py, ruby: Skipping profile cleaning step. This change proved to be stable enough in Java binding.

Author: barancev

Diff for: py/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def launch_browser(self, profile):
 
         self._start_from_profile_path(self.profile.path)
         self._wait_until_connectable()
- 
+
     def kill(self):
         """Kill the browser.
 
@@ -83,14 +83,10 @@ def _start_from_profile_path(self, path):
 
         if platform.system().lower() == 'linux':
             self._modify_link_library_path()
-        command = [self._start_cmd, "-silent"]
+        command = [self._start_cmd, "-foreground"]
         if self.command_line is not None:
             for cli in self.command_line:
                 command.append(cli)
-
-        Popen(command, stdout=self._log_file, stderr=STDOUT,
-              env=self._firefox_env).communicate()
-        command[1] = '-foreground'
         self.process = Popen(
             command, stdout=self._log_file, stderr=STDOUT,
             env=self._firefox_env)
@@ -141,7 +137,7 @@ def _find_exe_in_registry(self):
 
         if not command:
             return ""
- 
+
         return shlex.split(command)[0]
 
     def _get_firefox_start_cmd(self):
@@ -150,7 +146,7 @@ def _get_firefox_start_cmd(self):
         if platform.system() == "Darwin":
             start_cmd = ("/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin")
         elif platform.system() == "Windows":
-            start_cmd = (self._find_exe_in_registry() or 
+            start_cmd = (self._find_exe_in_registry() or
                 self._default_windows_location())
         elif platform.system() == 'Java' and os._name == 'nt':
             start_cmd = self._default_windows_location()
@@ -161,7 +157,7 @@ def _get_firefox_start_cmd(self):
                     break
             else:
                 # couldn't find firefox on the system path
-                raise RuntimeError("Could not find firefox in your system PATH." + 
+                raise RuntimeError("Could not find firefox in your system PATH." +
                     " Please specify the firefox binary location or install firefox")
         return start_cmd
 
@@ -201,7 +197,7 @@ def _extract_and_check(self, profile, no_focus_so_name, x86, amd64):
         return built_path
 
     def which(self, fname):
-        """Returns the fully qualified path by searching Path of the given 
+        """Returns the fully qualified path by searching Path of the given
         name"""
         for pe in os.environ['PATH'].split(os.pathsep):
             checkname = os.path.join(pe, fname)

Diff for: rb/lib/selenium/webdriver/firefox/launcher.rb

@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ def launch
           socket_lock.locked do
             find_free_port
             create_profile
-            start_silent_and_wait
             start
             connect_until_stable
           end
@@ -81,13 +80,6 @@ def start
           @binary.start_with @profile, @profile_dir, "-foreground"
         end
 
-        def start_silent_and_wait
-          assert_profile
-
-          @binary.start_with @profile, @profile_dir, "-silent"
-          @binary.wait
-        end
-
         def connect_until_stable
           poller = SocketPoller.new(@host, @port, STABLE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT)