Support firefox

[ysmood]

Before they solve this, it's really tricky to support firefox and chrome at the same time for a statically typed language like Golang or Java:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661390

[ysmood]

We can use interface for all sessionID which will make the code very ugly.

[ysmood]

Also, firefox headless mode seems doesn't work well with docker yet. It will crash immediately:

$ docker run --rm -it --init -p 9333:9333 alpine sh
$ apk add firefox --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community
$ firefox --headless --remote-debugging-port 9333
*** You are running in headless mode.
firefox: unable to start remote agent: unavailable
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Segmentation fault

If we run it without --remote-debugging-port, it won't crash, but how can we connect to it then?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1662678

[ysmood]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661390 is resolved, now the code below works fine:

/Applications/Firefox\ Nightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --remote-debugging-port 9222

func main() {
	u, err := launcher.GetWebSocketDebuggerURL("ws://localhost:9222")
	utils.E(err)

	browser := rod.New().ControlURL(u).MustConnect()

	page := browser.MustPage("")

	proto.PageNavigate{URL: "https://google.com"}.Call(page)

	log.Println(page.MustEval(`1 + 1`).Raw)
}

[ysmood]

This code doesn't work because they don't have Page.stopLoading yet.

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/go-rod/rod"
	"github.com/go-rod/rod/lib/launcher"
	"github.com/go-rod/rod/lib/utils"
)

func main() {
	u, err := launcher.GetWebSocketDebuggerURL("ws://localhost:9222")
	utils.E(err)

	browser := rod.New().ControlURL(u).MustConnect()

	browser.MustPage("https://google.com")
}

I raised an issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664515

support firefox and tor browser which based on tor

[NuLL3rr0r]

I am wondering whether this feature is being worked on or not. I cannot use chrome because chrome encrypts cookies, which means I cannot move my profile dirs to another computer without hassle. I use Firefox profiles with a bunch of bash scripts and keep them under Git LFS for managing multiple accounts. Then I use git pull/push and sync my profile data across multiple computers. Now, I want to migrate the same profiles to something more automated like Rod or Playwright-go, but I want to keep my cookies and sessions intact. It seems Playwright-go supports Firefox. But, Rod seems a better fit with support for stealth mode out of the box.

[ysmood]

@NuLL3rr0r Rod has API to dump/recover the entire browser cookies for chrome, I think I don't have a problem with this.

[NuLL3rr0r]

@ysmood thank you for the quick response. The thing is I want to still be able to use my browser profiles through my scripts on various computers. If Rod won't support Firefox, I have to see if I could achieve this in an easy way. I'm not sure exporting/importing on various computers and then transferring the data is as easy as my current git workflow.

One question though, after I posted here, I found the compatibility page and it says:

Supported browsers
Rod should work with any browser that supports DevTools Protocol.

• Microsoft Edge is supported.
• Firefox is supporting this protocol.
• Safari doesn't have any plan to support it yet.
• IE won't support it.

Does that mean Firefox is working at the moment?

[ysmood]

Does that mean Firefox is working at the moment?

@NuLL3rr0r Yes, but slow.

[NuLL3rr0r]

Nice! Then I suppose it should be possible to export the cookies from Firefox Profiles using Rod and import them to Chrome. Is it possible?

Also, I was not able to find any samples for importing/exporting cookies here.

[ysmood]

@NuLL3rr0r the readme of rod says "the unit tests and issues are also important doc"

[NuLL3rr0r]

Thank you! I'll take a look.