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Selenium unable to connect to ChromeDriver 75 on Mac

We are upgrading a previously-working Selenium/Java/Chrome test configuration, to newer versions:
ChromeDriver 2.35 -> 75.0.3770.90
Selenium Java 3.14 -> 3.141.59
macOS 10.14.5 (unchanged)
Java 11.0.3 (unchanged)
Chrome 75.0.3770.100 (unchanged)
However, when attempting to run a Selenium test, we see:
java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:28719
The full stack/log:
Starting ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.90 (a6dcaf7e3ec6f70a194cc25e8149475c6590e025-refs/branch-heads/3770#{#1003}) on port 28719
Only local connections are allowed.
Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
Jun 26, 2019 10:45:03 AM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
...
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:28719
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:17:03'
System info: host: 'Craigs-iMac.local', ip: '192.168.1.131', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.14.5', java.version: '11.0.3'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:92)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:552)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:323)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByTagName(RemoteWebDriver.java:396)
at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByTagName.findElement(By.java:320)
All the resources I've found in this area suggest using --whitelisted-ips='', which did not have an effect, or were related to incompatible Selenium/Chrome/ChromeDriver versions, which I don't think is the issue here.
Update: I can confirm that the driver starts, and is listening on port 28719, but then stops at some point between startup and execution of the actual test. I've found no errors/logging related to the shutdown.
Update 2: I've debugged, and the initial commands sent to the remote driver succeed (setWindowSize()), but this line causes the driver to die silently:
((WebStorage) driver).getLocalStorage().setItem("token", token);

It seems newer versions of the ChromeDriver (Or Selenium? I don't know.) launch Chrome with an initial page sitting at the URL data:.
By adding these system properties prior to instantiating the ChromeDriver:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.logfile", "/Users/craig/chromedriver.log");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.verboseLogging", "true");
I was able to glean the following right before the driver quits:
[1561563455.971][INFO]: [01517094c63c0dd609c06a5622afe6b1] RESPONSE ExecuteScript ERROR <unknown>: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Storage is disabled inside 'data:' URLs.
(Session info: headless chrome=75.0.3770.100)
So by changing this call in my test utility code:
((WebStorage) driver).getLocalStorage().setItem("token", token);
To this:
if (driver.getCurrentUrl().startsWith("data:")) {
// Driver will quit if we try to access localStorage without a page load
driver.get("/");
}
((WebStorage) driver).getLocalStorage().setItem("token", token);
Everything is now fine. https://i.imgur.com/edBQBeJ.gif

Editing:
LocalStorage is available only after launching any website. ie after driver.get
https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/html5/LocalStorage.html

SessionNotCreatedException: session not created exception from unknown error: Runtime.executionContextCreated has invalid 'context' with Chrome driver

Error stack trace (Updated from comments):
Starting ChromeDriver 2.20.353145 (343b531d31eeb933ec778dbcf7081628a1396067) on port 7778 Only local connections are allowed.
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created exception from unknown error: Runtime.executionContextCreated has invalid 'context': {"auxData":{"frameId":"961185F0AA38D24650EF6C797BC32535","isDefault":true,"type":"default"},"id":1,"name":"","origin":"://"}
(Session info: chrome=70.0.3538.102)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.20.353145 (343b531d31eeb933ec778dbcf7081628a1396067),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 1.68 seconds Build info: version: '3.141.5', revision: 'd54ebd709a', time: '2018-11-06T11:58:41'
System info: host: 'LTAH024', ip: '192.168.131.142', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_60'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
I wrote simple program to launching a chrome browser. Please see the below code. I have already set a path in environment variable:
package automationFramework;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class ChromeBrowser {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
WebDriver drive = new ChromeDriver();
drive.get("http://toolsqa.com/selenium-webdriver/running-tests-in-chrome-browser/");
System.out.println("Successfully open tools qa website in Chrome browser");
//Thread.sleep(5000); //To initiate thread , we need to add throws interrupt exception
//Close the driver
//driver.quit();
}
}
Please look into this and help me out. The same thing geckodriver for firefox is working.

