[🐛 Bug]: Firefox ProfilesIni.readProfiles() does not handle files written in UTF-16 (?)

[numeralnathan]

What happened?

Firefox ProfilesIni.readProfiles() does not handle files written in UTF-16, I think. The following line ignores the encoding bytes at the front of the file.

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/d40b1a8504003abc71f7d5f2baedc99f51f8f65a/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/firefox/ProfilesIni.java#L60

How can we reproduce the issue?

The following code returns `null` even though the profile is correct.


   new ProfilesIni().
      getProfile("nathan");

### Relevant log output

```shell
Not applicable

Operating System

Windows 11

Selenium version

Java 3.141.59

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Firefox 97.0.2

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

GeckDriver 0.30.0 win64

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

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[numeralnathan]

Here is the profiles.ini file that causes the problem. I had to rename it to .txt because of Github.

profiles.txt

I am not sure downloading this file will preserve the character set encoding. The HTTP header content-type does not have a character set specified when downloading the file.

Notepad says this file is UTF-8 encoded. However, ProfileIni.readProfiles() is getting Strings with a space between each character. So, I suspect that the file is UTF-16.

[diemol]

@numeralnathan apologies for the late reply. Just to confirm, is this issue happening in the latest Selenium release? (4.4.0).

[numeralnathan]

I don't know. I worked around the issue. I gave my profiles.txt file and the bug should be easy to reproduce.

[diemol]

Right, but you were mentioning Selenium 3.x, and code has changed a lot between versions. Hence my question.

[asolntsev]

@numeralnathan It seems utf16 encoding is lost when I download your profile.txt from github. Could you please upload a ZIP files containing your profiles.ini?

[diemol]

I will close this but happy to reopen in case more information is provided.

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