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Run selenium with cache on centos/linux

I'm able to run selenium on non GUI centos/linux machine in headless mode.
I have been trying to run it with cache enable by passing below chromeoptions arguments.
chromeOptions.addArguments("user-data-dir=~/.config/google-chrome");
It has started fine and identified elements till login page(which is first page) and couldn't identify any locators after that.
Is it the right approach to run cache enabled selenium run?

It's not that super clear when you mention about executing your tests with cache enabled. However, adding the argument user-data-dir is the canonical way to use a specific Chrome Profile.
You can find a couple of detailed discussions in:
How to open a Chrome Profile through Python
How to use Chrome Profile in Selenium Webdriver Python 3

Adding those options helps me to prevent crashes and errors on a linux remote machine
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments(
"--disable-gpu",
"--headless",
"--window-size=1920,1200",
"--ignore-certificate-errors",
"--disable-extensions",
"--no-sandbox",
"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
"--hide-scrollbars",
"--allow-running-insecure-content",
"--disable-infobars",
"--ignore-certificate-errors");
Webdriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

When i run selenium webdriver code Firefox webdriver not starting through given webaddress

When i tried to start on Firefox web driver its not starting its showing firefox default page
WebDriver dr = new FirefoxDriver();
dr.get("https://www.google.co.in/");
dr.manage().window().maximize();
its not starting its showing firefox default page
Below i attach output image screenshot
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/43.0.4/firstrun/learnmore/

Firefox is one of the most compatible browsers with selemium, and at the same time, is one of the least compatible.
I say this because if you do not have the correct version of the selenium library to go with the version of firefox you are running, or vice-versa, it will always fail.
I would start by attempting to switch to a different version of Firefox. Selenium version 2.48.0 supports Firefox versions 24-41, so if your firefox version does not fit within that range, it is more than likely the problem.

I faced the same issue. The solution to this problem is to update the selenium version. When the page u mentioned i.e https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/43.0.4/firstrun/learnmore/ opens on firefox launch go to Options -> Addons -> Extensions. You will be able to see the Error there. I got "Forefox Webdriver could not be loaded and is disabled".
This was on Firefox 43 with selenium 2.44. Updating to selenium 2.51 rectified the issue.

Sorry, I cannot comment yet but I would like to help. I got the similar issue when I used selenium webdriver integrated in my python script. The problem was with credentials (particularly with the SSL protocols while declaring a new webdriver object). The code I used looked as the following:
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path = "/opt/local/bin/phantomjs", service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'])
As you can see I use a key that ignores ssl errors. This solved my issue, so I am not sure what platform you use to write the code but hope you can find the similar call for the object.
I found the way how people handle untrusted certificates here. Particularly, for FireFox:
//It creates firefox profile
FirefoxProfile profile=new FirefoxProfile();
// This will set the true value
profile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);
// This will open firefox browser using above created profile
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("pass the url as per your requirement");
Hope it helps you!
Best.
-Petr.

Try this.. This will resolve the issue..
FirefoxProfile fpi = new FirefoxProfile();
fpi.setPreference("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "ignore");
fpi.setPreference("startup.homepage_welcome_url.additional", "about:blank");
wd = new FirefoxDriver(fpi);
wd.get("http://www.google.com");
if you want to over-ride the properties of firefox, then,
1.first to find the list of browser properties, type "about:config" in the address url
2.use, setPreference method to set/assign the values..

How to Make Firefox Driver Same as if Firefox Manually Opened

I've noticed that opening Firefox with a profile using Selenium Webdriver has many differences from opening Firefox manually with the same exact profile. The home page does not load in the Selenium Webdriver driver, non-boolean settings in about:config can't be modified ... to name a couple differences. Is there a way to get Selenium Webdriver to open Firefox drivers to be exactly the same as if you opened Firefox manually?
EDIT: Here is my current code for sanity check purposes ...
File profileDirectory = new File("C:\\Users\\[UserName]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles\\cox74xm7.default");
FirefoxProfile ffprofile = new FirefoxProfile(profileDirectory);
WebDriver ffdriver = new FirefoxDriver(ffprofile);

You need to instantiate FirefoxProfile and pass it to the WebDriver constructor:
File profileDirectory = new File(path);
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(profileDirectory);
WebDriver webDriver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
where path is a path to your existing profile.

FirefoxDriver never launches the browser directly using a profile, even if passed in via the constructor using a FirefoxProfile object. A copy of the profile is always made by the driver. The reason for this is that the driver has to account for the use case of a user using the driver to execute multiple instances of Firefox using the same profile. Using the actual profile in situ would make this problematic for obvious reasons. When you pass an existing profile into the driver constructor, it should be copying the entire profile over into the temp directory, and using it as appropriate. Further note, however, that there are some profile settings that must be set with certain settings in order for the driver to function properly.

Can't test a remote HTML/CSS/JS/Java website with Cucumber + Selenium Webdriver + Chrome + Capybara

I'm trying to test with Cucumber + Selenium + Capybara a remote HTML/CSS/JS website which uses a Java .
The website works fine on the Chrome browser, but when I launch my test, the Chrome browser is launched on the website, but the Java applet is not loaded at all.
Looks like the Chrome browser environment launched by Webdriver does not load any third party chrome plugins like Java.
Is there any way to circumvent this ?
Thanks in advance, best regards
Geoffroy

You can load a custom profile with the following code:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--user-data-dir=/path/to/profile/directory"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
See the selenium chrome documentation: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver

You can maybe try Selenium Remote Control instead of Webdriver. I haven't personally tried Selenium RC with third party tools, but it could an option to try while you're looking for alternatives.

