"browser.download.manager.showwhenstarting" is not visible

do you want to download a file without prompt?

Iam able to download file in "Firefox" browser using "Robot" class.

But unable to download using firefox profile as "browser.download.manager.showwhenstarting" is not visible

please answer my question

do you want to download a file without prompt?

Yes. I want to download without prompt window

what is the mime type of your file?

PDF file

p.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/pdf");

use this it should work

[code:lm84onim]package com.soapuitutorial.propertie;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;

public class DownloadWithoutPrompt {
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34271396/how-to-handle-downloading-xlsx-file-in-firefox-using-webdriver-where-window-pop
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

Path p1 = Paths
.get("path/to/.pdf/file");
String x = Files.probeContentType(p1);
System.out.println(x);


FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();

profile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);

profile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",
false);

profile.setPreference("brower.download.dir", "C:\\temp"); // path of
profile.setPreference("browser.download.downloadDir", "c:\\temp");
profile.setPreference("browser.download.defaultFolder", "c:\\temp");

profile.setPreference(
"browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk",
"application/octet-stream,application/vnd.ms-excel,application/csv,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet,text/csv,application/x-msexcel,application/excel,application/x-excel,application/vnd.ms-excel,image/png,image/jpeg,text/html,text/plain,application/msword,application/xml");

profile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",
false);

profile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.alertOnEXEOpen", false);

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
driver.get("http://samplecsvs.s3.amazonaws.com/Sacramentorealestatetransactions.csv");
driver.get("http://qtpselenium.com/test/testdownload.php");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/a[1]")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/a[2]")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/a[3]")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/a[4]")).click();

}

}
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