selenium web driver does not open firefox with custom prefrences

Question

Trying to open firefox with already installed addons using selenium 2 but always opens with default firefox profile having predefined preferences

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

The above lines of code initiates firefox with default profile. How to make it initiate with user specified preferences?

Answer 1

You can launch it with a custom profile using something like:

profile = FirefoxProfile("path.to.profile")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)