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Saravana
Saravana

Reputation: 21

How to disable JavaScript in browser using Selenium (Java)?

In my feature automation, I need to disable JavaScript in browser and run the flow. How to disable JavaScript?

Tried DesiredCapabilities for firefox and Chrome. 

DesiredCapabilities dc = new DesiredCapabilities();
dc.setCapability(CapabilityType.SUPPORTS_JAVASCRIPT, false)

And

DesiredCapabilities dc = new DesiredCapabilities();
dc.setJavascriptEnabled(false);

For firefox, tried 1) Setting up profile for firefox

2) Adding add-on - noScript.xpi

3) profile.setPreference("javascript.enabled", false);

4) Through UI, tried changing the flag - "javascript.enabled" in "about:config" to false. Here, opened firefox and gave "about:config" getting a warning - "This might void your warranty!". There is a button - "I'll be careful, I promise!" with id - warningButton. This button should be clicked to proceed further. To click this button, used driver.findElement(By.id("warningButton")).click(); but it not work.

All the above options are not working. Any advice will be helpful.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 13486

Answers (6)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193058

As per Selenium 3.6 Java Client Release, the easiest way to disable Javascript in the browser would be to set the setJavascriptEnabled argument through an instance of DesiredCapabilities to False and merge it through an instance of FirefoxOptions as follows:

package demo;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class Q46883024_setJavascriptEnabled 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
        DesiredCapabilities dc = new DesiredCapabilities();
        dc.setJavascriptEnabled(false);
        FirefoxOptions op = new FirefoxOptions();
        op.merge(dc);
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(op);
        driver.get("https://google.com");
        driver.quit();
    }
}

While execution, the browser you are using may override the setJavascriptEnabled settings.

Upvotes: 1

Mahdi
Mahdi

Reputation: 1852

This is how you can do it for Chrome in Java.

// import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("user-agent=\"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)\"");
HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_setting_values.javascript", 2);
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
new ChromeDriver(options);

And it worked for me with ChromeDriver 2.41.578706. As a bonus I am also setting Googlebot as user-agent.

In case you need to do something with DesiredCapabilities you can also convert the options above to capabilities:

// import static org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY;

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability(CAPABILITY, options);
new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

Upvotes: 0

Pankaj Kumar Katiyar
Pankaj Kumar Katiyar

Reputation: 1494

this works:

FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();      
options.addPreference("javascript.enabled", false);

Upvotes: 0

iampritamraj
iampritamraj

Reputation: 316

Truse me this was random trial but works perfectly for me

from selenium import webdriver

options= webdriver.ChromeOptions()

chrome_prefs = {}
options.experimental_options["prefs"] = chrome_prefs
chrome_prefs["profile.default_content_settings"] = {"javascript": 2}
chrome_prefs["profile.managed_default_content_settings"] = {"javascript": 2}
driver = webdriver.Chrome("your chromedriver path here",options=options)

driver.get('https://google.com/search?q=welcome to python world')

Example image here:-https://i.sstatic.net/DdKZQ.png

Upvotes: 1

AtachiShadow
AtachiShadow

Reputation: 392

I don't know Java, but maybe a solution for Python 3 will help you.

in Python, you can use Options() instead of FirefoxProfile() to deactivate JavaScript:

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
options = Options()
options.preferences.update({"javascript.enabled": False})
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
driver.get('about:config')

Maybe Java this:

FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
options.preferences.update({"javascript.enabled": False});
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
driver.get('about:config')

Upvotes: 5

Yash
Yash

Reputation: 9568

You change the preference value using profile with lots of options:

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
// setCapability(SUPPORTS_JAVASCRIPT, javascriptEnabled);
capabilities.setJavascriptEnabled(false);

FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary( new File( binaryPath ) );
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();

//profile.setPreference("preferenceName", "Value");
profile.setPreference("javascript.enabled", false);

RemoteWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(binary, profile, capabilities);

To view the preferences, you can visit the URL about:config

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Upvotes: 2

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