How can I set a default profile for the Firefox driver in Selenium Webdriver 3?

Question

I can't set a default profile for Firefox in Selenium Webdriver 3 because there is no such constructor in the FirefoxDriver class.

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.ProfilesIni;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class SeleniumStartTest {
    @Test
    public void seleniumFirefox() {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Users\\FirefoxDriver\\geckodriver.exe");
        ProfilesIni profileIni = new ProfilesIni();
        FirefoxProfile profile = profileIni.getProfile("default");
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    }
}

Compile error in Java code: Java Code

Maven pom.xml dependencies: Selenium 3.14.0

Firefox version: Firefox version 62.0.2

Answer 1

As you are using Selenium 3.14.0 as per the FirefoxDriver Class the valid constructors are:

• FirefoxDriver()
• FirefoxDriver(FirefoxOptions options)
• FirefoxDriver(GeckoDriverService service)
• FirefoxDriver(GeckoDriverService service, FirefoxOptions options)
• FirefoxDriver(XpiDriverService service)
• FirefoxDriver(XpiDriverService service, FirefoxOptions options)

So, as per your code attempts the following is not a valid option to invoke FirefoxDriver()

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

Solution

To invoke invoke FirefoxDriver() with the default profile you need to use the setProfile(profile) method to set the FirefoxProfile through an instance of FirefoxOptions() and you can use the following code block:

• Code Block:

  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.ProfilesIni;
  import org.testng.annotations.Test;
  
  public class A_FirefoxProfile {
  
        @Test
        public void seleniumFirefox() {
          System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:/Utility/BrowserDrivers/geckodriver.exe");
          ProfilesIni profileIni = new ProfilesIni();
          FirefoxProfile profile = profileIni.getProfile("default");
          FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
          options.setProfile(profile);
          WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
          driver.get("http://www.google.com");
          System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
        }
  
  }
  

• Console Output:

  [RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 6.14.2
  1537775040906   geckodriver INFO    geckodriver 0.20.1
  1537775040923   geckodriver INFO    Listening on 127.0.0.1:28133
  Sep 24, 2018 1:14:30 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
  INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
  Google
  PASSED: seleniumFirefox
  
  ===============================================
      Default test
      Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
  ===============================================
  
  
  ===============================================
  Default suite
  Total tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
  ===============================================
  

Answer 2

move your setup to @BeforeClass

I'm using this setup, works just fine:

@BeforeClass
public static void setUpClass() {
    FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
    ProfilesIni allProfiles = new ProfilesIni();         
    FirefoxProfile selenium_profile = allProfiles.getProfile("selenium_profile");
    options.setProfile(selenium_profile);
    options.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe");
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Users\\pburgr\\Desktop\\geckodriver-v0.20.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
    driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
    driver.manage().window().maximize();}

just change paths and profile designation.

Answer 3

Essentially you pass the profile folder, not a profile name like ´default´

String profileFolder = "..."; // Location according to firefox profile settings 
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions(); 
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(profileFolder);
options.setProfile(profile);
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);

As already mentionned in comments, the setup takes about 30 seconds.