# Selenium on rails rake test:acceptance firefox problems on mac osx

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**Created:** [December 15, 2007, 10:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-on-rails-rake-test-acceptance-firefox-problems-on-mac-osx/123241 "2007-12-15T10:54:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abdel\_A\_Saleh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Abdel\_A\_Saleh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abdel_A_Saleh)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 10:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-on-rails-rake-test-acceptance-firefox-problems-on-mac-osx/123241/1 "2007-12-15T10:54:36Z")

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Hi,

I’m using selenium on rails to perform my acceptance testing through  
the browser (which is working out okay). I’m having an issue when  
running test:acceptance with firefox as the target. It seems like the  
process just stalls (waits forever).

I’m running Firefox/2.0.0.11 on mac osx (intel based). If I run the  
tests manually on firefox everything works no problem, its only a  
problem when invoked using test:acceptance. I’m already instantiating  
firefox (in config.yml) using a seperate firefox profile: firefox: ‘/  
Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P selenium’.

I get as far as,

Starting firefox  
“/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P selenium”  
“[http://localhost:3000/selenium/TestRunner.html](http://localhost:3000/selenium/TestRunner.html)?  
test=tests&auto=true&baseUrl=[http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/)  
&resultsUrl=postResults/firefox.yml&multiWindow=false”  
^Crake aborted!

Any help is much appreciated.

Abdel