Launching Firefox browser using Selenium

To launch the Firefox using Selenium, you do not need to download and run the Firefox driver separately.  Below line of code will start the Firefox from standard location.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);

Using different Firefox profile

ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("XYZ");
caps.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, profile);

Or you can also create new profile on the fly and pass that capability as shown in below code.

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("plugin.state.flash", 1);
caps.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, profile);

Using specific Firefox binary
Sometimes, we need to execute the tests on specific version of Firefox. We can download portable firefox from https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%20Portable%20Ed./
and run that binary as shown in below code.

File pathToBinary = new File("c:\\FirefoxPortable_p.exe");
FirefoxBinary ffBinary = new FirefoxBinary(pathToBinary);
FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffBinary,firefoxProfile);

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