Question

How can Custom Firefox Profiles be created and used in Selenium

Answer 1

Hi Vijay, to create Custom Firefox Profile and use it in Selenium, you can perform following steps:

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the File menu and then select Exit.
   
   
2. Press ‘Window + R’ to open Run dialog box. Type in: ‘firefox.exe -p' and then Click OK. 
   
   
3. Click the ‘Create Profile’ button on the ‘Firefox – Choose User Profile’ window that comes up.
   
   
4. Click ‘Next’ in the ‘Create Profile Wizard’ window that comes up.
   
   
    
5. Type in a new name ‘customProfile’ in the ‘Enter new profile name’ box and click ‘Finish’. 
   
   
    
6. Choose newly created profile and click "Start Firefox". 
7. Once the Automation Profile is created, add the below code to your test scripts to Instantiating the Firefox Driver:

   ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
   
   FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("customProfile");
   
   WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);