Disable styling on Google Search with Selenium FirefoxDriver

Question

The following code disables stylesheets and images on a page loaded with Selenium Firefox webdriver:

from selenium import webdriver

firefox_profile = webdriver.         


        

Answer 1

The google logo come form the css, where the pictures are embedded in the HTML as data (img src="data:image/jpeg;base64, ....) the code disable the loading of remote images not this type of sources

• permissions.default.stylesheet: disable any formatting

• permissions.default.image: disable any image and css background-image

if the image is embedded into the page as base64 encoded is not blocked by these permissions because is part of the HTML code (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme)

to disable more formatting you should add:

• firefox_profile.set_preference("permissions.default.script", 2);
• firefox_profile.set_preference("javascript.enabled", False);