Is it Firefox or Geckodriver, which creates “rust_mozprofile” directory

Question

Whenever we invoke Firefox, under \'/tmp\' directory rust_mozprofile directories are getting created. As Firefox internally calls Geckodriver we are not sure whether Firefox

Answer 1

A solution is to use driver.quit() this closes all browsers and takes care of the profiles

Another solution is to add a custom profile

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile('specify location to profile .default') 
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)