Looking for Selenium command line options for Firefox

[Pete Ford]

Hi everyone,

I am looking for Selenium command line options for Firefox to change the user directory. Basically, I am currently using the following command line option to change the user data directory in Chrome, and I am looking for a similar command line option for Firefox. I do not seem to be able to find it on the Internet. Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.

chromeOptions=["user-data-dir=C:\temp"]

Thanks.

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

Pete,

Can you please elaborate your problem statement and let us know what you are trying to solve?

AFAIK, the user directory in the Chrome world is equivalent to firefox profiles in the Firefox world. Doesnt a firefox profile work for you?

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Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Pete Ford]

Thanks for your reply. I am starting brand new Firefox profile every time the browser is launched, and I have no control over how this is behaving due to project requirements. However, the specific client application I am testing downloads an application to a local user directory where the new profile does not have access to. I need to change the user directory to a different location where I can access it in Firefox. The chromeOptions posted above does exactly what I need in Chrome. I am trying to find the corresponding option in Firefox.

Thanks.

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

Pete,

Please take a look at this answer on stackoverflow : https://stackoverflow.com/a/36309735/679824

Basically you should try creating a profile via code, wherein you set the attributes

options.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
options.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "C:\\Windows\\temp");
options.setPreference("browser.download.useDownloadDir", true);

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Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Mark Collin]

For a list of Firefox command line options have a look at:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options

For a list of Firefox capabilities look at:

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/geckodriver/geckodriver/Capabilities.html#capabilities-example