ChromeWebDriver - unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed

Question

I\'m trying to test my application on Chrome with ChromeWebDriver but every time I try I get following exception:

   org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:          


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem as above. Turned out I somehow managed to have two chrome.exe installed. One under Program Files and on under user\appdata\local..... I uninstall the one under Program Files and now it works like a charm.

Answer 2

If you are unable to start your browser in selenium. please ensure whether you set chrome browser as defualt? bcz of this also u may face this "Failed to start your browser" ERROR

Answer 3

I was able to resolve this issue on Windows 10 by using the Administrator CMD to run my scripts.

Answer 4

I have also faced the same issue. I did nothing . I have waited for some 15 mins and run my scripts again. It got worked.

Answer 5

  DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "path to chromedriver.exe");
        capability.setBrowserName("chrome");
        capability.setPlatform(PlatformAndEnvironmentSetUp.platformSetUp);

        driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://" + PlatformAndEnvironmentSetUp.hubIP + ":" + PlatformAndEnvironmentSetUp.hubPort + "/wd/hub"), capability);


        this.driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        this.driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        this.driver.manage().window().setSize(new Dimension(1920, 1080));
//page instances init()

        loginPage = PageFactory.initElements(this.driver, LoginPage.class);
        homePage = PageFactory.initElements(this.driver, AdminHomePage.class);

This sample code works OK for me. Just a little note: "chromedriver.exe" I'm placing in the same project folder. That makes the question of path to chromdriver executable easier.

So this line of code looks in this way:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "chromedriver.exe");

Resource to download chromedriver.exe

Hope this helps you.

Answer 6

I fixed this on Windows 10 by setting chromedriver.exe, [yourPythonIDE].exe, and chrome.exe to run with Administrator rights, which can reached via right-clicking the exe file and going to Properties >> Compatibility.