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Disable flash in saucelabs/selenium webdriver?

I am trying to use saucelabs to automate taking screenshots of several sites to make sure that changing code doesn't break things. I'm programming using webdriver for python and need to disable flash on chrome, firefox and IE. I've tried to find the answers online but none of them seem to be for disabling flash, only interacting with flash objects.

Solution

  • The below code will work for chrome, it disables the flash and sets the default download directory to a different folder.

    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options   
def _disable_flash_caps(self):
      chromeOptions = Options()
      # prefs = {"download.default_directory" : "C:\\temp", "profile.managed_default_content_settings.plugins": 2}
      prefs = {"download.default_directory" : "C:\\temp", "plugins.plugins_disabled": ["Adobe Flash Player"] }
      chromeOptions.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs)
      return chromeOptions.to_capabilities()

    call it with:

    if 'browserName' in cap and cap['browserName'] == 'chrome':
   webdriver.Remote.__init__(self, sel_url, self._disable_flash_caps())