This error message...
Starting ChromeDriver 2.20.353145 (343b531d31eeb933ec778dbcf7081628a1396067) on port 7778 Only local connections are allowed.
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created exception from unknown error: Runtime.executionContextCreated has invalid 'context': {"auxData":{"frameId":"961185F0AA38D24650EF6C797BC32535","isDefault":true,"type":"default"},"id":1,"name":"","origin":"://"}
(Session info: chrome=70.0.3538.102)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.20.353145 (343b531d31eeb933ec778dbcf7081628a1396067),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 1.68 seconds Build info: version: '3.141.5', revision: 'd54ebd709a', time: '2018-11-06T11:58:41'
System info: host: 'LTAH024', ip: '192.168.131.142', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_60'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.
You have 3 issues exactly and your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:
You are using chromedriver=2.2.20
Release Notes of chromedriver=2.20 clearly mentions the following :
Supports Chrome v43-48
You are using chrome=70.0
Release Notes of ChromeDriver v2.43 clearly mentions the following :
Supports Chrome v69-71
Your Selenium Client version is the current version of 3.141.5..
Your JDK version is 1.8.0_60 which is pretty ancient.
So there is a clear mismatch between the JDK v8u60 , Selenium Client v3.141.5 , ChromeDriver v2.20 and the Chrome Browser v70.0
Solution
While using Selenium v3.x clients you need to download the latest ChromeDriver from ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome store it anywhere within your system and provide the absolute path of the ChromeDriver through System.setProperty() line as follows:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\chromedriver.exe");
Upgrade JDK to recent levels JDK 8u191.
Upgrade ChromeDriver to current ChromeDriver v2.43 level.
Keep Chrome version between Chrome v69-71 levels. (as per ChromeDriver v2.43 release notes)
Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
(WindowsOS only) Use CCleaner tool to wipe off all the OS chores before and after the execution of your Test Suite.
(LinuxOS only) Free Up and Release the Unused/Cached Memory in Ubuntu/Linux Mint before and after the execution of your Test Suite.
If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
Take a System Reboot.
Execute your #Test.
Always invoke driver.quit() within tearDown(){} method to close & destroy the WebDriver and Web Client instances gracefully.

Download chrome driver, keep it at your local and put the path at System.setProperty try the below code, hope it helps.
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class ChromeBrowser {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "B:\\chromedriver.exe"); //put driver path here
WebDriver drive = new ChromeDriver();
drive.get("http://toolsqa.com/selenium-webdriver/running-tests-in- chrome-browser/");
System.out.println("Successfully open tools qa website in Chrome browser");
drive.quit();
}
}

Their are Three Ways to open The Chrome Browser:
First one:using system.setproperty
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "F:\\New folder\\chromedriver.exe");
Webdriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
Second one : using Chrome Options:
//set path to chromedriver.exe
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);
options.setBinary(new File("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"));
options.addArguments("disable-infobars");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "F:\\New folder\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
Last one : if you are using maven use this
This downloads the latest chrome driver version and starts it. You can use WebDriverManager within using bonigarcia dependency. Add The bonigarcia dependency in your Pom.xml File and start using it via WebdriverManager
https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
driver = new ChromeDriver();
Finally What is Version for your Gecko driver & Firefox?

Unable to start Chrome browser with user profile in Selenium

I am trying to open a Chrome browser window with an existing user profile.
String dir= "/Users/labuser/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome";
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--user-data-dir="+dir);
driver = new ChromeDriver(options); // throws an exception!
I confirmed the user directory path by looking at chrome://version page. (screenshot below)
Due to some reason, this code throws an exception with very less information
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506106 (8a06c39c4582fbfbab6966dbb1c38a9173bfb1a2),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.6 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 60.33 seconds
Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 17:00:58'
System info: host: 'arustagi-wx-3', ip: '10.41.25.35', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.12.6', java.version: '1.8.0_111'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:678)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:249)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:144)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:170)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:159)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:148)
Edit
I am using the following chrome browser, this falls in the supported range of browsers
Version 61.0.3163.100

You are using the latest version of the ChromeDriver
chromedriver=2.33.506106
with Selenium 2.53. You should use the latest release.
Anyway, what is your browser version? Here you can take a look which are the browsers version supported (based on your chromedriver).
EDIT
I tried with:
Selenium 3.5.3
ChromeDriver v2.33
Google Chrome Version 62.0.3202.62 (Official Build) (64-bit)
From chrome://version/, my profile path is
/Volumes/MacintoshSSD/Users/DurdenP/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Trying
String chromeDriver ="pathTo/ChromeDriver/chromedriver";
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriver);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
String dir= "/Volumes/MacintoshSSD/Users/DurdenP/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome";
options.addArguments("user-data-dir="+dir);
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
it works.

Finally got this fixed. I was working on macOS and found out that i needed to quit the browser cleanly.
After closing the browser window, i had to right click on the icon in the dock and press quit. The selenium script would work perfectly fine after this.

