Does Selenium 3 work with chrome browser version 83?

Question

We have been using Selenium 3 (selenium-java 3.141.59)with Chrome Driver version 77. Lately we are trying use Chrome Driver version 83 or even Chrome Driver 107 with Selenium 3. Does going to Chrome version 83 or 104 require an upgrade to Selenium 4?

Answer 1

Using selenium3 and/or selenium4 broadly google-chrome and ChromeDriver major version must be in sync.

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• Server terminated early with status 1 error with Selenium for ChromeDriver and Chrome Browser and the log message "Only local connections are allowed"
• How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium

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However, using Selenium v4.6 and onwards Selenium Manager would automatically download the matching ChromeDriver and you can simply:

• Python sample code block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
  
  options = Options()
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
  driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
  

• Java sample code block:

  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
  
  ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
  options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
  WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
  driver.get("https://www.google.com/");