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I want to launch Firefox headlessly through Selenium, but I can't seem to find a way to do so and keep my preferences at the same time.

from selenium import webdriver;
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox;

cProfile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile();
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions();
dwnd_path = os.getcwd();

options.add_preference('browser.download.folderList', '2');
options.add_preference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', 'false');
options.add_preference('browser.download.dir', 'dwnd_path');
options.add_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'application/octet-stream,application/vnd.ms-excel');

Running this, I will get this error: 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 17, in <module>
    options.add_preference('browser.download.folderList', '2');
AttributeError: 'Options' object has no attribute 'add_preference'

Any ideas?

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This error message...

AttributeError: 'Options' object has no attribute 'add_preference'

...implies that an instance of Options doesn't supports the attribute add_preference.

add_preference is supported by an instance of FirefoxProfile() only.

You can find a detailed discussion to use add_preference with an instance of FirefoxProfile() in Python: Unable to download with selenium in webpage

So your effective code block will be:

from selenium import webdriver;
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

cProfile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile();
dwnd_path = os.getcwd();
cProfile.add_preference('browser.download.folderList', '2');
cProfile.add_preference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', 'false');
cProfile.add_preference('browser.download.dir', 'dwnd_path');
cProfile.add_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'application/octet-stream,application/vnd.ms-excel');
options = Options()
options.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=cProfile, firefox_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\path\to\geckodriver.exe')

Reference

You can find a detailed discussion on how to use the headless argument through an instance of Options() class in How to make firefox headless programatically in Selenium with python?

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