WebDriverManager Causing Mismatch ChromeDriver for Chrome Browser version 116.0.5845.111 - (Selenium version - 3.141.59)

Question

Exception:

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 114
Current browser version is 116.0.5845.111 with binary path  

pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
  <version>3.141.59</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
  <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
  <version>3.7.1</version>
</dependency> 

Code for setting up the ChromeOptions and finally creating the webdriver:

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
options.addArguments("--test-type");
options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
if (setBrowserUI().equals("yes")) {
  options.addArguments("--headless");
}
options.addArguments("Browser.setDownloadBehavior", "allow");
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
base.driver = new ChromeDriver(options); 

Project restriction prevent the upgrade of the Selenium version used. Is there any other way to solve other than updating to Selenium version 4.x ?

Sivas

Refer this answer - https://mcmap.net/q/67697/-response-code-500-message-session-not-created-this-version-of-chromedriver-only-supports-chrome-version-114 – Microscope

I know they asked to upgrade the selenium version to 4.x but here my problem is I can't upgrade the selenium version. Have any solution for it – Sivas

Upgrade webdrivermanager to v5.4.1 and see if it works. – Microscope

still no luck , facing same error – Sivas

Check my answer, try that out. – Microscope

Answer 1

Simple solution will be to upgrade selenium to v4.11.0 as this version's SeleniumManager tool is compatible with chrome version 116.

Since you do not wish to upgrade selenium, download the 116 version of chromedriver and try to set the path of chromedriver.exe manually using System.setProperty. Refer the code below:

public static void main(String[] args) {    
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/<full path>/chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("https://www.google.com");        
    System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
}

Link to download latest chromedriver - https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/

Microscope

Answer 2

From Google Chrome v115 onwards, the chromedriver is now available from the new Chrome for Testing JSON endpoints. See the announcement here: ChromeDriver - Version Selection

Version 3.7.1 of io.github.bonigarcia.WebDriverManager does not cater for that new endpoint, so provides the project with the latest chromedriver from the old repository (hence version 114)

WebDriverManager catered for this change from version 5.5.0 (latest version at time of publishing this answer is 5.5.2) - see here:

• WebDriverManager Support for chromedriver 115+

Update the dependency in the pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
  <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
  <version>5.5.2</version>
</dependency> 

Wellfixed

Answer 3

I had this issue and swtiched to Geckodriver with Firefox. Geckodriver has never needed to be upgraded in 2 years, unlike the every 2 months with Chrone!

Vinni

Answer 4

Simply use this dependency in your maven pom

<dependencies>
    <!--Basic Dependencies-->


    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>4.15.0</version>
</dependency>

    <!--
    https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
        <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
        <version>5.5.3</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
        <version>31.0.1-jre</version>
    </dependency>


    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.testng/testng -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
        <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
        <version>7.4.0</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>


</dependencies>

Motherwell