I am running tests on a location-aware site. I can tell Chrome or IE to always allow geo-locate for that one page, but Firefox always forgets once I close the browser.
Anyone else ever encounter this?
The Selenium driver for Firefox seems to create a new, anonymous profile with each run by default. Hence your settings won't persist, as they will be discarded together with the profile after a run.
You should:
Set up your FirefoxProfile instance to use .setPreference("geo.prompt.testing", true); and .setPreference("geo.prompt.testing.allow", true);.
or set up an existing profile with the either the above preferences or explicitly allow your site. Then set the webdriver.firefox.profile Java System property or use the public FirefoxProfile(File profileDir) constructor to use that existing profile.
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Basically I'm trying out Selenium webdriver (using FireFox) and right now I am trying to sign up to a Google account.
However, the strange thing is that whenever I run Selenium and let it use the (empty I assume?) Selenium FireFox profile Google seems to detect it and block me (asking for phone vertification).
This is even the case when I load up the selenium profile and manually sign up.
When I sign up manually (and don't use the selenium profile) I can sign up just fine.
Is the Selenium FireFox profile some how special which enables the servers to detect it?
EDIT: I'm trying to startup selenium with my default FF profile (however it keeps starting up in an empty profile) - here's the code:
OpenQA.Selenium.Proxy proxySetting = new OpenQA.Selenium.Proxy();
proxySetting.HttpProxy = proxy;
proxySetting.FtpProxy = proxy;
proxySetting.SslProxy = proxy;
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile("default");
profile.SetProxyPreferences(proxySetting);
profile.SetPreference("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", true);
_driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
EDIT:
I managed to open the default firefox profile but now it doesn't use my proxy settings. How can I use the normal profile and still customize the profile proxies?
This post talks about an HtmlDriver tag being added to the HTML in the FirefoxDriver which would be a dead giveaway
Google is a strong supporter of Open Source, and even Selenium itself, however I don't think Google would particularly condone a Selenium script creating a bunch of spam accounts that probably would never be used, and just take space.
That being said, I believe that it would be possible potentially.
The only way that Google would be able to know you are using Selenium, is based on the Request Headers. It's possible either the User-Agent has something to do with Selenium, or one of the other Headers.
My solution would be to use something like Fiddler to listen to the requests that Firefox is sending, and then edit your Selenium scripts to account for, and change those requests so Google does not know that you are using Selenium.
This most likely goes against their terms of use, so exercise caution, and use this answer for educational purposes only.
Is there a chance, if you were using the complete path to your firefox profile directory? (e.g. C:\Users\???\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\your_profile.default)
Extension Link: https://www.dephormation.org.uk/?page=81
This plugin is great. It has one problem though, on pages that use AJAX to make http requests, it switches the user agent for each request and confuses many ajax applications.
What I want to do is figure out where the preferences for this plugin are saved. Particularly, where all the User-Agent Strings that are currently being used are located. I would like to do this so that I could edit these settings outside of firefox before I open the browser so as to "hot swap" one user agent string for each browsing session at a time. I have looked through all kinds of .sqlite databases in my firefox profile but still haven't found the information.
I am using Watir-Webdriver with ruby to application test.
As Mr Palant said... simply changing general.useragent.override would achieve what you want.
Type about:config in the address bar, accept the warning, and filter on useragent and you'll see the setting.
I gather (but haven't tested) this preference may not affect the user agent presented to client side Javascript code. So if your Ajax code references navigator.useragent you might find the real user agent is returned despite your override setting.
Pete (author of SecretAgent).
www.secretagent.org.uk
PS See also
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Document_Object_Model_%28DOM%29/window.navigator.userAgent
You don't need an add-on for that - changing general.useragent.override preference (create it if not present yet) is enough to set a different user agent string. In Firefox you can do it under about:config, when Firefox isn't running you can add this preference to the file prefs.js in the Firefox profile.
I know that with watir-WebDriver, I can make use of RubyBindings to have the browser load specific profiles or Firefox add-ons when I create a new browser instance. However, can I use Watir to actually use the add-on(s) I open?
