Setting environment variable for CHROME_BIN does not work

Question

I\'m trying to use Karma for testing my js scripts. In the doc it says I should set the environment variable for CHROME_BIN:

I\'ve set it to

Answer 1

I've found that installing Canary and changing browsers = ['Chrome']; to browsers = ['ChromeCanary']; is nicer.

Answer 2

For Chromium in ubuntu 14.04 edit test/karma.conf.js and change

browsers = ['Chrome'];

for

browsers = ['chromium-browser'];

Answer 3

In Powershell you can run the following command:

$Env:CHROME_BIN = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

You need to replace the stuff within the double quotes with your local path.

Or in cmd.exe

SET CHROME_BIN = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

This is all you would need to get it going.

Answer 4

Was facing the same issue and I solved it by editing the karma.conf.js and karma-e2e.conf.js files which is under config directory.

Change:

browsers = ['Chrome'];

TO

browsers = ['Your_System_Path_where_chrome_installed/chrome.exe'];

in my case it was > C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe

and then add C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe path to environment variables

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or in cmd

SET CHROME_BIN = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

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Additional: Settings for other browsers can be seen here.

And about why chrome one is not working I guess they(Karma) have configured their chrome path from some earlier versions of chrome.

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Update: For AngularJS tutorial Followers:

• You still might face problems (as I faced) while running karma test runner on some tutorial steps and to resolve this: just add these "Angular Scenario Dependencies" in both the "...conf.js" files, like this:

files = [
  ANGULAR_SCENARIO,
  ANGULAR_SCENARIO_ADAPTER,
    ....
    ....  // keep rest of the lines as it is
    ....
];

Answer 5

(In Linux) I thought it was related to CHROME_BIN but in the end for me it had nothing to do with that variable and i removed it. I had to lookup the karma-chrome-launcher npm plugin on github and follow the instructions for adding no security to my karma config.

Answer 6

I have solved the same issue by setting CHROME_BIN in my environment properties like this:

c:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe

There have to be no double quotes (") around the property value and all backslash signs (\) have to be replaced by slash signs (/)