How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver

Details

Firefox profile is the collection of settings, customization, add-ons and other personalization settings that can be done on the Firefox Browser. You can customize Firefox profile to suit your Selenium automation requirement.

Also, Firefox or any other browser handles the SSL certificates settings. So automating them makes a lot of sense along with the test execution code.

In short a profile is a user's personal settings. When you want to run a reliable automation on a Firefox browser, it is recommended to make a separate profile.

In this tutorial, you will learn-

Location of your profile folder in the disk

Firefox profile is just like different users using Firefox. Firefox saves personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, and user preferences which can be edited, deleted or created using the program manager.

How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver

Location of profile is as follows

In order to run a successful Selenium Test, a Firefox profile should be -

How to create a Firefox profile

Let see step by step how to create a Firefox profile.

Step 1) First of all close the Firefox if open.

Step 2) Open Run (windows key + R) and type firefox.exe –p and click OK

How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver

Note: If it doesn't open you can try using full path enclosed in quotes.

Step 3) A dialogue box will open named Firefox – choose user profile

How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver

Step 4) Select option "Create Profile" from the window, and a wizard will open. Click on next

How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver

Step 5) Give your profile name which you want to create and click on finish button

How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver

Now your profile is ready you can select your profile and open Firefox.

You will notice that the new Firefox window will not show any of your Bookmarks and Favorite icons.

Note: The last selected profile, will load automatically at next Firefox launch. You will need to restart profile manager if you wish to change profiles.

Automation Script for Selenium

To access newly created Firefox profile in Selenium Webdriver software test, we need to use webdrivers inbuilt class 'profilesIni' and it's method getProfile as shown below.

Selenium code for the profile

This is a code to implement a profile, which can be embedded in the selenium code. 

ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();

// this will create an object for the Firefox profile 

FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("xyzProfile");

// this will Initialize the Firefox driver 

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile)

Let see the implementation of this code in following examples.

Firefox Profile Example 1

How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver 

// import the package
import java.io.File;
      import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
      import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
      import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.ProfilesIni;
public class FirefoxProfile {
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
	ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
	FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("xyzProfile");
// Initialize Firefox driver
	WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);
//Maximize browser window
	driver.manage().window().maximize();
//Go to URL which you want to navigate
	driver.get("http://www.google.com");
//Set  timeout  for 5 seconds so that the page may load properly within that time
	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//close firefox browser
	driver.close();
}

}

EXPLANATION FOR THE CODE:

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Let's see one more example.

Firefox Profile Example 2

How to Create Firefox Profile in Selenium WebDriver 

import java.io.File;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.ProfilesIni;

public class FirefoxProfile2{
public static void main(String[] args) {

// Create object for FirefoxProfile
	FirefoxProfilemyprofile=newFirefoxProfile (newFile("\c:users\AppData\MozillaFirefoxProfile_name.default "));  
// Initialize Firefox driver    
	WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);
//Maximize browser window       
	driver.manage().window().maximize();
//Go to URL      
	driver.get("http://www.google.com");
//Set  timeout      
	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
//close firefox browser  
	driver.close();
    }

Explanation for the code:

Below is the explanation of code line by line.

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