The reason I ask is that I am trying to implement a web scraper to navigate to websites and record HTTP interactions. However, since Tamper Data already does the HTTP request/response logging I require, I'd rather use its functionality instead of having to redo it myself.
If this is not possible, I'm wondering if anyone knows a unit tester that will allow me to:
Open a Firefox browser & load Tamper Data
Navigate to specified pages
Click a button on Tamper Data's UI
You can't interact with extensions using bare watir/webdriver as far as i know, need to find a workaround ... Try something like rautomation - https://github.com/jarmo/RAutomation or autoit - http://www.autoitscript.com/site/
This works for me to launch firebug:
Win 7 & XP:
require 'watir-webdriver'
default = Watir::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
If you are admin on your machine it will be the following... otherwise search and provide path:
default.add_extension("/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/krqve9uc.firebug/extensions/firebug#software.joehewitt.com.xpi")
b = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox, :profile => default)
The problem: toggle javascript support without restarting firefox (nor resorting to different driver) during cucumber test run.
If Firefox's prefutils were exposed to javascript in a web page, that would make it possible. But it is not the case.
So, is there a plugin that does it? Or is there another way to solve the problem? Or is there a good tutorial (that highlights the exposing bit) on how to make such a plugin?
Edit
On a second thought, how would javascript be of any help once it is disabled? Probably the whole idea is a bit screwed.
I assume that your tests run with normal web content privileges. In that case, they aren't going to be able to affect browser settings such as whether JavaScript is enabled (I assume that's what you mean by "toggle JavaScript support").
I'd implement a simple XPCOM component with a method to turn JS support on and off (by setting the appropriate pref). You can expose it as a JavaScript global property so that your tests can access it. See Expose an XPCOM component to javascript in a web page for more details. Package your component in an extension and make sure it is installed in the Firefox instance where your tests are running.
If you want to access the preferences API directly from your content script, you can add the following prefs to Firefox, either in about:config or by adding the following lines to prefs.js in your profile directory:
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p1.granted", "UniversalXPConnect UniversalBrowserRead UniversalBrowserWrite UniversalPreferencesRead UniversalPreferencesWrite UniversalFileRead");
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p1.id", "http://www.example.com");
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p1.subjectName", "");`
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);
Replace www.example.com with the domain that you want to grant the privileges to. Also add this line to your JS code before you call the preferences API:
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect');
A local file (something loaded from file:///) is allowed to request additional privileges. Normally you would get a prompt asking whether you want to allow access - you can "auto-accept" the prompt by adding the following lines to prefs.js in the Firefox profile:
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p0.granted", "UniversalXPConnect");
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p0.id", "file://");
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p0.subjectName", "");
You page can then do:
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");
var branch = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefBranch);
branch.setBoolPref("javascript.enabled", false);
This will definitely work if your page is a local file. Judging by the error message however, you are currently running code from about:blank. It might be that changing capability.principal.codebase.p0.id into about:blank or into moz-safe-about:blank will allow that page to get extended privileges as well but I am not sure.
However, none of this will really help if JavaScript is already disabled and you need to enable it. This can only be solved by writing an extension and adding it to the test profile. JavaScript in Firefox extensions works regardless of this setting.
That means you need Javascript to toggle enabling or disabling Javascript.
function setJavascriptPref(bool) {
prefs = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefBranch);
prefs.setBoolPref("javascript.enabled", bool);
}
I'm developing an addon using Firefox Add-on SDK. I am using cfx to run my addons when testing.
The app posts some text when highlighted to twitter.
The problem is each time I modify the code I have to log back into twitter. Is there any way to ensure cookies are saved whilst testing/debugging? Similar to what happens when you open and close Firefox normally?
What are your parameters for calling cfx? By default, cxf executes in a new profile.
You need to use -p PROFILEDIR or --profiledir=PROFILEDIR param to use a specific profile, and associated settings.
From notes # https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/sdk/1.0b5/docs/dev-guide/addon-development/cfx-tool.html