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Selenium tests don't work with firefox #130

@rlconley

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@rlconley

Right now, the selenium tests break using firefox. making them work would require using Marionette, and then would require more changes when Selenium 3.0 (now in Beta) is released. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionette/WebDriver)

Switching the tests to use chrome seems like the safest option, as requiring the user to go through the suggested downloading of the geckodriver executable or changing their version of FF seems impractical.

Here's the error I get with firefox:

`ERROR: test_editor (scribbler.tests.test_views.FunctionalTestCase)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/rlconley/PycharmProjects/django-scribbler-sandbox/scribbler/tests/test_views.py", line 410, in setUp
self.browser = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/home/rlconley/.virtualenvs/scribbler110/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 80, in init
self.binary, timeout)
File "/home/rlconley/.virtualenvs/scribbler110/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 52, in init
self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile, timeout=timeout)
File "/home/rlconley/.virtualenvs/scribbler110/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 68, in launch_browser
self._wait_until_connectable(timeout=timeout)
File "/home/rlconley/.virtualenvs/scribbler110/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 108, in _wait_until_connectable
% (self.profile.path))
WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmp17Jj4s If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
`

And here's the suggested fix using Marionette:

SeleniumHQ/selenium#2739

However, if we were to switch to Chrome, installing chromedriver on Travis is difficult, since it's not packaged. It's a link to an exe on the web that you have to install and then move. There are some workarounds like this https://github.com/kmee/odoo-travis-robotframework/blob/master/.travis.yml , but that seems brittle, too.

travis-ci/travis-ci#272

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