How to speedup selenium scripts in firefox

Some time our selenium scripts will take more time to execute in firefox and also timeout error will come in this case. so we need to configure our firefox profile. Here i have mentioned some steps for configuring firefox profile. after this configuration we can avoid unwanted pop-ups.

Suggested settings for your Selenium Profile

1. From “View\Toolbars” tab, uncheck “Bookmarks Toolbar”
2. Right click from toolbar and click “Customize”
3. Remove “Google search” by dragging it to the “Customize Toolbar” window
4. From the “Customize Toolbar” window, click “Use Small Icons” check box then hit “Done”
5. Click “Tools\Options” then set the following:
a. “Main” tab
- set Home Page to “about:blank”
- uncheck “Show the Downloads..” option
b. “Tabs” tab
- Select “a new window” for new pages
- Uncheck all warning options
c. “Content” tab
- uncheck “Block pop-up” windows option
d. “Privacy” tab
- uncheck all “History” options
e. “Security” tab
- uncheck all “Security” options
- click “Settings” and uncheck all warning options
f. “Advanced” tab
- Uncheck “autoscrolling” option from “General” tab
- uncheck “warn me …” and “Ssearch Engines”option from “Update” tab
6. From “Tools\Add-ons” install the following:
- Firebug: allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript on your application under test
- Selenium IDE: allows you to record, edit, and debug Selenium tests
- ScreenGrab: saves entire webpages as images.
7. From the address bar type “about:config” and add the following by right-click anywhere on the page and selecting “new”
- extensions.update.notifyUser (type=boolean; value=false)
- extensions.newAddons (type=boolean; value=false)

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