title: Failed to start up socket within 45000
body: <p>I'm using FF version 19</p>
  
  <p>it was all working fine till yesterday and suddenly today morning i start getting this error and i have the same exact code that was running before, no change nothing</p>
  
  <p>error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Test 'M:.TestCases.12' failed: Failed to start up socket within 45000
      OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Failed to start up socket within 45000
      at OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.Internal.ExtensionConnection.ConnectToBrowser(Int64 timeToWaitInMilliSeconds)
      at OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.Internal.ExtensionConnection.Start()
      at OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.FirefoxDriver.StartClient()
      at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
      at OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.FirefoxDriver..ctor(FirefoxBinary binary, FirefoxProfile profile, TimeSpan commandTimeout)
      at OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.FirefoxDriver..ctor(FirefoxBinary binary, FirefoxProfile profile)
      at OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.FirefoxDriver..ctor(FirefoxProfile profile)
  
  0 passed, 1 failed, 0 skipped, took 145.80 seconds (Ad hoc).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>here is my source code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static IWebDriver GetDriver()
          {
              switch (Common.BrowserSelected)
              {
                  case "ff":
                      FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
                      profile.SetPreference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);
                      profile.SetPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", url);
                      drv = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
                      break;
                  case "ie":
                      var options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
                      options.IntroduceInstabilityByIgnoringProtectedModeSettings = true;
                      DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
                      capabilities.SetCapability(CapabilityType.AcceptSslCertificates, true);
                      drv = new InternetExplorerDriver(options);
                      break;
                  case "chrome":
                      //_driver = new ChromeDriver();
                      break;
              }
              return drv;
          }
  </code></pre>