Selenium: How to disable image loading with firefox and python?

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I have read similar questions and one was supposed to be the answer, but when I tried it, it only gave a partial solution. I refer to this question: Disable images in Selenium Python

My problem is that I tried the solution and some of the images do not appear, but images that arrive from:

<img href="www.xxx.png">

Are being loaded. Is there a way to tell firefox/selenium not to get it? If not, is there a way to discard it from the dom element that I get back, via:

self._browser.get(url)
content=self._browser.page_source

for example by doing some kind of find replace on the dom tree? The browser configuration is the same browser from the previous question:

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

**Update**:

I kept on digging and what I learned is that if I inspect the text document that the selenium/firefox combo did I see that, it didn't bring the images and kept them as links. But when I did:

self._browser.save_screenshot("info.png")

I got a 24 mega file with all the img links loaded.
Can anyone explain to me this matter?
Thanks!

Andrew · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-10 00:31:49Z

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You can disable images using the following code:

firefox_profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
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)

if you need to block some specific url... hm... I think you need to add string:

127.0.0.1 www.someSpecificUrl.com

to the hosts file before test start and delete it after test finish.

edited Feb 10, 2017 at 0:31

answered Jul 25, 2015 at 12:52

Andrew

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mrtipale Over a year ago

Does it work? I think, it needs False instead of string "false". It should be boolean. Pls advice.

Nick Woodhams Over a year ago

Works for me. dropbox.com/s/o9wlmycti3yjg99/…

unkn0wnx Over a year ago

@mrtipale, yes, it needs to be boolean.

Andrew Over a year ago

It depends to language that you are use. In some languages it is bool, in some - string.

Benjamin Loison · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-21 20:44:55Z

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In the latest Firefox versions permissions.default.image can't be changed. To disable the images, either switch to ChromeDriver or use alternative extentions as suggested here.

edited Jun 21, 2023 at 20:44

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answered Feb 20, 2020 at 14:27

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