Firefox binary ignoring some settings in profile

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 2061

Using Mac OSX 10.6, Firefox 5.01, python bindings.
Not sure about selenium python bindings version, can't find it but I downloaded it
this week.

I set up a profile to use a proxy.
    profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", "localhost")
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", 9638)
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.no_proxies_on", "")
    profile.update_preferences()
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)

The call to webdriver.Firefox fails with an error like this:
WebDriverException: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir : /var/folders/CW/CWhi40qkHJaRdfl7JNBS1++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpbs7gZo

The exception is being triggered because _wait_until_connectable is timing out in firefox_binary.

This is happening because the browser's proxy has not been configured right. Using
about:config, the Firefox browser tells me that I've change network.proxy.type and
network.proxy.http_port but not the other 2 necessary settings.

Why is the Firefox binary ignoring the other 2 settings?

Reported by rwillmer on 2011-07-15 16:28:51

[lukeis]

Python bindings v2.1.0 installed from pip

Reported by rwillmer on 2011-07-21 08:07:20

[lukeis]

I think I know what the issue is, I will sort this before the release of 2.2

Reported by david.burns@theautomatedtester.co.uk on 2011-07-22 20:17:11

• Status changed: Accepted
• Labels added: Lang-Python

[lukeis]

Thanks, let me know if I can help with testing the fix before the release.

Reported by rwillmer on 2011-07-23 10:43:22

[lukeis]

i found one part of the issue but this has opened another can of worms. Unfortunately
it won't be this release but there will be another release in a week.

Reported by david.burns@theautomatedtester.co.uk on 2011-07-25 16:37:59

[lukeis]

I think the problem is how it saves profile items that need to be loaded by firefox
as a string.

profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", "localhost") will save the preference
value as localhost.

What worked for me was changing it to:

profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", '"localhost"'), so it saves it as "localhost".

Reported by mikeraytrack on 2011-07-27 00:58:39

[lukeis]

Mikerayt: where did you set the preference of the profile?

Reported by skuli.arnlaugsson on 2011-07-28 15:06:01

[lukeis]

I'm having problems with selenium 2.2 and ff5.01 trying to set
    profile.set_preference('signon.autologin.proxy', "true")

This is a boolean property, not string or integer. I've tried 'true', "true" '"true"',
"'true'", and True but nothing works.

Reported by random35743373 on 2011-07-28 15:22:57

[lukeis]

where did you set the preference of the profile?:

p = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
p.set_preference(...,...)
...

b = webdriver.Firefox(p)

----

to fix "profile.set_preference('signon.autologin.proxy', "true")" try this:
profile.set_preference('signon.autologin.proxy', 1)

Reported by mikeraytrack on 2011-07-28 15:49:25

[lukeis]

I'd already tried that but forgot to mention it.

For another boolean property I tried each of these, one at a time.

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('general.warnOnAboutConfig', '"false"')
profile.set_preference('general.warnOnAboutConfig', "'false'")
profile.set_preference('general.warnOnAboutConfig', 'false')
profile.set_preference('general.warnOnAboutConfig', "false")
profile.set_preference('general.warnOnAboutConfig', False)
profile.set_preference('general.warnOnAboutConfig', 0)
# to the value of a pref that is already set correctly
profile.set_preference('general.warnOnAboutConfig', profile.default_preferences['browser.tabs.warnOnOpen'])

profile.update_preferences()
br = webdriver.Firefox(profile)

Nothing works :(

Reported by random35743373 on 2011-07-28 15:57:48