Selenium, how to start Firefox with addons?

Question

I want to load the Firefox Addon RequestPolicy. This is how i tried it:

rp = open(wd + "/requestpolicy.xpi")
firefoxProfile = FirefoxProfile()
firefoxProfile.add_extension(rp)

self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefoxProfile)

self.usr = user.User(self.driver, username, password, world)
self.usr.login()

No error, according to the Docs it should work, but it doesn't, it still starts without the addon.

Next thing i've tried is calling it this way:

self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(browser_profile=firefoxProfile)

Output:

TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'browser_profile'

But this is an aspect of python i dont know much about. I got that idea because the source looks that way.

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '11 at 19:09

I don't have enough Stackoverflow rep to leave a comment on your question, and unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question, but for what it's worth you need to call webdriver.Firefox() with firefox_profile, not browser_profile, as you have done.

See also: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/trunk/py/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py#33

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '20 at 17:15

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It took me a few hours to find a solution.

All you need to do is download your extension as .xip file.

And then add this line to your code:

driver.install_addon('/Users/someuser/app/extension.xpi', temporary=True)

Replace "/Users/someuser/app/extension.xpi" with path to your extension .xip file.

answered Jun 06 '20 at 17:15

Arthur Stepanov

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this method does not exist in C# API - Profile.AddExtension does not work either ... – Andre Jun 04 '21 at 17:28
yes, because we are talking about Python :) – Arthur Stepanov Jun 05 '21 at 14:43

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '17 at 01:28

what I did and worked was:

profile=webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.add_extension("/home/.../.mozilla/firefox/zrdb9ki8.default/extensions/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi") # for adblockplus

profile.set_preference("extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion", "2.8.2")
Fox = webdriver.Firefox(profile)
Fox.get(website_Url) #https://.....

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 03 '14 at 13:53

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Additionally you should not open the xpi file directly. Instead try to just give the address:

firefoxProfile.add_extension(wd + "/requestpolicy.xpi")

answered Sep 03 '14 at 13:53

Jens Humrich

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Selenium, how to start Firefox with addons?

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