Re: Not able to open browser with customize firefox profile

[kaprikorn07]

Hi Chan,

I think that is not the right way to do it. It should be like this:

Start Selenium Server

-firefoxProfileTemplate

/path/to/the/profile

Then you do:  Open browser  <url> 

Best regards!

[chan]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. The approach you mention is for SeleniumLibrary.

I was trying to run a script that import Selenium2Library.

However, I have created another set of test script that import SeleniumLibrary and follow the way you suggested but the test still not able to launch the firefox browser with custom profile. I think it keep launching the browser with the default profile where the new window will not be open in new tab.

I came across this reply from selenium: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1516

Do you know if there's any other way that can solve this problem? I am using Windows 7.

For Selenium2Library, I am able to change the prefs.js of the profile bundled together with the library and able to launch new window in new tab. The problem is, I am not able to use other cutom firefox profile.

Thanks,

Ho Sang

[Vara]

Could any body found the solution to following issue

- Opening Browser on custom firefox profile

 

Thanks,

Vara

[Tatu aalto]

Ugh

I use quite often custom FireFox profile, but in Linux. As far I can remember, it works as documented (do not have test case now at hand and profile is quite deep in lower level keywords).

But I do remember that escape character's could be tricky, specially in windows. But without seeing you test case it is hard say more

-Tatu

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[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

I did try it in windows, with similar code:
*** Settings ***
Library           Selenium2Library

*** Test Cases ***
bar
    Open Browser    https://www.google.fi/    ff    ff_profile_dir=C:\\tmp\\default\\
    Sleep    2
    [Teardown]    Close All Browsers


And for me, it works OK. The default directory contains a copy of my own windows profile (containing all the .sqlite, .ini and so on files). I did modify the windows size and when using the profile, I did see that RF open Firefox with the same size window.  

I though that for Firefox, one could enable debug log from webdriver, but I did not find anything like this. Best that I can offer, is that I see this from the RF debug file:
+-- START KW: Selenium2Library.Open Browser [ https://www.google.fi/ | ff | ff_profile_dir=C:\\tmp\\default\\ ]
Opening browser 'ff' to base url 'https://www.google.fi/'
POST http://127.0.0.1:50758/hub/session {"sessionId": null, "desiredCapabilities": {"platform": "ANY", "browserName": "firefox", "version": "", "javascriptEnabled": true}}
POST http://127.0.0.1:50758/hub/session/0b5a3ed2-6e81-44ef-bf26-f7e76db2817e/timeouts/async_script {"sessionId": "0b5a3ed2-6e81-44ef-bf26-f7e76db2817e", "ms": 5000.0}
POST http://127.0.0.1:50758/hub/session/0b5a3ed2-6e81-44ef-bf26-f7e76db2817e/timeouts/implicit_wait {"sessionId": "0b5a3ed2-6e81-44ef-bf26-f7e76db2817e", "ms": 0.0}
POST http://127.0.0.1:50758/hub/session/0b5a3ed2-6e81-44ef-bf26-f7e76db2817e/url {"url": "https://www.google.fi/", "sessionId": "0b5a3ed2-6e81-44ef-bf26-f7e76db2817e"}
Opened browser with session id 0b5a3ed2-6e81-44ef-bf26-f7e76db2817e
+-- END KW: Selenium2Library.Open Browser (13253)

-Tatu

On 19.2.2013 10:15, varaprasad bonam wrote:

Below is the code i am using..

 

*** Settings ***

Library    Selenium2Library

 

*** Test Cases ***

Simple Test FF
 Open Browser  http://google.com  ff ff_profile_dir=D:\\FFProfile\\

 

Thanks,

VaraPrasad

[sourabh saini]

Hi,

I am facing the same issue, its not working. Have you got it resolved?

Regards,

Sourabh Saini

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[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

It should work OK, because I use ff profile on daily basis. Could you share example that can be run and shows the problem?

-Tatu
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[sourabh saini]

Hi,

The code I am using is below,

Open Local Browser

[Arguments]    ${browser}=ff

 Open Browser    ${IONWEBLOCALURL}#user=${IONWEBUSER}&pwd=${IONWEBUSERPASSWORD}&workspace=${IONWEBWORKSPACE}    ${browser}    ff_profile_dir=D:\\firefoxprofile\\saini\\

I am using this on OS: windows7, Browser: FireFox 29.01

Regards,

Sourabh Saini

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Without seeing inside of the variables, I would guess that it is #-character in the URL. #-character is a special character and you need to escape it. User guide explain this [1].

-Tatu
[1] http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#escaping
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[Jerison Joy]

And my guess is the backslashes(\\)used in the ff_profile definition. 

 ff_profile_dir=D:\\firefoxprofile\\saini\\

I have used below code and it works fine:

${FF_PROFILE} D:/Automation/FFProfile

Open Browser ${loginUrl} ${browser} ff_profile_dir=${FF_PROFILE}

Thanks,

Jerry

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

And that guess is wrong. \\ is a proper way to express folder separators in the windows world. This is also explained in link I did post.

-Tatu
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