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I've been trying to get my add-ons to work with my driver(driver as in webdriver.Firefox(profile)). I have no idea how to import (or if its optional at all) my regular Firefox profile. The one, i assume, contains all my add-ons.
Help is needed indeed.
Beside a solution (if available) an explanation to why my add-ons do not exist on the selenium webdriver could be a nice touch.
Thank very much!!
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To make Firefox work with Python selenium, you need to install the geckodriver. The geckodriver driver will start the real firefox browser and supports Javascript. Take a look at the selenium firefox code. First import the webdriver, then make it start firefox.
Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests.
WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. It provides a platform- and language-neutral wire protocol as a way for out-of-process programs to remotely instruct the behavior of web browsers.
If you do this, and set path_to_my_profile to where your usual profile resided, then Selenium should use your profile:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver import FirefoxProfile
profile = FirefoxProfile(path_to_my_profile)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)
I've not done this myself but I say this based on having read the code of Selenium. The reason Selenium does not use your profile by default is that by default a FirefoxProfile object is created with None as the first argument, which means "create a new profile for the Firefox instance we're about to launch".
By the way, what Selenium does by default (creating a new profile) is the best practice to ensure the repeatability of tests. It is a good thing.
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