FirefoxDriver always starting on “firstrun” page, breaking all test scripts

Question

Starting just last night, the FirefoxDriver has been always opening on this page: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/42.0/firstrun/learnmore/. I have tried c

Answer 1

Go to profile manager using "Firefox.exe - p"

You will have more than one profile. Please select default profile and make it default all time.

It should not open that page. i tested and it works fine.

You can try this code. I am pretty sure it will work.

    ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
    FirefoxProfile ffprofile = profile.getProfile("default");
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffprofile);
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);