Firefox's "this connection is not secured" pop-up error.

[ass...@centerity.com]

In the log-in screen (and some other random places), Firefox is warning me not to feed secure information. He's right, but that's not the point. I DO need to automate the login phase to a dependable level, and having this message randomly popping up (well, probably the "randomness" is precise timing issues) - well, it's failing my tests.

What happens is that instead of clicking "login", the popup from Firefox is clicked, resulting in, well, failure.

The solution is apparently easy. Disable the "security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled" key.

However, I disabled it a few times already, and Firefox keeps forgetting that.

Is there any way to instruct Selenium to ignore this nasty little popup?

Many thanks in advance,

Assaf.

[Shawn McCarthy]

Selenium doesn't use your existing firefox profile unless you tell it to. That is why saving the option manually is not doing anything for you. Try this :

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled", false);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

[Andreas Tolfsen]

Also sprach Shawn McCarthy:

> Selenium doesn't use your existing firefox profile unless you tell it
> to. That is why saving the option manually is not doing anything for
> you. Try this :
>
> FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();

> profile.setPreference("security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled", false <http://www.google.com>);
> driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

It would be significantly more performant to pass this preference in as
part of the moz:firefoxOptions dictionary:

{"capabilities":
{"desiredCapabilities":
{"moz:firefoxOptions":
{"prefs": [{"security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled": false}]}
}
}
}