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

Saw this behavior when trying to instantiate the webdriver on a headless CentOS server without display being set.

Per https://serverfault.com/questions/363827/how-can-i-run-firefox-on-centos-with-no-display -- you can use Xvfb, which gives you an X server that doesn't require connection to a physical display