Do Not Want the Images to Load and CSS to Render on Firefox in Selenium Webdriver - Python

Do not want the Images to load and CSS to render on Firefox in Selenium WebDriver - Python

I have figured out a way to prevent Firefox from loading CSS, images and Flash.

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile

def disableImages(self):
    ## get the Firefox profile object
    firefoxProfile = FirefoxProfile()
    ## Disable CSS
    firefoxProfile.set_preference('permissions.default.stylesheet', 2)
    ## Disable images
    firefoxProfile.set_preference('permissions.default.image', 2)
    ## Disable Flash
    firefoxProfile.set_preference('dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so',
                                  'false')
    ## Set the modified profile while creating the browser object 
    self.browserHandle = webdriver.Firefox(firefoxProfile)

Thanks again @Simon and @ernie for your suggestions.

Disable images in Selenium Python

UPDATE: The answer might not work any longer since permissions.default.image became a frozen setting and cannot be changed. Please try with quickjava extension (link to the answer).

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You need to pass firefox_profile instance to the webdriver constructor:

from selenium import webdriver

firefox_profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
firefox_profile.set_preference('permissions.default.stylesheet', 2)
firefox_profile.set_preference('permissions.default.image', 2)
firefox_profile.set_preference('dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so', 'false')

driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=firefox_profile)
driver.get('http://www.stackoverflow.com/')

driver.close()

And this is how it would be displayed:

Can't turn off images in Selenium / Firefox

From what I understand, this problem is related to the following Firefox issues:

• Remove "Load images automatically" checkbox from Prefs
• Get rid of options that kill our product

That means that permissions.default.image is frozen, cannot be changed and does nothing.

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Alternatives:

• use Image Block extension
• switch to Chrome (Disable images in Selenium ChromeDriver)

How to prevent css and img download in selenium

If you check phantomjs API, an option can be passed as:
--load-images=[true|false] load all inlined images (default is true). Also accepted: [yes|no].

However, you cannot block CSS download AFAIK.

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