I am trying to launch chrome with an URL, the browser launches and it does nothing after that.
I am seeing the below error after 1 minute:
Unable to open browser with url: 'https://www.google.com' (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.39.562718 (9a2698cba08cf5a471a29d30c8b3e12becabb0e9),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
My configuration:
Chrome : 66
ChromeBrowser : 2.39.56
P.S everything works fine in Firefox
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A common cause for Chrome to crash during startup is running Chrome as root user (administrator) on Linux. While it is possible to work around this issue by passing --no-sandbox flag when creating your WebDriver session, such a configuration is unsupported and highly discouraged. You need to configure your environment to run Chrome as a regular user instead.
This error message...
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.
Your code trials and the versioning information of all the binaries would have given us some hint about what's going wrong.
However as per Add --disable-dev-shm-usage to default launch flags seems adding the argument --disable-dev-shm-usage will temporary solve the issue.
If you desire to initiate/span a new Chrome Browser session you can use the following solution:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("start-maximized"); // open Browser in maximized mode
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); // Bypass OS security model
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get("https://google.com");
disable-dev-shm-usage
As per base_switches.cc disable-dev-shm-usage seems to be valid only on Linux OS:
#if defined(OS_LINUX) && !defined(OS_CHROMEOS)
// The /dev/shm partition is too small in certain VM environments, causing
// Chrome to fail or crash (see http://crbug.com/715363). Use this flag to
// work-around this issue (a temporary directory will always be used to create
// anonymous shared memory files).
const char kDisableDevShmUsage[] = "disable-dev-shm-usage";
#endif
In the discussion Add an option to use /tmp instead of /dev/shm David mentions:
I think it would depend on how are /dev/shm and /tmp mounted.
If they are both mounted as tmpfs I'm assuming there won't be any difference.
if for some reason /tmp is not mapped as tmpfs (and I think is mapped as tmpfs by default by systemd), chrome shared memory management always maps files into memory when creating an anonymous shared files, so even in that case shouldn't be much difference. I guess you could force telemetry tests with the flag enabled and see how it goes.
As for why not use by default, it was a pushed back by the shared memory team, I guess it makes sense it should be useing /dev/shm for shared memory by default.
Ultimately all this should be moving to use memfd_create, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon, since it will require refactoring Chrome memory management significantly.
Reference
You can find a couple of detailed discussions in:
unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error while executing Selenium UI test cases on ubuntu
Tests fail immediately with unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist when running Selenium grid through systemd
Outro
Here is the link to the Sandbox story.
I started seeing this problem on Monday 2018-06-04. Our tests run each weekday. It appears that the only thing that changed was the google-chrome version (which had been updated to current) JVM and Selenium were recent versions on Linux box ( Java 1.8.0_151, selenium 3.12.0, google-chrome 67.0.3396.62, and xvfb-run).
Specifically adding the arguments "--no-sandbox" and "--disable-dev-shm-usage" stopped the error.
I'll look into these issues to find more info about the effect, and other questions as in what triggered google-chrome to update.
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
...
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
We were having the same issues on our jenkins slaves (linux machine) and tried all the options above.
The only thing helped is setting the argument
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
But when we investigated further, noticed that XVFB screen doesn't started property and thats causing this error. After we fix XVFB screen, it resolved the issue.
I had the same problem in python. The above helped. Here is what I used in python -
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/your_chrome_driver_dir/chromedriver',chrome_options=chrome_options)
I was facing the same issue recently and after some trial and error it worked for me as well.
