3 localhost Change it to: 127.0.0.1 localhost domain1 domain2 domain3 Depending if you are under Linus or windows .... the location of that file is : /etc/hosts

Thanks :-)

Selenium WebDriver with Java is not navigating to the given URL & a blank page is displayed instead on Firefox

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