Selenium hangs instantiating FirefoxDriver

Question

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 progr

Answer 1

I've been working OK with Firefox 18, but I just got auto-updated to 19 which seems to break the webdriver. Mozilla isn't prominent with the links to prior versions:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/18.0b7/mac/en-US/