Need a way to specify a profile

[Martin]

I have installed both iceweasel and xul-ext-noscript on my computer. Therefore by default Javascript is switched off. My tests, however, need Javascript switched on. Also, I need other changes to the default Iceweasel configuration for some tests, e.g. accepted languages. A solution to this problem could be to specify a profile for testing. I hacked SST this way to achieve this:

class Firefox(selenium.webdriver.Firefox):
    def __init__(self):
        d = os.path.dirname(os.path.expanduser("~") + "/.mozilla/firefox/selenium/")
        if not os.path.exists(d):
            os.makedirs(d)
        fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile(d)
        fp.native_events_enabled = False
        fp.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)
        fp.set_preference("extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6",False)
        fp.set_preference("services.sync.engine.addons",False)
        fp.set_preference("extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled",False)
        fp.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",False)
        fp.set_preference("browser.download.dir", download_dir)
        fp.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/octet-stream")
        fp.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "text/csv")
        super(Firefox, self).__init__(firefox_profile=fp)
        self.implicitly_wait(5) # seconds
        self.set_window_size(1024,1000)

It would be nice to have a clean, non-hacky way to achieve this.

See question https://answers.launchpad.net/selenium-simple-test/+question/197442