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POSelenium2 firefox: use the default profile
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copied!<p>Selenium2, by default, starts firefox with a fresh profile. I like that for a default, but for some good reasons (access to my bookmarks, saved passwords, use my add-ons, etc.) I want to start with my default profile.</p> <p>There is <a href="http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver" rel="nofollow noreferrer">supposed to be</a> a property controlling this but I think the docs are out of sync with the source, because as far as I can tell <code>webdriver.firefox.bin</code> is the only one that works. E.g. starting selenium with:</p> <pre><code>java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin=not-there </code></pre> <p>works (i.e. it complains). But this has no effect:</p> <pre><code>java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.profile=default </code></pre> <p>("default" is the name in profiles.ini, but I've also tried with "Profile0" which is the name of the section in profiles.ini).</p> <p>I'm using <a href="http://code.google.com/p/php-webdriver-bindings/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PHPWebdriver</a> (which uses JsonWireProtocol) to access:</p> <pre><code>$webdriver = new WebDriver("localhost", "4444"); $webdriver->connect("firefox"); </code></pre> <p>I tried doing it from the PHP side:</p> <pre><code>$webdriver->connect("firefox","",array('profile'=>'default') ); </code></pre> <p>or:</p> <pre><code>$webdriver->connect("firefox","",array('profile'=>'Profile0') ); </code></pre> <p>with no success (firefox starts, but not using my profile).</p> <p>I also tried the hacker's approach of creating a batch file:</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/firefox -P default </code></pre> <p>And then starting Selenium with: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin="/usr/local/src/selenium/myfirefox" </p> <p>Firefox starts, but not using by default profile and, worse, everything hangs: selenium does not seem able to communicate with firefox when started this way.</p> <p>P.S. I saw <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3650506/selenium-custom-firefox-profile">Selenium - Custom Firefox profile</a> I tried this:</p> <pre><code>java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate "not-there" </code></pre> <p>And it refuses to run! Excited, thinking I might be on to something, I tried:</p> <pre><code>java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate /path/to/0abczyxw.default/ </code></pre> <p>This does nothing. I.e. it still starts with a new profile :-(</p>

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