Selenium not navigate to given URL

What a silly day for me! I was setting up a Selenium project using Maven in Eclipse IDE, somehow the browser was launched but not navigating to the given URL. It just showing blank screen after launched.

Remember in some years back, I have encountering this issue before but this problem is due to the network was behind a proxy server. Since I'm doing it at home, I'm sure I don't have any proxy server setup. I give up to do it on Maven, make it a traditional project, import the Selenium JAR manually. It works! (What a joke!)

I spend my whole day looking at the source code, searching for the root cause then only I find out it is actually cause by the Maven configuration. Code snippet below shows the original Maven configuration:

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupid>junit</groupid>
      <artifactid>junit</artifactid>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
     <groupid>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupid>
     <artifactid>selenium-remote-driver</artifactid>
     <version>2.33.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
     <groupid>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupid>
     <artifactid>selenium-firefox-driver</artifactid>
     <version>2.33.0</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

See that the Selenium version number was set to 2.33, have a check on the Selenium site (as of this writing), the latest version was 2.39. To conclude this, using the wrong version may cause the Selenium not navigate to the given URL.