[🚀 Feature]: Linux Python Firefox restore previous session #8
Description
Feature and motivation
Python script trying to leverage Firefox argument -profile:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument('-profile')
options.add_argument('selenium_firefox_profile')
browser = webdriver.Firefox(options = options)
browser.get('about:support')
browser.quit()Output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<tmp 3>", line 17, in <module>
browser = webdriver.Firefox(options = options)
File "/home/benjamin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 71, in __init__
super().__init__(command_executor=executor, options=options)
File "/home/benjamin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 212, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities)
File "/home/benjamin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 299, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, caps)["value"]
File "/home/benjamin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 354, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/home/benjamin/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 229, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: Failed to set preferences: unknown error
Source: the Stack Overflow answer 76679586
/home/benjamin/selenium_firefox_profile faces the same issue.
Would help Improve_websites_thanks_to_open_source/issues/1019.
Related to #3.
https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/drivers/ does not help.
Usage example
Not read.