MUST BE ON TOP:
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); //has to be the very first option
BaseSeleniumTests.java
public abstract class BaseSeleniumTests {
private static final String CHROMEDRIVER_EXE = "chromedriver.exe";
private static final String IEDRIVER_EXE = "IEDriverServer.exe";
private static final String FFDRIVER_EXE = "geckodriver.exe";
protected WebDriver driver;
#Before
public void setUp() {
loadChromeDriver();
}
#After
public void tearDown() {
if (driver != null) {
driver.close();
driver.quit();
}
}
private void loadChromeDriver() {
ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
String filePath = classLoader.getResource(CHROMEDRIVER_EXE).getFile();
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
ChromeDriverService service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()
.usingDriverExecutable(new File(filePath))
.build();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); // Bypass OS security model, MUST BE THE VERY FIRST OPTION
options.addArguments("--headless");
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
options.addArguments("start-maximized"); // open Browser in maximized mode
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.merge(capabilities);
this.driver = new ChromeDriver(service, options);
}
}
GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests.java
#RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
#SpringBootTest
public class GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests extends BaseSeleniumTests {
#Test
public void getSearchPage() {
this.driver.get("https://www.google.com");
WebElement element = this.driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
assertNotNull(element);
}
}
pom.xml
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
In my case in the following environment:
Windows 10
Python 3.7.5
Google Chrome version 80 and corresponding ChromeDriver in the path C:\Windows
selenium 3.141.0
I needed to add the arguments --no-sandbox and --remote-debugging-port=9222 to the ChromeOptions object and run the code as administrator user by lunching the Powershell/cmd as administrator.
Here is the related piece of code:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-infobars')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--remote-debugging-port=9222')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
I ran into this problem on Ubuntu 20 with Python Selenium after first downloading the chromedriver separately and then using sudo apt install chromium-browser Even though they were the same version this kept happening.
My fix was to use the provided chrome driver that came with the repo package located at
/snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path='/snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver')
Update:
I am able to get through the issue and now I am able to access the chrome with desired url.
Results of trying the provided solutions:
I tried all the settings as provided above but I was unable to resolve the issue
Explanation regarding the issue:
As per my observation DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist is caused when chrome is unable to find its reference in scoped_dirXXXXX folder.
Steps taken to solve the issue
I have killed all the chrome processes and chrome driver processes.
Added the below code to invoke the chrome
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","pathto\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get(url);
Using the above steps I was able to resolve the issue.
Thanks for your answers.
In my case it was problem with CI Agent account on ubuntu server, I solved this using custom --user-data-dir
chrome_options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=~/.config/google-chrome')
My account used by CI Agent didn't have necessary permissions, what was interesting everything was working on root account
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
chrome_options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
chrome_options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=~/.config/google-chrome')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
url = 'https://www.google.com'
driver.get(url)
get_url = driver.current_url
print(get_url)
There is lot of possible reasons for the RESPONSE InitSession ERROR unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error message (as we can see from the number of answers for this question). So let's dive deeper to explain what exactly this error message means.
According to chromedriver source code the message is created in ParseDevToolsActivePortFile method. This method is called from the loop after launching chrome process.
In the loop the driver check if the chrome process is still running and if the ParseDevToolsActivePortFile file was already created by chrome. There is a hardcoded 60s timeout for this loop.
I see two possible reasons for this message:
Chrome is really slow during startup - for example due to lack of system resources - mainly CPU or memory. In this case it can happen that sometimes chrome manage to start in time limit and sometimes not.
There is another issue which prevents chrome to start - missing or broken dependency, wrong configuration etc. In such case this error message is not really helpful and you should find another log message which explain the true reason of the failure.
It happens when chromedriver fails to figure out what debugging port chrome is using.
One possible cause is an open defect with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\UserDataDir
But in my last case, it was some other unidentified cause.
Fortunately setting port number manually worked:
final String[] args = { "--remote-debugging-port=9222" };
options.addArguments(args);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
As stated in this other answer:
This error message... implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.
Among the possible causes, I would like to mention the fact that, in case you are running an headless Chromium via Xvfb, you might need to export the DISPLAY variable: in my case, I had in place (as recommended) the --disable-dev-shm-usage and --no-sandbox options, everything was running fine, but in a new installation running the latest (at the time of writing) Ubuntu 18.04 this error started to occurr, and the only possible fix was to execute an export DISPLAY=":20" (having previously started Xvfb with Xvfb :20&).
You can get this error simply for passing bad arguments to Chrome. For example, if I pass "headless" as an arg to the C# ChromeDriver, it fires up great. If I make a mistake and use the wrong syntax, "--headless", I get the DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error.