How to run selenium tests on chrome if only binary file of chrome is placed in a server location in E drive

I have a situation in my project as below :
My code was executing as expected till the IT admin uninstalled chrome and FF from Jenkins server.
After raising a concern they placed a chrome binary in E drive .( E:\GC Local\GoogleChrome).But Chrome is not installed anywhere
I am facing issues to resolve this.
Do anyone guide here ?
Code I used :
if ("chrome".equals(browser))
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
System.getProperty("user.dir")
+ "\\src\\test\\resources\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
}

Will it work for you ?
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("E:\\GC Local\\GoogleChrome");

I understand that in homepath \app data chrome should be installed by default to run chrome tests. In my case , there is no chrome istalled in homepath-app but in E drive

When I used the below code :
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("E:\\GCLocal\\GoogleChrome\\GoogleChromePortable.exe");
// System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\Browsers\\chromedriver.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
System.getProperty("user.dir")
+ "\\src\\test\\resources\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
I am getting getting the following :
T E S T S
Running TestSuite
Browser :chrome
Starting ChromeDriver 2.29.461591 (62ebf098771772160f391d75e589dc567915b233) on port 45594
Only local connections are allowed.
Error in initializing the Test .Details :-
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.29.461591 (62ebf098771772160f391d75e589dc567915b233),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 62.74 seconds
Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b1534ae328c771e0856c93e187490ca824', time: '2016-03-15 10:43:46'
System info: host: 'WHIS2002', ip: '10.192.129.112', os.name: 'Windows Server 2008 R2', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_77'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
./TestReport.html

The above approach is correct. My issue was that portable-chrome binary refused to open due to some issues in server .code was fine.
This happened because of portable chrome binary performance issues which I solved like this :
Google Chrome Portable may run slowly from some flash drives. You can speed this up by copying GoogleChromePortable.ini from the GoogleChromePortable\Other\Source directory to the GoogleChromePortable directory and editing it to set RunLocally=true. If you do so, be sure to allow Google Chrome Portable time to copy your profile back after shutting it down. Of course, there are privacy implications to copying your personal data locally to a PC not under your control.
Thanks

UnreachableBrowserException trying to launch in Selenium Webdriver using IEDriver

I have a set of automations that work fantastically in Firefox and Chrome, and I'd like to launch an instance of IEDriver as well.
I've set up IEDriver as per Selenium's Google Code wiki, with the correct path (if I change the path I get a different exception, so it's definitely correct). But for some reason it still can't launch, and just times out.
The code to launch it (the last line throws the exception):
File ieDriver = new File("C:/Users/whatever/path/IEDriverServer.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", ieDriver.getAbsolutePath());
WebDriver ie = new InternetExplorerDriver();
And the exception is:
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.33.0', revision: '4ecaf82108b2a6cc6f006aae81961236eba93358', time: '2013-05-22 12:00:17'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_21'
Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:548)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:216)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:201)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:184)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:174)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:143)
at uk.co.know.kiteTest.WebDriverManager.<init>(WebDriverManager.java:52)
at uk.co.know.kiteTest.RunAutomations.main(RunAutomations.java:13)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start.
Build info: version: '2.33.0', revision: '4ecaf82108b2a6cc6f006aae81961236eba93358', time: '2013-05-22 12:00:17'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_21'
Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:165)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:62)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:527)
... 7 more
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for [http://localhost:38622/status] to be available after 20014 ms
at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:104)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:163)
... 9 more
Caused by: com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedTimeoutException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:143)
at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:79)
... 10 more

I was hitting this same error and then found this question. In my case, it turned out that I had the 64 bit version of the IEDriver.exe on my system, but I was on a 32 bit windows platform. So this error was indicating that the OS failed to execute the driver program. I tried to run the driver directly in a command prompt to see that infact the 32 bit OS was not recognizing the 64 bit driver exe as an executable program.
Getting the correct 32 bit IEDriver.exe solved my problem.

Selenium WebDriver with Chrome, issue:
(org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException) solution
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.35.0', revision: '8df0c6b', time: '2013-08-12 15:43:19'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_40'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
If you are getting above problem, go to the chromedriver.exe location and try to execute the exe. If you are able to execute the exe then below code will work. Otherwise it will be a permission issue to the chromedriver folder. Change the folder location or provide the permission to the folder and double click on chromedriver.exe.
Solution:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/Driver/chromedriver.exe");
System.out.println(System.getProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver"));
WebDriver driver3 = new ChromeDriver();

Go to hosts (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc)
and make sure that you have this line correctly:
127.0.0.1 localhost

Faced similar exception while trying to execute Selenium script over BrowserStack for mobile devices. And often found this exception being thrown.
Eventually realized being virtual machines involved, emulators were taking time to boot up and thus causing UnreachableBrowserException.
Wrote below code to handle this, by setting Number of times to retry(RetryCount) and made multiple attempts(retryAttempt) to check Remote WebDriver's availability.
while(retryAttempt<=retryCount){
try{
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps);
return driver;
}
catch(UnreachableBrowserException e){
Thread.sleep(10000);
if(retryAttempt>retryCount){
logger.error("Remote Web Driver cannot be reached at this moment");
}
}
}

It seems to me you use improper driver initilization.
Try piece of code from my project:
File file = new File("C:/Selenium/iexploredriver.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

I had the same issue. This fixed it for me:
DesiredCapabilities capabilitiesIE = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
capabilitiesIE.setCapability(
InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilitiesIE);

If you are getting the this exception just download new chrome driver and provide the in your project. That's it. Worked for me :)