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Author Topic: Selenium and third party plugins  (Read 461 times)

from mars

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Selenium and third party plugins
« on: April 02, 2012, 08:02:50 PM »
Hi,
 When I use Selenium to launch firefox, most likely the browser will
 not run the third party's plugin. For example,  I have firebug
 installed, launching firefox by Selenium won't show the firebug icon
 on the menu bar. I also notice that cookie.sqlite or other firefox
 database, under /Users/[user name]/Library/Application\ Support/
 Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxx.defaul, won't get updated via Selenium. Is
 there a way for me to enable third party plugins when using Selenium
 web driver? or, should I put something in pom.xml?
 
Thanks a lot in advance,
 Frances

Luke Inman-Semerau

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Re: Selenium and third party plugins
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 08:03:06 PM »
Selenium uses a "clean" firefox profile by default, unless you tell it to
 use one already created (like your default user one).
 
You can either have WebDriver load firefox with your user profile:
 http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html#modifying-the-firefox-pr...
 
Or you can tell firefox to load specific Addons:
 http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver#Running_with_fir...
 (Just change the .xpi for different addons as desired).
 
-Luke
 

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