Using Selenium webdriver with a custom firefox profile - how to get rid of addins popup

When I use selenium webdriver with a custom firefox profile I get the firefox Add-ons pop up开发者_StackOverflow社区 showing 2 extensions: Firefx WebDriver 2.5.0 and Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 0.9rc2.

How can I get rid of this popup? I looked in the server jar to see if I could find the extensions, no luck. Looked online for the extensions, no luck. When I run the code without using the custom profile there is no popup.

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You need to add an entry called extensions.newAddons to the profile's preferences and set the value to false.

Start firefox with the custom profile

firefox -profile <path to profile directory>

Type about:config in the address bar and press the enter key. Right-click the preference pane to open the context menu and go to New -> Boolean. Enter extensions.newAddons for the preference name. Select false for the new boolean value.

The entry should prevent the new addon window from appearing when you start Firefox with that profile.

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Open Firefox with this profile (with profile manager), go to Firefox preferences, turn off updates - this works for me.