How to Work with Firefox Profile with Selenium WebDriver

Create Firefox Profile with Profile Manager:

Close all open instance of Firefox Browser( use file->Exit Option)

go to Run and type - firefox.exe -p

Create a New Profile with profile manager.

Open the Relevant Profile with WebDriver:

Before calling FirefoxDriver Constructor, we have to perform following steps-
 Create an object of ProfilesIni Class

ProfilesIni in = new ProfilesIni();

Create an object of Firefox profile

FirefoxProfile profile

Call a method getAllProfiles that is exist in ProfilesIni Class, which will return Firefox Profiles

profile = in.getProfile("Provide name of Firefox Profile you want to interact with");

Now simply Create object of Webdriver with FirefoxDriver Class Constructor

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

Open Internet Explorer and Chrome Browser Using Selenium Webdriver

To Open Internet Explorer Browser with Seelnium WebDriver, we have to perform following steps:

1:  Create a new instance of WebDriver Interface, WebDriver driver;

2: Download IEDriverServer from SeleniumHQ.

3:  System.setProperty( "webdriver.ie.driver", "path of IE server.exe");
/*
    In Case of InternetExplorer,we need to set path for IE server exe file with setProperty method. If you don't set this property you will get an Exception  stating- "The path to the driver executable must be set"
*/

4:  driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

5:  driver.get("http://www.google.com");

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Virtual Box Set Up in Windows OS

We can Run Linux/Unix in our Windows System using Virtual box configuration in our Windows machine.
Here are the steps about how we can download Virtual Box:

                                 Download Virtual Box:

• Go to the url https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads for Virtual box download page.
• Under the Virtual box binaries Heading,
• There will be list of Virtual box for different OS with latest version.
• Click on the link- Virtual box for windows OS.

                              Download Linux/Unix Flavor(Ubuntu in this case):

• Go to the url: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
• Choose appropriate version and option for 32/64 bit and download the .iso file.

                               Installing Virtual Box:

• Run the .exe of Virtual Box
• Complete Installation.

                               Creating a Virtual Drive and RAM for New OS(Ubuntu):

• Open Virtual Box.
• Virtual Box Manager window will open.
• Click on New icon from the navigation.
• Create Virtual machine window will open, Provide a Name for your virtual OS and select type of OS(Linux)
• From version drop down select the appropriate flavor(Ubuntu) and click on Next.Remember if you have 64 bit system then choose Ubuntu 64 option from the version dropdown.
• Now it will ask for RAM size for this virtual OS, Give an appropriate size and click Next.
• Select option for Create new virtual hard drive and Click Create.
• Select VDI(VirtualBox Disk Image) option for hard driver type and click Next.
• Select Dynamically allocated option and click Next.
• Give hard drive name, Allocate size for hard driver and click on Create

                               Attach .iso file to Virtual Box to Get Started:

• Go to VirtualBox Manager.
• Virtual OS will appear in left side and will be default to Powered Off.
• Click on Start icon from the navigation.
• Select Start up disk window will get opened.
• Select the .iso file we download for ubuntu and click on Start
• If everything works fine, you will get a window opened for you newly Created OS.