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Eloise
Eloise

Reputation: 539

How can I set my Firefox browser in private mode in Selenium 2.53.1?

I'm on selenium 2.53.0 (I don't want to update to 3.0 because I need to work on Firefox and Selenium did not implement actions for FF).

My problem is: I try to open FF in private mode (I don't want to keep the cache because I ran a lot of FF instances)

For that, I use a FF profile and I have a certificate, so I accept it.

My code is : 

        FirefoxDriverManager.getInstance().setup();

        capabilities.setBrowserName("firefox");
        capabilities.setVersion("46");

        ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
        FirefoxProfile ffProfile = profile.getProfile("default");

        ffProfile.setPreference("browser.private.browsing.autostart", true); 
        ffProfile.setPreference("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", true);

        //accept the certificate
        ffProfile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);
        ffProfile.setAssumeUntrustedCertificateIssuer(false);
        capabilities.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, ffProfile);
        WebDriver webDriver = new FirefoxDriver();

I tried "browser.private.browsing.autostart" and "browser.privatebrowsing.autostart" because when I did about:config in firefox, i found this two.

I did not received any error, firefox run my test but not in private. Do you have any idea? I found this post but it haven't have answer.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5718

Answers (2)

spy
spy

Reputation: 3258

FirefoxOptions opts = new FirefoxOptions();
opts.addArguments("-private");
FirefoxDrive f = new FirefoxDriver(opts);

working currently with FF v54 and selenium 3.4.0

Upvotes: 6

Xwris Stoixeia
Xwris Stoixeia

Reputation: 1861

On your code sample above you are trying twice to set the profile. Try removing one of the arguments? AS long as

 ffProfile.setPreference("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", true);

is not working for you, there is an alternative workaround solution; so you can work until you figure this out.

Find any element at the page you are visiting where you want the private window to be opened. For example:

Driver.FindElement(By.ByXpath(//div[@id="loginButton"])).sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.SHIFT, "P"));

And then send a Ctrl+Shift+p to it..Then you can use the new private window for your test. Perhaps not the best solution but, this will work 100%, just tested on my machine, please comment below if you have trouble getting this right.

Best of luck!

Upvotes: 4

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