I'm on EC2 instance. So there is no GUI. $pip install selenium $sudo apt-get install firefox xvfb Then I do this: $Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x24 2>&1 >/dev/null & $DISPLAY=:1 java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b3.jar 05:08:31.227 INFO - Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. 19.0-b09 05:08:31.229 INFO - OS: Linux 2.6.32-305-ec2 i386 05:08:31.233 INFO - v2.0 [b3], with Core v2.0 [b3] 05:08:32.121 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub 05:08:32.122 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x 05:08:32.123 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver] 05:08:32.124 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server] 05:08:32.124 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/] 05:08:32.291 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler@1186fab 05:08:32.292 INFO - Started HttpContext[/wd,/wd] 05:08:32.295 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444 05:08:32.295 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.Server@1ffb8dc Great, everything should work now, right? When I run my code: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get("http://www.yahoo.com") I get this: Error: cannot open display: :0 Continue reading...