How to stop Selenium from creating temporary Firefox Profiles using Web Driver?

Question

I am using Selenium Web Driver API with Java. Every time I want to debug my test cases, a temporary profile for Firefox is created in the temporary files directory. This is a headache in two ways.

1. It definitely is taking unnecessary time to create a profile and is taking unnecessary space.
2. I cannot install any addons that will be available next time I launch my test cases.

How do I get around this?

Answer 1

You can control how the Firefox driver chooses the profile. Set the webdriver.firefox.profile property to the name of the profile you want to use. Most folks think this is a bad idea, because you'll inherit all the cookies, cache contents, etc. of the previous uses of the profile, but it's allowed if you really want to do it.

For example:

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.profile", "MySeleniumProfile"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(...); 

UPDATE - From Ranhiru

How I handled it for Java

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File("D:\\Selenium Profile"));                   WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile); 

Then I changed settings in Firefox to clear all cookies and cache when exiting. Look here on how to do it.

Answer 2

Be sure you call

driver.quit(); 

instead of

driver.close(); 

close() will not delete temporary files