I was stuck on this for a very long time and finally fixed it by adding this an additional option:
options.addArguments("--crash-dumps-dir=/tmp")
I know it's an old question and it already has a lot of answers. However, I ran into this issue, bumped into this thread and none of the proposed solutions helped. After spending a few days(!) on it I finally found a solution:
My problem was that I was using the selenium/standalone-chrome image on a MacBook with M1 chip. After switching to seleniarm/standalone-chromium everything finally started to work.
I had the same issue, but in my case chrome previously was installed in user temp folder, after that was reinstalled to Program files. So any of solution provided here was not help me. But if provide path to chrome.exe all works:
chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe");
I hope this helps someone =)
In my case it happened when I've tried to use my default user profile:
...
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=D:\\MyHomeDirectory\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data");
...
This triggered chrome to reuse processes already running in background, in such a way, that process started by chromedriver.exe was simply ended.
Resolution: kill all chrome.exe processes running in background.
update capabilities in conf.js as
exports.config = {
seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
specs: ['todo-spec.js'],
capabilities: {
browserName: 'chrome',
chromeOptions: {
args: ['--disable-gpu', '--no-sandbox', '--disable-extensions', '--disable-dev-shm-usage']
}
},
};
Old question but a similar issue nearly drove me to insanity so sharing my solution. None of the other suggestions fixed my issue.
When I updated my Docker image Chrome installation from an old version to Chrome 86, I got this error. My setup was not identical but we were instantiating Chrome through a selenium webdriver.
The solution was to pass the options as goog:chromeOptions hash instead of chromeOptions hash. I truly don't know if this was a Selenium, Chrome, Chromedriver, or some other update, but maybe some poor soul will find solace in this answer in the future.
For Ubuntu 20 it did help me to use my systems chromium driver instead of the downloaded one:
# chromium which
/snap/bin/chromium
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver',
options=chrome_options)
And for the downloaded webdriver looks like it needs the remote debug port --remote-debugging-port=9222 to be set, as in one of the answers (by Soheil Pourbafrani):
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222")
driver = webdriver.Chrome('<path_to>/chromedriver', options=chrome_options)
Date 9/16/2021
Everything works fine running chrome with selenium locally with python inside the docker hosted ubuntu container. When attempting to run from Jenkins the error above is returned WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort
Environment:
-Ubuntu21.04 inside a docker container with RDP access.
-chromedriver for chrome version: 93
Solution:
Inside the python file that starts the browser I had to set the DISPLAY environment variable using the following lines:
import os
os.environ['DISPLAY'] = ':10.0'
#DISPLAY_VAR = os.environ.get('DISPLAY')
#print("DISPLAY_VAR:", DISPLAY_VAR)
In my case, I was trying to create a runnable jar on Windows OS with chrome browser and want to run the same on headless mode in unix box with CentOs on it. And I was pointing my binary to a driver that I have downloaded and packaged with my suite. For me, this issue continue to occur irrespective of adding the below:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--headless");
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.args", "--disable-logging");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.silentOutput", "true");
options.setBinary("/pointing/downloaded/driver/path/in/automationsuite");
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("window-size=1024,768"); // Bypass OS security model
options.addArguments("--log-level=3"); // set log level
options.addArguments("--silent");//
options.setCapability("chrome.verbose", false); //disable logging
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
Solution that I've tried and worked for me is, download the chrome and its tools on the host VM/Unix box, install and point the binary to this in the automation suite and bingo! It works :)
Download command:
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
Install command:
sudo yum install -y ./google-chrome-stable_current_*.rpm
Update suite with below binary path of google-chrome:
options.setBinary("/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome");
And.. it works!
I also faced this issue while integrating with jenkins server, I was used the root user for jenkin job, the issue was fixed when I changed the user to other user. I am not sure why this error occurs for the root user.
