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Parachuting into this conversation.  In general there's a big split between App-level settings and Gecko-level settings, and in general Mozilla's Apps (Fennec, Fenix, r-b, etc) don't have a uniform way to manage App-level settings in automation.  I have considered righting harness code to set Android SharedPreferences (which is what :whimboo is ultimately referring to in #c9), but it's very fiddly and requires either support from within Marionette/Gecko or the App or to have `android:debuggable="true"`.

I have had success adding per-App Intent arguments to control these types of things from automation: e.g., https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1525.

For this particular issue, in my `browsertime` harness, I use the "skipstartpane" extra for Fennec and launch with a URL before driving Marionette: see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=EXTRA_SKIP_STARTPANE&redirect=false for the Intent argument.

Parachuting into this conversation.  In general there's a big split between App-level settings and Gecko-level settings, and in general Mozilla's Apps (Fennec, Fenix, r-b, etc) don't have a uniform way to manage App-level settings in automation.  I have considered writing harness code to set Android SharedPreferences (which is what :whimboo is ultimately referring to in #c9), but it's very fiddly and requires either support from within Marionette/Gecko or the App or to have `android:debuggable="true"`.

I have had success adding per-App Intent arguments to control these types of things from automation: e.g., https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1525.

For this particular issue, in my `browsertime` harness, I use the "skipstartpane" extra for Fennec and launch with a URL before driving Marionette: see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=EXTRA_SKIP_STARTPANE&redirect=false for the Intent argument.