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Support for Firefox WebExtensions

See original GitHub issue

Mozilla introduced new WebExtensions API, which works already in Firefox Nightly. The old CPOWs extensions will be deprecated.

Trying to load an extension to Firefox Nightly, Seenium tries to find install.rdf, which doesn’t exist anymore.

    var firefox = require('selenium-webdriver/firefox');
    var binary = new firefox.Binary('/Applications/FirefoxNightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox');
    var profile = new firefox.Profile();
    profile.addExtension('./build/firefox');
    var options = new firefox.Options()
      .setProfile(profile)
      .setBinary(binary);
    this.driver = new firefox.Driver(options);

Any plans to support the new extension format for firefox?

Issue Analytics

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

alexristichcommented, Dec 20, 2016

@cmolocznik I’m new to Selenium, so I’m not too familiar with the project structure. Where would your workaround be placed in order to be functional?

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jleybacommented, Apr 24, 2017

Fixed by 2f1df982c0905e3594588cdcc902cd2d33aa66c7

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