I'm not sure I understand your use case as far as needing to download an exe, but if you create a common data directory, what you need might be possible:
Check out user-data-dir option here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/capabilities On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 5:06:46 PM UTC-5, Ricardo RodriguezsSalinas wrote: > > Hi > I'm using ruby 2.2.4-p230 and Watir WebDriver on Windows 7 > > I got noticed that when execute my Ruby script in a Chrome WebSite always > the "Remember logins for sites" is disabled even when the default profile > is not. > All this do not allow me to complete my script because my script must > download and execute a .exe automatically. > > I´m suspecting that the ruby interpreter or the ChromeDriver, is executed > with a user with less security privileges. > > Can someone know something about it, to solve this issue? > After some hours, surfing on the web > > I did with 2 option: > *** ON FIREFOX *** > Option 1 > myprofile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new > myprofile['dom.disable_open_during_load'] = false > myprofile['browser.download.downloadDir'] = > 'C:\\Any_path_differente_download' > myprofile['signon.rememberSignons'] = true > > $b = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox, :profile => myprofile) > > Option 2 > $b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => 'mycustomProfile' > > **** ON CHROME **** > Option 1 > prefs = { > :download => { > :prompt_for_download => false, > :default_directory =>"c:/Any_path_differente_download/" > } > } > switches = %w(--ignore-certificate-errors --disable-popup-blocking > --disable-translate --disable-internal-flash) > $b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :prefs => prefs, :switches => switches > > Option 2 > $b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :profile => 'default' > > Any of them doesn't work > -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
