Encountered a fun error: Failed to start up socket within 45000

Encountered a fun error: Failed to start up socket within 45000.

Firefox had updated itself to version 17. The Selenium version is 2.21.0.0 for the following DLLs:

• Selenium.WebDriverBackedSelenium.dll
• ThoughtWorks.Selenium.Core.dll
• WebDriver.dll
• WebDriver.Support.dll

The solution is as follows:

1. Uninstall updated version of Firefox
2. Download and install Version 14 of Firefox. (Other versions may also work, but this worked for me)
3. Launch Firefox and in options make the following changes: