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Edvac
Edvac

Reputation: 51

Geckodriver 0.16.0 start firefox with flashplayer

Since geckodriver v0.16.0 flashplayer is disabled by default. Is there any possibility to start firefox with enabled flashplayer?

I'm using C#. My code right now:

var profileManager = new FirefoxProfileManager();
FirefoxProfile profile = profileManager.GetProfile("selenium"); //created firefox user named selenium
profile.SetPreference("plugin.state.flash", 1);

Code bellow doesn't work for me:

profile.SetPreference("dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so", true);

When I use this one:

profile.SetPreference("plugin.state.flash", 1);

firefox is asking if I want to enable flashplayer, and than refreshes page (with all inputs filled previously - so i got empty fields). If I select "allow and remember", next time I start this code nothig is saved. I'm getting the same situation.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1243

Answers (2)

Edvac
Edvac

Reputation: 51

I found solution there: How to enable Adobe Flash in FireFox Selenium webdriver with FirefoxProfile

If I replaced profile.setPreference("plugin.state.flash", 1); to profile.setPreference("plugin.state.flash", 2); it stopped to asking me if I want to enable flash player.

Upvotes: 1

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193088

Here is the solution for you:

With Selenium 4.3.0, gecko driver v0.16.0 & Mozilla Firefox 53.0 this code works well with myfreecams.com.

It is worth mentioning that the default Firefox profile is not very automation friendly. When you want to run automation reliably on a Firefox browser it is advisable to make a separate profile. Automation profile should be light to load and have special proxy and other settings to run good test. You should be consistent with the profile you use on all development and test execution machines. If you used different profiles everywhere, the SSL certificates you accepted or the plug-ins you installed would be different and that would make the tests behave differently on the machines.

So, Create a New Firefox profile and use the same in the Test script involves three steps process. First you need to Start the Profile Manager, second is to Create a New Profile and third is to use the same profile in Test scripts. Let's assume we created a new FirefoxProfile by the name "debanjan".

Use the following code to open http://www.myfreecams.com/ with your new FirefoxProfile "debanjan":

    String driverPath = "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\";
    //Mozila Firefox
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", driverPath+"geckodriver.exe");
    ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
    FirefoxProfile testprofile = profile.getProfile("debanjan");
    DesiredCapabilities dc = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
    dc.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, testprofile);
    FirefoxDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver(dc);
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.navigate().to("http://www.myfreecams.com/");

PS: This code is in Java so you may have to convert it into C# format.

Let me know, if this helps you.

Upvotes: 0

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