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Created attachment 14861 [details]
from https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend/1f24f2429471925fbb52324293acbd7599aa5ec2/tests%2Fbrowser%2Ffeatures%2Fsupport

From time to time it is useful to override default settings for Firefox in a browser test.  The way to do this is to point Firefox at a custom Profile when the browser starts.  This custom profile takes the form of a local SQLite file that Firefox will read upon starting.  

In particular, it could be useful to allow access to the browser's geolocation information without having to manually answer the browser query. 

Jeff Hall and I spiked this in early 2014 but never got it completely working.  Our spike code was in the MobileFrontend env.rb file: 

  if user_agent =="default" && !ENV["NEARBY_FIREFOX"]
    browser = Watir::Browser.new browser_label
  else
    if browser_label == :firefox && !ENV["NEARBY_FIREFOX"]
      profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
      profile["general.useragent.override"] = user_agent
      browser = Watir::Browser.new browser_label, :profile => profile
    else
      if ENV["NEARBY_FIREFOX"]
        permissions_file = "./features/support/permissions.sqlite"
        if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/
          firefox_executable = "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox"
        elsif RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/
          firefox_executable = '/usr/bin/firefox'
        else
          puts 'Cannot identify local OS, so cannot locate Firefox executable!'
        end
        profile_path = ("/tmp/NearbyProfile/")
        Dir.mkdir(profile_path) unless File.exists?(profile_path)
        system(firefox_executable + " -CreateProfile 'NearbyProfile " + profile_path + "'")
        system("cp " + permissions_file + " " + profile_path)
        browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => 'NearbyProfile'
      else
        raise "Changing user agent is currently supported only for Firefox!"
      end
    end
  end