Python Selenium Webdriver.Firefox() hangs at 'about:blank&utm_content=firstrun'
<p>Am using Selenium version 2.53.6 and have tried it with Firefox 44,45,46 and 47...</p>

<p>Whenever I run the line </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>driver = webdriver.Firefox()</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Firefox initializes but hangs at 'about:blank&amp;utm_content=firstrun' and I cannot type additional code on the command line.</p>

<p>Been researching on how to solve this and so far the only available solution that did not work for me was to downgrade FF (but I have tried numerous older versions already) (am using Python 2.7 and have also tried and failed using 3.5)</p>

<p>I would recommend using chrome. <a href="http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.9/chromedriver_win32.zip" rel="nofollow">http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.9/chromedriver_win32.zip</a> Download that and extract it to your <code>python27/scripts</code> folder located in the root directory in the <code>C:\\ Drive</code> and then run this script.</p>

<pre><code>from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
</code></pre>

<p>And It should connect you to google.com Hope I helped. :)</p>

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