Selenium doesn't open the specified URL and shows data:,

Question

I am trying to open the URL using selenium in chrome. I have chromedriver available with me.

following is the code I want to execute.

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-infobars")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="./chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get("https://google.com")

The browser is opened successfully but it doesn't open the specified URL. The URL in the browser is data:,.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please!

Please see the attached image.

Note: Selenium version : 3.14.0

I get the following error on closing the chrome tab.

File "test.py", line 6, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="./chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)
  File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 75, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 156, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 251, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 320, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally
  (chrome not reachable)
  (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591071 (0b695ff80972cc1a65a5cd643186d2ae582cd4ac),platform=Linux 4.10.0-37-generic x86_64)

@Infern0 , Note that specifying scheme (e.g. `http`) is mandatory in Selenium — Andersson, Oct 11 '18 at 13:12
its in the comment :P but stackoverflow editor formatted it :P p.s. @monusuri try with https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7347494/selenium-webdriver-geturl-does-not-open-the-url — Infern0, Oct 11 '18 at 13:13
@monusuri , make sure you're using [last chromedriver version](https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.42/) along with last Chrome version — Andersson, Oct 11 '18 at 13:16
@monusuri Update the question with the error stack trace and your binary version information — undetected Selenium, Oct 11 '18 at 13:21
@DebanjanB There is no error stack trace. The only problem is that it doesn't open the specified URL. But once I close the tab I get the error. — Reyansh Kharga, Oct 11 '18 at 13:23
@monusuri Factually, each and every webdriver variant will produce stack trace while starting which will be the key to address your issue. — undetected Selenium, Oct 11 '18 at 13:26
from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver.exe') driver.get('https://www.google.com/')..this works for me — iamklaus, Oct 11 '18 at 13:32
@SarthakNegi I have already tried that. That gives me a PATH error. — Reyansh Kharga, Oct 11 '18 at 13:33

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '18 at 13:41

This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally
  (chrome not reachable)
  (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

...implies that the ChromeDriver instance was unable to start the Chrome Browser process.

Your main issue is the google-chrome is no longer present at the expected default location of /usr/bin/

As per ChromeDriver - Requirements the server expects you to have Chrome installed in the default location for each system:

¹ For Linux systems, the ChromeDriver expects /usr/bin/google-chrome to be a symlink to the actual Chrome binary. You can also override the Chrome binary location as follows:

A Windows OS based example:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.binary_location("C:\\path\\to\\chrome.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=options)
driver.get('http://google.com/')

Additional Considerations

Upgrade ChromeDriver to current ChromeDriver v2.42 level.
Keep Chrome version between Chrome v68-70 levels. (as per ChromeDriver v2.42 release notes)
Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
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.
Execute your @Test.

I have a file called google-chrome in /usr/bin. Do I have to modify it? — Reyansh Kharga, Oct 11 '18 at 13:54
Check the version, possibly an corrupted/older/outdated one. If so uninstall it and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client. — undetected Selenium, Oct 11 '18 at 13:56

Spevin · Answer 2 · 2022-11-28T22:02:55.140

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I found another reason for this behavior, which I don't see listed here. I believe Selenium libraries require Chrome Developer Tools to not be disabled. I was running into this issue and getting this regkey set got me past it.

Key - HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome
DWORD - DeveloperToolsDisabled
Value - 0

edited Nov 28 '22 at 22:02

answered Nov 28 '22 at 21:22

Spevin

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