title: Selenium FireFox Driver Exception
body: <p>I had a number of Selenium tests written using the Firefox driver which worked fine. But for some reason now I am getting an exception when trying to instantiate the Firefox driver. Does anybody know of any updates Firefox have made that might have affected this?</p>
  
  <p>Here are the two lines of code. The exception occurs on the 2nd line:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>private IWebDriver _webDriver;
  _webDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Below is the exception I ham getting:-</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"An exception of type 'OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException' occurred in WebDriver.dll but was not handled in user code</p>
    
    <p>Additional information: Failed to start up socket within 45000 ms    </p>
    
    <p>If there is a handler for this exception, the program may be safely continued."</p>
  </blockquote>