Import firefox profile

Firefox Profile As per Mozilla “Firefox saves your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, and user preferences in a set of files called your profile”. A person can have multiple profiles created each having a separate set of information. Need for a profile? Whenever Firefox is launched by Selenium WebDriver the plugins and settings present in our default profile are not available as each instance of a driver creates a temporary profile. To view the temporary profile launch the WebDriver instance and once the Firefox browser opens navigate to help and troubleshoot to view profile information. public class FirefoxProfile { public static void main(String[] args) { System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\driver\\geckodriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.manage().window().maximize(); driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); driver.get(" } } Click on the Show Folder button to view the details of the temporary profiles created. Profile Creation in Firefox We can create our own Firefox profiles and can call that specific profile each time when we automate using WebDriver so that our execution will be more efficient and reliable. Some scenarios like handling of SSL certificates are also done by custom profile creation. Steps to create profile Open Run command Type firefox.exe -p and click on ok A dialog box will be open → Firefox-Choose User Profile Select Create Profile button and click on next Enter Profile name and click on finish button Now verify the profile creation in very first pop up that appeared From now on, We can use the newly created profile in our WebDriver scripts. WebDriver Script for Using Custom Profile To call custom profiles on Firefox, We must use the WebDriver inbuilt class(ProfilesIni). The getProfile() method will help us in calling the created Firefox profile import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.ProfilesIni; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile; public class FirefoxProfileCreate { public static void main(String[] args) { System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\driver\\geckodriver.exe"); ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni(); FirefoxProfile fox = profile.getProfile("SeleniumTest"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(fox); driver.manage().window().maximize(); driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); driver.get(" } } Install your Firefox profile with the Firebug extension and close the browser. Now use the above code to run your profile. Verify the instance of Firefox browser also has

By importing Selenium and creating a ChromeOptions object:from selenium import webdriverimport timeoptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions() prefs = {"download.default_directory" : "/path/to/downloads/folder"}options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)This sets the downloads folder path using the prefs dictionary.Step 2: Launch Chrome Browser with OptionsNext, launch Chrome driver using the custom options:driver = webdriver.Chrome( executable_path=‘./chromedriver‘, chrome_options=options)Pass the path to ChromeDriver executable and chrome_options object.Step 3: Write Test Logic for File DownloadNow navigate to the site and click the download link:driver.get(‘ = driver.find_element(By.ID, ‘consent‘)consent.click() download = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, ‘Download PDF‘)download.click()time.sleep(10) driver.quit()This will perform the steps to trigger file download:Visit example.comAccept cookie consentFind download link using text Click link to download fileWait for 10s to allow download That‘s it! This automation will successfully download files from any site using Selenium binding for Python in Chrome.Now let‘s look at handling Firefox downloads.Automating File Downloads in Firefox using SeleniumFirefox uses profiles to customize browser preferences including download options. Here is how to configure Firefox profile for download automation:Step 1: Import Selenium BindingsThe imports are the same as Chrome:from selenium import webdriverimport timeStep 2: Create New Firefox Profileprofile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() profile.set_preference(‘browser.download.dir‘, ‘/home/user/downloads‘)profile.set_preference(‘browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk‘, ‘application/pdf‘)This does the following:Creates FirefoxProfile objectSets custom download folder path Adds MIME types to disable download promptStep 3: Launch Browser with ProfileNow create Firefox WebDriver using the profile:driver = webdriver.Firefox( firefox_profile=profile, executable_path=r‘./geckodriver‘ )Pass the profile object along with geckodriver path .Step 4: Add Test LogicThe test steps are similar to Chrome:driver.get(‘ = driver.find_element(By.ID, ‘consent‘)consent.click()download = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, ‘Download Test Files‘)download.click() time.sleep(10)driver.quit() This will browse tester.com, accept consent, find download link via text, and click to download.The file will be saved to the defined downloads folder automatically.Step 5: Run the TestThe final script looks like:from selenium import webdriverimport timeprofile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() profile.set_preference(‘browser.download.dir‘, ‘/home/user/downloads‘)profile.set_preference(‘browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk‘, ‘application/pdf‘)driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile, executable_path=r‘./geckodriver‘)driver.get(‘ = driver.find_element(By.ID, ‘consent‘)consent.click() download = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, ‘Download Test Files‘) download.click()time.sleep(10)driver.quit()And that‘s it! Your automation script can now download any

These two files again to import passwords. Here is how to do that.To export passwordsStep 1: Open the Run command dialog. Type the following path and then press Enter key to open Firefox Profiles folder.%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Step 2: Under the Profiles folder, you should see your profile folder. If you have more than one profiles, you will see two or more folders. If you have only one profile, your passwords are stored in the default profile.Step 3: Open up the profile folder and locate key4.db and logins.json files. Copy these files and save them in a safe location (preferably offline) to backup passwords.To import passwordsWe advise you to do this immediately after reinstalling Firefox or Windows as replacing existing key4.db and logins.json files with previously backed up files will delete currently saved passwords, if any.Step 1: Open the Run command box, type the following path and then press Enter key to open Profiles folder.%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Step 2: Open up the profile folder. Copy and paste the previously backed up key4.db and logins.json files to your profile folder. That’s it!Method 3 of 5Use PasswordFox to backup Firefox passwordsPasswordFox is a free utility from the well-known NirSoft and is trustable. Simply download and run PasswordFox to view all saved passwords in Firefox. It shows all password saved in Firefox along with username and URL. It’s important to note that this tool works great on Firefox 57 and 58 as well.To export all passwords to an HTML file, select all passwords and then click HTML Report – All items option. If you want to backup only select passwords, select passwords that you want to backup and then click HTML Report – Selected items option.Download PasswordFoxMethod 4 of 5Use FF Password Exporter to export passwordsFF Password Exporter is a free program for both Windows as well as macOS to back up passwords saved in the Mozilla Firefox browser. It enables you to export saved passwords to CSV or JSON files.Download FF Password ExporterMethod 5 of 5Manually note down Firefox passwordsIf you don’t want to use a third-party solution and don’t want to backup Key4.db and Logins.json files as well, you have no option but to manually backup all saved passwords by noting down each username and password. The method becomes cumbersome when you have tens of passwords.Step 1: Open Firefox. Press the Alt key, click Tools, and then click Options.Step 2: Switch to the Privacy & Security tab. Click the Saved Logins button and then click Show passwords button to view all saved passwords. If you have set a master password, you need to type the same to view all saved passwords.Step 3: Note down all usernames, URLs, and passwords in a text editor or piece of paper.You