Setting user agent on Firefox and using seleniumAddress at the same time does not work

[fbarbat]

Hi,

I want to set a specific user agent using Firefox. If I use directConnect on protractor.conf.js, it works:

var firefox = require('selenium-webdriver/firefox');
var firefoxProfile = new firefox.Profile();
firefoxProfile.setPreference("general.useragent.override", 'monitoring1152936086');

exports.config = {
    directConnect: true,

    capabilities: {
        'browserName': 'firefox',
        'firefox_profile': firefoxProfile
    },
    ...
}

However, if I use seleniumAddress instead of directConnect it does not work. For example:

var firefox = require('selenium-webdriver/firefox');
var firefoxProfile = new firefox.Profile();
firefoxProfile.setPreference("general.useragent.override", 'monitoring1152936086');

exports.config = {
    seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',

    capabilities: {
        'browserName': 'firefox',
        'firefox_profile': firefoxProfile
    },
    ...
}

As a side note, I cannot use chrome since I am trying to use Firefox as a workaround to the not so stable combination of protractor and selenium-docker with chrome (SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium#87).

Any ideas? Thanks!

[NickTomlin]

Hi there!

Your question is better suited for StackOverflow or Gitter. Please ask a question there with the 'protractor' tag or post in the Gitter Channel to get help.

From the the getting help section of the README:

Please ask usage and debugging questions on StackOverflow (use the "protractor" tag) or in the Angular discussion group. (Please do not ask support questions here on Github.)

I haven't personally encountered this issue; my gut is that it's to do with selenium. Let's get to the bottom of it on one of the mediums above. Thanks!

[fbarbat]

Ok, I just find it strange that one way works and the other not. I have checked protractor source and it looks like different code is used to get a web driver (if I had it right):

• on directConnect it uses (protractor/lib/driverProviders/direct.js):

driver = new firefox.Driver(this.config_.capabilities);

• seleniumAddress it uses (protractor/lib/driverProviders/driverProvider.js):

 var newDriver = new webdriver.Builder().
      usingServer(this.config_.seleniumAddress).
      withCapabilities(this.config_.capabilities).
      build();

But let's see on StackOverflow. I posted it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33545039/setting-user-agent-on-firefox-with-protractor-and-using-seleniumaddress-does-not

[sjelin]

I answered the SO question to the best of my understanding. Thanks for reposting there!