Anybody know how to get rid or the download progress pop-up in Firefox?

[Terry Lacy]

I'm using FF 39.0 and Selenium Java WebDriver 2.47.1.

I've asked before, but maybe I was using the wrong name for things so it wasn't clear what I was asking.  Pictures also help.

I want to prevent the download progress pop-up pictured here from appearing during my tests. 

I'm hoping there's a setting in about:config that'll do it, but I've tried a whole bunch of things without success.  I looked for any config options with "download" in the name, but none of them seem to hide the pop-up entirely.  I can limit the number of downloads that appear in the pop-up, but I've never been able to get rid of it.

Thanks,
Terry

[Terry Lacy]

Also, I'm running my tests on Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 Server, and Ubuntu 14.04 desktop.

[Doug Dragon]

Maybe this will help?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/822640

[Terry Lacy]

Sorry for the delay in replying.  Forgot to check "email updates", I guess.

Nope, "browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete" doesn't do it.  The popup still appears.

So, short of having a manually configured profile, which I don't like because I want a fresh profile for every test suite, looks like there's no way to get rid of it.

Terry

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Terry

Ideally speaking you shouldn't be doing downloads via the UI. You might want to take a look at the below links to see if it helps.

• http://ardesco.lazerycode.com/index.php/2012/07/how-to-download-files-with-selenium-and-why-you-shouldnt/
• https://github.com/Ardesco/What-Did-You-Download

With respect to profiles, please be informed that irrespective of whether you use a manually created profile or not, Selenium always creates a fresh profile when it spawns a firefox browser.

If no profile was given then selenium creates a new anonymous profile and works with it.

If an existing profile was given then selenium makes a copy of the given profile and then works with it (so its as good as new)

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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