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When I open firefox it has Flash installed in it but when I open it through selenium That version of firefox has not Flash in it. How to enable flash in selenium . This is the test code I am working with : 

firefoxProfile = FirefoxProfile()
firefoxProfile.set_preference('dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so','true')
b = webdriver.Firefox(firefoxProfile, executable_path=r"C:\\Program Files\geckodriver-v0.16.1-win64\geckodriver.exe")
b.get("http://www.python.org")
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  • There are two ways to do that, 1. Create a profile manually with flash add-on like Adobe, etc. Then load it with selenium driver. 2. Download flash plugin installer and add while launch the browser. Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 17:13
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    @Murthi Thankyou for the help I tired first one and googled a lot. I am able to open firefox with flash. but it is disabled. How can I Activate in code. So that firefox lunch with Flash with status "Always activate" Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 18:25

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Try adding the following to your current code:

firefoxProfile.set_preference("plugin.state.flash", 2)

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