Google Chrome Version 71.0
ChromeDriver Version 2.45
CentOS7 Version 1.153
I run selenium tests with Jenkins running on an Ubuntu 18 LTS linux. I had this error until I added the argument 'headless' like this (and some other arguments):
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("headless"); // headless -> no browser window. needed for jenkins
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); // Bypass OS security model
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get("www.google.com");
Had the same issue. I am running the selenium script on Google cloud VM.
options.addArguments("--headless");
The above line resolved my issue. I removed the other optional arguments. I think the rest lines of code mentioned in other answers did not have any effect on resolving the issue on the cloud VM.
in my case, when i changed the google-chrome and chromedriver version, the error was fixed :)
#google-chrome version
[root#localhost ~]# /usr/bin/google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 83.0.4103.106
#chromedriver version
[root#localhost ~]# /usr/local/bin/chromedriver -v
ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.14 (be04594a2b8411758b860104bc0a1033417178be-refs/branch-heads/4103#{#119})
ps: selenium verison was 3.9.1
No solution worked for my. But here is a workaround:
maxcounter=5
for counter in range(maxcounter):
try:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options,
service_log_path=logfile,
service_args=["--verbose", "--log-path=%s" % logfile])
break
except WebDriverException as e:
print("RETRYING INITIALIZATION OF WEBDRIVER! Error: %s" % str(e))
time.sleep(10)
if counter==maxcounter-1:
raise WebDriverException("Maximum number of selenium-firefox-webdriver-retries exceeded.")
It seems there are many possible causes for this error. In our case, the error happened because we had the following two lines in code:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverPath);
chromeOptions.setBinary(chromeDriverPath);
It's solved by removing the second line.
I ran into same issue, i am using UBUNTU, PYTHON and OPERA browser. in my case the problem was originated because i had an outdated version of operadriver.
Solution:
1. Make sure you install latest opera browser version ( do not use opera beta or opera developer), for that go to the official opera site and download from there the latest opera_stable version.
Install latest opera driver (if you already have an opera driver install, you have to remove it first use sudo rm ...)
wget https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver/releases/download/v.80.0.3987.100/operadriver_linux64.zip
unzip operadriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv operadriver /usr/bin/operadriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/operadriver
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/operadriver
in my case latest was 80.0.3987 as you can see
Additionally i also installed chromedriver (but since i did it before testing, i do not know of this is needed) in order to install chromedriver, follow the steps on previous step :v
Enjoy and thank me!
Sample selenium code
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Opera()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.quit()
I came across the same problem, in my case there are two different common user userA and userB in Linux system.
userA first run the selinium programe which start chrome browswer with ChromeDriver successfully, when it came to userB, the DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error occur.
I tried the --remote-debugging-port=9222 option, but it lead to a new exception:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
The I ran google-chome directory and see the following error:
mkdir /tmp/Crashpad/new: Permission denied (13)
The I search the problem and got this:
https://johncylee.github.io/2022/05/14/chrome-headless-%E6%A8%A1%E5%BC%8F%E4%B8%8B-devtoolsactiveport-file-doesn-t-exist-%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C/
chrome_options.add_argument(f"--crash-dumps-dir={os.path.expanduser('~/tmp/Crashpad')}")
Thanks to #johncylee.
I am using Selenium and trying to initialize the Chrome driver to start without a start up window.
ChromeOptions options= new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--no-startup-window");
//I tried this line also: options.addArguments("--silent-launch");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(Capabilities);
I am getting the following exception:
Unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally
Can anybody help me?
You need to download the binary first from selenium website, download binary according to your specifications:-
http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.19/
Now set below code so selenium script will know the path of your binary
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./src\\lib\\chromedriver.exe");
So the code should be like this:-
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./src\\lib\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options= new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--no-startup-window");
//I tried this line also: options.addArguments("--silent-launch");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
Hope it will help you :)
I think the flag you are looking for is --headless
This feature has just been implemented in chrome 57
--no-startup-window is used for hosting background apps, see this page and as mentioned in the other answers doesn't launch a window which is why the webdriver can't talk to it.
--headless does launch a window, but doesn't make it visible.
I am using Selenium and trying to initialize the Chrome driver to start without a start up window.
According to Selenium GitHub (Strange error, chromedriver with --no-startup-window), Selenium requires JavaScript and Chrome window to work:
Much like --disable-javascript, the chromedriver will not work if you use --no-startup-window.
It needs to launch a window to establish the connection with the AutomationProxy.
I am trying to run my tests using Selenium web driver + TestNG + Java, everything runs fine with Firefox, but when I tried to extend it to different browsers like IE and Chrome, I have included code for it, but it doesn't seem to work. I am using some excel files to pass input while automating it. Thanks in advance
Required Configuration with IE
1.The IEDriverServer exectuable must be downloaded and placed in your PATH.