How to perform Basic Authentication for FirefoxDriver, ChromeDriver and IEdriver in Selenium WebDriver?

I am using the Selenium-Firefox-driver and Selenium-Chrome-Driver version 2.0a5 (Web Driver API), and I am trying to test a web app that has BASIC authentication (there is a popup that come up to authenticate the user when I hit whatever page, the popup is not part of the HTML).
Now, I need to a strategy to authenticate the user in Firefox, Chrome and IE (I'm going to import the IE Driver soon).
I was reading in few articles that I can set a Firefox profile for instance..something like:
FirefoxProfile ffProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
ffProfile.setPreference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffProfile);
driver.get("http://username:password#hostname");
but it doesn't seem to work for me. Does anyone have a working solution for those browsers?

I got it to work with Firefox webdriver by the following:
profile.SetPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "google.com");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://user:pwd#google.com");

True, BASIC HTTP authentication is not currently supported but I got it working now for FF and for Chrome.
The code I wrote in the questions works for those drivers. I just tried using FF3.6 as Firefox default browser (installed in Firefox folder) instead of FF4 (not supported yet). For IE, i may try to disable the authentication through Windows Registry.
This page http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=34 may help.

For more portability, this can be handled by stub API and using Alert.
Example Java code (sample):
import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.security.Credentials;
public void authenticateUsing(Credentials credentials) {
private final Alert alert;
alert.authenticateUsing(credentials);
}
See also: auth_tests.py
Or by sending keys manually like:
SendKeys("user");
SendKeys("{TAB}");
SendKeys("password");
SendKeys("~"); // Enter
See also the following feature request: #453 Portable BASIC Auth at GitHub
Related:
How to send Basic Authentication headers in Selenium? at QA SE

Add this New Firefox Profile on your code
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("myProjectProfile"); //replace "myProjectProfile" with your profile"
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);
Firefox configuration settings
This works fine without prompting any authentication when you do the following settings..
Type "about:config" on your FF url
Now type "Proxy" in the search field
Make sure "signon.autologin.proxy" is set "true" (By default
it is "false")
Load Default/Custom Chrome Profile to run tests using Selenium
WebDriver
Download chromedriver.exe
Extract the chromedriver_win_26.0.1383.0.zip folder and locate .exe file to C:/ folder
Add this Script on your JAVA code
DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/chromedriver.exe");
capability.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("–disable-extensions"));
capability.setCapability("chrome.binary", "C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default");
driver = new ChromeDriver(capability);
Note: IE doesn't need profile setup to run tests because they run on Server user while Firefox and Chrome works with binary.

If you want to enable the http auth in Internet explorer, you have to edit the registry and add this (create keys if they are not present):
in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE, create a DWORD iexplore.exe with a value of 0
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE, create a DWORD iexplore.exe with a value of 0
Close and reopen Internet explorer
If you have a x64 IE, the path is a bit different :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

There is a solution for performing authentication with Selenium 1.x by manually setting the HTTP headers at http://mogotest.com/blog/2010/06/23/how-to-perform-basic-auth-in-selenium but I don't think this is transferable to Selenium 2, as you don't have access to the headers.
According to the information here 'Basic Authentication support for Selenium 2' was added in Selenium 2 Beta 2 but looking through the source code I can only see it implemented as a way of securing Remote Selenium Servers against anonymous access.
So I think the answer is that BASIC HTTP authentication is not currently supported.

I was not able to use the basic authentication with Selenium 2 and Chrome (Due a bug with Chrome), so I created an extension for Chrome that sends the basic authentication credentials automatically (See https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/basic-authentication-auto/dgpgkkfheijbcgjklcbnokoleebmeokn).

Multipass extension of Firefox made automation engineers life easy. Through this, we can handle the basic authentication pop-up in any browser using any programing language. PFB the steps:
Open the Firefox browser and download the plug-in
-> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multipass/
Now go to the below location to get the XPI file that is the 'multipass' executable file for firefox
-> C:\Users\Your user name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\oleovwxr.extensionUser\extensions
Copy the file 'multipass#gilles.crettenand.info.xpi' from the above directory and past it to your project directory inside any folder of the resource package.
Now use the below code snippet to configure the Firefox driver.
public WebDriver config() {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "Path to geco driver");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "firefox");
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, "WINDOWS");
capabilities.setCapability("acceptSslCerts", true);
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
//Give the multipass path
profile.addExtension(new File("c:/your project name/src/main/resources/multipass#gilles.crettenand.info.xpi"));
FirefoxOptions firefoxOptions = new FirefoxOptions();
firefoxOptions.setProfile(profile);
firefoxOptions.merge(capabilities);
return new FirefoxDriver(firefoxOptions);
}
Now the main challenge is to get the UUID of the downloaded multipass extension as whenever we run it changes. So we are taking every time when run.
public void setup() throws InterruptedException {
WebDriver driver = config();
driver.get("about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox");
Thread.sleep(4000);
String uuid = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[#title='MultiPass for HTTP basic authentication']/parent::li/section/dl/div/dt[contains(text(),'UUID')]/parent::div/dd")).getText();
System.out.println("My Url:::" + "moz-extension://" + uuid + "/popin.html");
driver.get("moz-extension://" + uuid + "/popin.html");
//change below URL with your URL and username and password
driver.findElement(By.id("url")).sendKeys("http://mywebsite.com");
driver.findElement(By.id("username")).sendKeys("site user name");
driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("site password");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[.='Add']")).click();
//Now change below URL with your url, note:: the domain should math with above multipass url
driver.get("http://mywebsite.com/homeLogin.html");
}
I have tested with the below selenium version selenium-java 4.1.1 and selenium-server 3.141.59.