How to handle “Unable to receive message from renderer” in chrome driver?

Question

Test Environment:

• chrome=73.0.3683.103
• chromedriver version: 73.0.3683.68
• java.version: '1.8.0_151'
• os.name: 'Windows 7'

I am getting following error:

Unable to receive message from renderer 
Timed out receiving message from renderer: 19.997 Timed out receiving message from renderer:-0.004

Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Answer 1

This error message...

Unable to receive message from renderer Timed out receiving message from renderer: 19.997 
Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.004

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Web Browsing Session i.e. Chrome Browser session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

• Your ChromeDriver version is 73.0.3683.68.
• Your Chrome version is 73.0.3683.103.
• Your JDK version is 1.8.0_151 which is pretty old.

So there is a clear mismatch between the ChromeDriver v73.0.3683.68, Chrome v73.0.3683.103 and JDK v8u151.

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Solution

Upgrade JDK to recent levels JDK 8u202.