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Alberto Martín
Alberto Martín

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Using an existing Firefox profile in Selenium 2 - Doesn't work? A bug?

Besides having read all the posts about it in stackoverflow and many others, I have tried every idea people give, but I can't do it work.

Supposedly I should have Selenium 2 / Webdriver working with the profile I want in Firefox with these lines:

ProfilesIni allProfiles = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile profile = allProfiles.getProfile("My_Profile");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

OR

FirefoxProfile profile = new ProfilesIni().getProfile("path_to_profile");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

OR

several other ideas doesn't work either (at least for me).

Debugging my code and watching every element, I have realized that in fact, "my_profile" is into "allProfiles" collection, but when I try to get it, it doesn't work; it takes a "default-profile", not the one I want.

Is this some kind of bug? Is it possible to use a pre-existing profile?

--> My fault: It didn't work apparently because of the name of the profile; having nothing else to try, I've changed it so now it has just alphanumeric characters and now it works. Since I have solved it, I don't need more answers, but I wont delete the question because it could help someone else.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3821

Answers (1)

Alberto Martín
Alberto Martín

Reputation: 449

It didn't work apparently because of the name of the profile; having nothing else to try, I've changed it so now it has just alphanumeric characters and now it works. Since I have solved it, I don't need more answers, but I wont delete the question because it could help someone else.

Upvotes: 3

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