Selenium Crashing: Chrome automation extension has crashed

Question

I am using Selenium web drivers, and today, for no apparant reason I started getting an error with the message\"Chrome Automation Extension has crashed. Click this balloon

Answer 1

I resolve my problem when I start Git Bash without admin rights.

Answer 2

I had the same problem, I could resolve it as the following:
1.Don't run Chrome as Admin.
2.Don't run your selenium App as Admin.

Answer 3

For Python this solved my problem use:

from selenium import webdriver

# start the browser
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
# options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
# options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
# options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

print(driver.title)
print(driver.current_url)

#driver.quit() # Uncoment to keep chromedriver open.

Answer 4

I had the same problem. In my case it was related to the Windows account I use to log in to Windows, which is account in the Administrators group. However, it was not desirable to change the account type.

To solve this I created a new local account under the control panel (of type 'power user') and used that account to run Chrome and it worked fine.

Answer 5

Ok, so you are serious about the admin part as a solution to the problem?

Why not follow the advices from Google? http://chromedriver.chromium.org/help/chrome-doesn-t-start

Passing '--no-sandbox' flag when creating your WebDriver session. Special test environments sometimes cause Chrome to crash when the sandbox is enabled.

So I ended up doing as they adviced and can run things as admin. Guess it's a way forward for me now and hopefully it's a valid solution for others too.

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("--no-sandbox");
browser = new ChromeDriver(options);

Answer 6

We faced the same problem. For work around we are using Firefox now. You just need to add Selenium.Firefox.WebDriver by jbaranda NuGet package