As the documentation states, you can call webdriver.FirefoxProfile() with the optional argument of profile_directory to point to the directory of a specific profile you want the browser to use. I noticed it was taking a long time to run this command, so when I looked into the code, it looked like it was copying the specified profile Problem is, it takes an extremely long time for the profile to copy (something like >30 minutes, didn't have the patience to wait for it to finish.)
I'm using a hybrid of userscripts and selenium to do some automation for me, so to setup a new profile every single time I want to test out my code would be burdensome.
Is the only way to change this behaviour to edit the firefox_profile.py itself (if so, what would be the best way to go about it?)?
As per the current implementation of GeckoDriver with Firefox using the FirefoxProfile() works as follows :
If case of initiating a Browsing Session through a new Firefox Profile as follows :
from selenium import webdriver
myprofile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=myprofile, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
driver.quit()
A new rust_mozprofile gets created on the run as follows :
1521446301607 mozrunner::runner INFO Running command: "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" "-marionette" "-profile" "C:\\Users\\ATECHM~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rust_mozprofile.xFayqKkZrOB8"
Of-coarse on a successful closure (i.e. successful invocation of driver.quit()) the temporary rust_mozprofile.xFayqKkZrOB8 gets deleted/destroyed completely.
Again in case of initiating a Browsing Session through an existing Firefox Profile() as follows :
from selenium import webdriver
myprofile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile(r'C:\Users\AtechM_03\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\moskcpdq.SeleniumTest')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=myprofile, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
driver.quit()
Similarly a new rust_mozprofile gets created on the run as follows :
1521447102321 mozrunner::runner INFO Running command: "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" "-marionette" "-profile" "C:\\Users\\ATECHM~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rust_mozprofile.2oSwrQwQoby9"
Similarly in this case as well on a successful closure (i.e. successful invocation of driver.quit()) the temporary rust_mozprofile.2oSwrQwQoby9 gets deleted/destroyed completely.
FirefoxProfile() to scoop out a new rust_mozprofile.Perhaps as per your question timespan for profile to copy (something like >30 minutes) is a pure overhead. So it won't be possible to use a Firefox Profile without making a copy of rust_mozprofile.
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