2.On IE 7 or higher on Windows Vista or Windows 7, you must set the Protected Mode settings for each zone to be the same value. The value can be on or off, as long as it is the same for every zone. To set the Protected Mode settings, choose "Internet Options..." from the Tools menu, and click on the Security tab. For each zone, there will be a check box at the bottom of the tab labeled "Enable Protected Mode".
3.The browser zoom level must be set to 100% so that the native mouse events can be set to the correct coordinates.
Check if java plugin is installed in your browser.
For more info go to http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver
You cannot work with chrome/IE same as Firefox. In order to work with that you need chrome/IE driver, which is an executive file. The code for invoking the chrome and IE is a little different than Firefox.
For chrome you can take help from here
For IE you can take help from here
example for invoking driver
if(BrowserName.equalsIgnoreCase("Firefox")){
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
}else if(BrowserName.equalsIgnoreCase("Chrome")){
String ChromeDriverPath= "D:\\ChromeDriver\\chromedriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", ChromeDriverPath);
driver=new ChromeDriver();
}else if(BrowserName.equalsIgnoreCase("IE")){
IEDriverPath32bit= "D:\\IEDriver\\IEDriverServer.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", IEDriverPath32bit);
What's the best way to activate Firebug in Firefox when running Selenium 2?
Edit: Ok, I realize "best" is open to interpretation, but the profile-based solution really used to be a pain with selenium 1.0. So any alternative is considered better until proved worse ;)
You can create your profile in code and dynamically add required add-ons. Let's assume that you saved Firebug XPI into the C:\FF_Profile folder as firebug.xpi (go to Firebug download page, right-click on the "Add To Firefox" and save as C:\FF_Profile\firebug.xpi).
In code:
final String firebugPath = "C:\\FF_Profile\\firebug.xpi";
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.addExtension(new File(firebugPath));
// Add more if needed
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
This is described in WebDriver FAQ
Do you mean having firebug installed in the browser instance that webdriver launches? If so, you can pass an extension when you instantiate the driver, but the eaisest way is to create a firefox profile with firebug installed and then use the following code before you instantiate the driver:
System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.profile", "NAME_OF_FIREFOX_PROFILE_WITH_FIREBUG");
Just reference your profile by name. Example in Ruby:
#driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox, :profile => "default"
Then, load Firefox normally, and add your desired extensions. They will now show up in your Selenium test runs.
Apparently the way the firefox-profile options are consumed has changed in Selenium WebDriver.
The old commandline (Selenium RC):
java -jar selenium-2.28.0.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate ~/.mozilla/firefox/3knu5vz0.selenium
Updated for WebDriver: (note that it wants the profile name rather than the directory)
java -jar selenium-2.28.0.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.profile=selenium
modify your firefox location to something like
C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\sgmqi7hy.default
launch your firefox from selenium / webdriver
make all your required settings
close and restart firefox browser from selenium / webdriver
that's it, it solves your problem !!
I found a profiles.ini in ~/.mozialla/firefox/. In there was a profile named default, which I specified a like the following and then firefox was opened in test just like I opened it regularly (with all plugins etc).
java -jar selenium.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.profile=default
If none of the above option works. Then try this.
1) Open terminal and type below command (close all existing firefox
sessions first)
firefox -p
2) This will open an option to create a new Firefox profile.
3) Create a profile lets say "SELENIUM".
4) Once the firefox is open straight away install firebug or any
other plugins extension that you want. once done close the window.
5) Now load this new profile via selenium , use below java
statements.
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile ffprofile = profile.getProfile("SELENIUM");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffprofile);
6) Done. Enjoy.
I have observed that the firebug is adding to browser and it is disabled by default and not enabled ,when i add firebug to firefox at runtime by using webdriver. So to make it enable we may need to add the below line to profile.
profile.setEnableNativeEvents(true);
Assuming that, Firebug is installed. Your objective is to run Firebug. Firebug can be run/execute by pressing F12 key. So Firebug can be run by following command of Selenium WebDriver with Java:
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.sendKeys(Keys.F12).build().perform();