title: selenium webdriver trigger chrome but doesn't open the get url
body: <p>I am trying to run my tests against chrome, but chrome is triggered without navigating to the url that the get() method has here bellow is my code: </p>
  
  <pre><code>public void startSelenium() throws MalformedURLException {
  
          driver = getDriverInstance( "http://localhost:4444/wd/hub", "chrome");
  
      }
  
      public WebDriver getDriverInstance(
                                          String Url,
                                          String browser ) throws MalformedURLException {
  
          WebDriver driver = null;
          URL url = new URL( Url );
          if( browser.equals( "firefox" ) ) {
              DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
              driver = new RemoteWebDriver( url, capability );
          } else if( browser.equals( "chrome" ) ) {
              DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
              driver = new RemoteWebDriver( url, capability );
          } else if( browser.equals( "IE" ) ) {
              DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
              driver = new RemoteWebDriver( url, capability );
          }
          return driver;
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and here is the class that inherit the above methods </p>
  
  <pre><code>driver.get("http://www.facebook.com");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and here is the configuration of my standalone server </p>
  
  <pre><code>  java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar  -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
  
  but the window is open and the get method is not executed. and this is the error that i have got in my eclips 
  
  org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Build info: version: '2.42.2', revision: '6a6995d', time: '2014-06-03 17:42:30'
  System info: host: 'CON0389', ip: '10.201.10.78', os.name: 'Windows 8', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.2', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
  Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:204)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:156)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:599)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:240)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteWebDriver.java:126)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteWebDriver.java:153)
      at concep.selenium.core.GenericSeleniumWebDriver.getDriverInstance(GenericSeleniumWebDriver.java:73)
      at concep.selenium.core.GenericSeleniumWebDriver.startSelenium(GenericSeleniumWebDriver.java:58)
      at concep.selenium.Dynamic.DynamicBase.startSelenium(DynamicBase.java:26)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:84)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:564)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:213)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:653)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:901)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1231)
      at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:127)
      at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:111)
      at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:767)
      at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:617)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
      at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1224)
      at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1149)
      at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
      at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.run(RemoteTestNG.java:111)
      at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:204)
      at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:175)
  Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
      at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:130)
      at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:79)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:163)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:62)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:572)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:240)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteWebDriver.java:126)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteWebDriver.java:139)
      at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.&lt;init&gt;(ChromeDriver.java:171)
      at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.&lt;init&gt;(ChromeDriver.java:139)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverProvider.callConstructor(DefaultDriverProvider.java:59)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverProvider.newInstance(DefaultDriverProvider.java:53)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverFactory.newInstance(DefaultDriverFactory.java:54)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:215)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:1)
      at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$1.run(DefaultSession.java:169)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
  </code></pre>