Selenium: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: This version of ChomeDriver only supports Chrome version 102

Question

When I run the program some error message is shown and the program can not be executed and the message:

org.openqa.selenium.sessionNotCreatedExeception:could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: This version of ChomeDriver only supports Chrome version 102.

Chromedriver is not hitting the URL.

Answer 1

Your chrome version does not match the version of your chrome webdriver. You have to download the right version of the webdriver. If you are not sure which version of Chrome are you running, you can find it in "about" section.

Answer 2

This error message...

org.openqa.selenium.sessionNotCreatedExeception:could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: This version of ChomeDriver only supports Chrome version 102

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. google-chrome session.

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

• You are using chromedriver=102.0
• Release Notes of chromedriver=102.0 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 102

• Presumably you are using the latest chrome=104.0

So there is a clear mismatch between chromedriver=102.0 and the chrome=104.0

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Solution

Ensure that:

• ChromeDriver is updated to ChromeDriver v104.0 level.

Also ensure,

• Chrome Browser is updated to current chrome=104.0 (as per chromedriver=104.0 release notes).
• Selenium is upgraded to current released Version 4.4.0.