selenium webdriver hangs running abrowser

Project:Trisquel
Version:6.0
Component:Programs
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

How to reproduce: install https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium/2.41.0, run the script from example 1. It should do some work, while it hangs waiting for a firefox (abrowser) process to exit.

This command hangs here but not on Debian, selenium runs the same with a different profile path:

mkdir /tmp/prof
MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_DISABLE=1 MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 NO_EM_RESTART=1 \
  XRE_PROFILE_PATH=/tmp/prof firefox -silent

More details:

21:51 < marktraceur> Hey all - I have an issue with cucumber, I'm trying to get an automated browser test suite to run. Someone suggested that abrowser may not have support for webdriver, because it has changes to something called XPCOM.
21:51 < marktraceur> Does anyone here know what changes have been made to abrowser from the base firefox?
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21:57 < marktraceur> It's just a timeout
21:57 < marktraceur> Because the browser never launches
21:57 < marktraceur> When I ctrl-c in the middle of a test suite the browser launches briefly but then dies