Selenium doesn't return after starting Chrome but returns after starting Firefox?

Question

I am trying to execute the following code in Python with Selenium:

def create_browser(first_page=None):
    print "Starting"
    browser = webdriver.Chrome()
    if first_page:
        browser.get(first_page);
    print "Done."
    return browser

browser = create_browser()

When I execute this code, Chromium starts but the "Done" statement doesn't get printed. However, if I replace Chrome() by Firefox() the browser starts and "Done" gets printed. I tried to verfiy this in terminal too. If I execute following series of statements:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

When I replace Chrome() by Firefox() the terminal returns normally and displays >> (in the python shell but that doesn't happen with Chromium. Can anyone tell what's going wrong here. I really appreciate your help. Thanks!

Update:

I am not sure if this helps but when I execute using webdriver a file called chromedriver.log gets generated in the directory containing my code. It has the following contents:

[0.000][INFO]:      ChromeDriver 20.0.1133.0 /home/therookie/bin/chromedriver
[1.000][FINE]:      Initializing session with capabilities {
   "browserName": "chrome",
   "chromeOptions": {
      "args": [  ],
      "extensions": [  ]
   },
   "javascriptEnabled": true,
   "platform": "ANY",
   "version": ""
}

[1.001][INFO]:      Launching chrome: /usr/bin/google-chrome --disable-hang-monitor --disable-prompt-on-repost --dom-automation --full-memory-crash-report --no-default-browser-check --no-first-run --ignore-certificate-errors --homepage=about:blank
[11.796][SEVERE]:   Failed to initialize connection

Way to check a python library - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/710609/checking-python-module-version-at-runtime/4939465#4939465 and what is the chrome driver version is the one you installed (check the executable file name) — Amey, Mar 12 '14 at 18:07
I downloaded it from https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/detail?name=chromedriver_linux64_20.0.1133.0.zip&can=4&q — TheRookierLearner, Mar 12 '14 at 18:17
And I guess that's deprecated and that's the reason I'm having this problem. :( — TheRookierLearner, Mar 12 '14 at 18:18
Ok. I downloaded ChromeDriverversion 2.9 and copied it to /usr/bin and ensured that it has `-rwx------` permission, still I have the same problem. @Amey - Any suggestions? — TheRookierLearner, Mar 12 '14 at 18:41

amitdatta · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-14T16:57:55.120

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Chrome requires a special file called chromedriver to run. Look here to see what chromedriver is

from selenium import webdriver import os chromedriver = "PATH_TO_CHROMEDRIVER" os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver) This should launch Chrome and print done.

edited May 14 '14 at 16:57

answered May 12 '14 at 19:23

amitdatta

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Actually, if chromedriver is installed anywhere in your path (e.g. you may have installed it via, brew install chromedriver) then webdriver.Chrome() will find it. This is good to know if you have multiple versions of chromedriver in your path, somewhow. – ziff May 11 '19 at 05:55

Selenium doesn't return after starting Chrome but returns after starting Firefox?

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