Getting "reached error page..." with selenium and geckodriver.

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Hello, I need some help. I have a Java 1.8 test application that uses Selenium 3 and the Firefox Geckodriver. The tests work perfectly when I'm at work but fail when I'm trying to work at home. Since I work exclusively on a virtual machine, and have cloned the work virtual machine for my home development environment I know that it is not the environment. The only difference is that at home I have to use our company VPN, Cisco AnyConnect. Today at work I logged into our VPN and got the same results I get at home so I pretty sure it has something to do with the VPN. What happens is this, I issue the call to WebDriver "get" method, a window appears the vanishes and I get the follow stack trace.

Any idea what might be going on?

Thanks,
Spence

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Reached error page: about:neterror?e=unknownProtocolFound&u=vmware-plugin%3A//csd%3FsessionId%3Di9Rb-2m6Z-cpPq-6fh7%26appName%3Dui%26version%3D2016&c=&f=regular&d=Firefox%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20know%20how%20to%20open%20this%20address%2C%20because%20one%20of%20the%20following%20protocols%20%28vmware-plugin%29%20isn%E2%80%99t%20associated%20with%20any%20program%20or%20is%20not%20allowed%20in%20this%20context.
Build info: version: '3.4.0', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: 'TAKE20', ip: 'xx.xx.xx.xxx', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_121'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
Capabilities [{moz:profile=C:\Users\skeller\AppData\Local\Temp\rust_mozprofile.K7m7yeY1Bvbn, rotatable=false, timeouts={implicit=0.0, pageLoad=300000.0, script=30000.0}, pageLoadStrategy=normal, platform=ANY, specificationLevel=0.0, moz:accessibilityChecks=false, acceptInsecureCerts=false, browserVersion=54.0.1, platformVersion=6.1, moz:processID=1380.0, browserName=firefox, javascriptEnabled=true, platformName=windows_nt}]
Session ID: d1a8a317-e468-4e3a-946a-6f06949b71f0
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Reached error page: about:neterror?e=unknownProtocolFound&u=vmware-plugin%3A//csd%3FsessionId%3Di9Rb-2m6Z-cpPq-6fh7%26appName%3Dui%26version%3D2016&c=&f=regular&d=Firefox%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20know%20how%20to%20open%20this%20address%2C%20because%20one%20of%20the%20following%20protocols%20%28vmware-plugin%29%20isn%E2%80%99t%20associated%20with%20any%20program%20or%20is%20not%20allowed%20in%20this%20context.
Build info: version: '3.4.0', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: 'TAKE20', ip: 'xx.xx.xx.xxx', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_121'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
Capabilities [{moz:profile=C:\Users\skeller\AppData\Local\Temp\rust_mozprofile.K7m7yeY1Bvbn, rotatable=false, timeouts={implicit=0.0, pageLoad=300000.0, script=30000.0}, pageLoadStrategy=normal, platform=ANY, specificationLevel=0.0, moz:accessibilityChecks=false, acceptInsecureCerts=false, browserVersion=54.0.1, platformVersion=6.1, moz:processID=1380.0, browserName=firefox, javascriptEnabled=true, platformName=windows_nt}]
Session ID: d1a8a317-e468-4e3a-946a-6f06949b71f0
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.createException(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:150)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:115)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:45)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:164)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:637)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.get(RemoteWebDriver.java:364)
at com.solidfire.vat.framework.browsers.VatBrowser.connect(VatBrowser.java:55)
at com.solidfire.vat.test_steps.BrowserSteps.openDefaultVcenterUrl(BrowserSteps.java:115)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.solidfire.vat.framework.threads.ThreadExecutor.call(ThreadExecutor.java:58)
at com.solidfire.vat.framework.threads.ThreadExecutor.call(ThreadExecutor.java:23)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

What I have tried:

I have search the web and can not find anything on this. I have also pretty much isolated the problem to be with Cisco Anyconnect and Selenium.

Thanks
Spence