1231871 - Marionette-back Selenium Python client does not support profiles

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, defect)

Description

[edluzonjr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.86 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I want to use Marionette via Selenium to launch a Firefox with attached Firefox extensions (e.g. Firebug, FirePath).

When Marionette is disabled, Selenium can launch Firefox with the desired extension:
            RemoteWebDriver.__init__(self,
            command_executor=ExtensionConnection("127.0.0.1", self.profile,
            self.binary, timeout),
            desired_capabilities=capabilities,
            keep_alive=True)

However, when Marionette is enabled, Selenium launches a Firefox without a profile, so I have no way to attach extensions:

        if "marionette" in capabilities and capabilities['marionette'] is True:
            # Let's use Marionette! WOOOOHOOOOO!
            if "binary" in capabilities:
                self.binary = capabilities["binary"]
            self.service = Service(executable_path, firefox_binary=self.binary)
            self.service.start()

            RemoteWebDriver.__init__(self,
                command_executor=self.service.service_url,
                desired_capabilities=capabilities,
                keep_alive=True)

Hence, my question - does Marionette supports Firefox Profile?
If it does, any hint on how I can modify the Selenium code above to enable Firefox Profile\Extentions when launching Firefox?

Comment 1

[Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳]

You’re right that it does look like the Marionette specific code path in the Selenium Python client appears not to take the profile into consideration.  Since there is also no way of passing along flags to the binary, this indeed makes it impossible to provide a custom profile.

Comment 2

[Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳]

This should quite likely live as an issue on the Selenium project’s issue tracker, but I suppose it’s useful to keep track of in Bugzilla too.

Comment 3

[David Burns :automatedtester]

landed in https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/commit/3045c00a77b7ef7220ec9a6b318cae0756221a87 and has been released in 0.7.1