Selenium RC -html suite hangs on "Preparing Firefox profile..."

Question

I'm having some trouble when I execute the following command in cmd windows 8;

java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://www.konga.com" "C:\Users\Tunji\Desktop\SeleniumTestsCoreFunctionality\DeliveryWidgetTest.html" "C:\Users\Tunji\Desktop\SeleniumTestsCoreFunctionality\results.html" -firefoxProfileTemplate "C:\Users\Tunji\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\0srebkp2.selenium"

Output:

1. 19:00:37.664 INFO - Java: Oracle Corporation 23.25-b01
2. 19:00:37.665 INFO - OS: Windows 8 6.2 amd64
3. 19:00:37.667 INFO - v1.0-SNAPSHOT [1123], with Core v1.0-SNAPSHOT [2101]
4. 19:00:37.747 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
5. 19:00:37.749 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]
6. 19:00:37.750 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
7. 19:00:37.750 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/]
8. 19:00:37.757 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444
9. 19:00:37.757 INFO - Started org.mortbay.jetty.Server@3ff9f663
10. 19:00:38.310 INFO - Preparing Firefox profile...

It hangs at line 10 when I execute this same command with "*firefox" or "*chrome"

Please HELP!

Firefox version 23.0.1

Windows 8

Selenium - selenium.rc.version=1.0

Answer 1

Download Selenium RC version 2.35.0 and Try this. Let me know it doesn't work.

Answer 2

I had this problem after upgrading to Firefox 38. Going back to 37 solved the problem for me.