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jacob501
jacob501

Reputation: 375

Firefox wants to update when I am using selenium?

Firefox is up to date on my computer but when I use selenium sometimes it messes up my program by saying that I need to or should update. Eventually this window can stop my program from working..is there any way to stop this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2841

Answers (2)

KayakinKoder
KayakinKoder

Reputation: 3461

In addition to the accepted answer:

1.) You can change the two autoupdate settings he mentioned in about:config of your FF profile, if you are reusing the same FF profile each time you run tests

2.) There are additional settings (e.g. outdated plugins can cause FF to update, extension options to autoupdate need to be turned off) which may help: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections

3.) After doing both 1 and 2 above if you still have issues, deleting updater.exe from the Mozilla program folder (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ or the x86 location) might do the trick but could also, as deleting a file from the programs folder can do anytime, cause unexpected problems

Upvotes: 0

Paul Harris
Paul Harris

Reputation: 5819

If this is on a machine you have access to firefox has a setting that allows you to disable checking for updates which is the easiest way.

If you want to enforce this for all test runs, apparently the following should work:

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("app.update.auto", false);
profile.setPreference("app.update.enabled", false);
FirefoxDriver browser = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

Upvotes: 7

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