Hi i am guruprasad working on selenium - vba to automate a download of a xls report using firefox i tried to setpreference but still it is asking my firefox open file dialog while saving the file following are my details: firefox versio. Browserdownloadmanagershowwhenstarting selenium. When you use firefox to download a zip or pdf file in selenium webdriver automation test scripts, you may find a download dialog popup which you can not handle always when you download a pdf use chrome browser, you may find the pdf is opened in browser tab instead of being downloaded in this article, we will tell you how to resolve such issues by example.
browser.download.manager.showwhenstarting selenium
Exception selenium common exceptions webdriverexception (msg = none, screen = none, stacktrace = none) so connection is refused here means that selenium is unable to establish the connecting which you wanted to establish through : self driver = webdriver firefox (profile, log_path = logfile). Originally reported on google code with id 7174 what steps will reproduce the problem? 1. define the parameters of download firefox not open window 2. trying to download an image 3. try to download a txt what is the expected output? what.... Selenium [3.0.1] r [3.3.2 (2016-10-31)] i hope you will be able to port this to python. just try to replicate the configurations in firefox makefirefoxprofile . reference for further understanding:-how to download files using selenium. firefox profile settings in selenium.
