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queeg
queeg

Reputation: 9412

Firefox configuration via CLI

During system setup and later for automatic testing (whether specific configuration settings are still effective) I am interested in configuring Firefox via CLI. I have seen one or the other command line tool but they would always cover only one aspect of Firefox and are usually bound to a specific version.

To be more clear about this, let me list some of the use cases for the CLI:

Is there no command line interface officially supported?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1416

Answers (1)

Dexter
Dexter

Reputation: 2480

Firefox command line interface is indeed officially supported, but at this moment in time is under documented. While it's possible to find some outdated documentation, the in-tree documentation is only a stub.

Since you mentioned automated testing, you might also consider the approach currently being used by Mozilla to run tests on Firefox:

  1. Generate a profile to be used for testing.
  2. Tweak the preferences in the profile (e.g. using user.js).
  3. Start Firefox using the generated profile (either using -p or --profile).
  4. Execute your tests (with Geckodriver?).

Upvotes: 1

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