Chrome version 44 has some issue with selenium test - java

I am using Selenium and Chrome to write a test, yesterday when my Chrome updated from 43 to 44 my test got some problems with action.sendkey("arrow.down") and etc.
I tried to uninstall Chrome and install Chrome 43 but as soon as I do it updates its self to 44 !!!
I also tried chromedriver 2.16 but it did not work too.
How can I fix it?

This is related to Keys.ENTER, Keys.TAB, Keys.SPACE are not working on Chrome 44 and Input.dispatchKeyEvents handles some keys incorrectly.
The problem was fixed. You need to give it some time and upgrade as soon as a new chromium release come out, or revert back to 43. Or, install chromium from trunk.
Update Regarding AutoUpdate
You can refer How can I disable Google Chrome auto update for that

This issue will be solved soon when they release the new version, but now just uninstall Chrome 44 then install chrome 43 and disable its automatic uploading.

I have seen the below issues on chrome 44:
element.click does not work always, I have to wait for a couple of secs before I click. I used css selector. This worked fine on Chrome 43.
driver.findElement keeps throwing NoSuchElementException although element is on the page.
finding any element after page reload or new page load results in StaleElementException.
WebDriver instantiation and teardown is not working as intended: it opens multiple blank instances on Chrome 44.
I am blocked majorly on Chrome. I have filed Chromium bug #515171 but I am not sure if they will look at it.

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I have a selenium java project but I have an unsual error after some weeks not working on the project.
After searching on internet, most people said it was related to the chrome driver version. This seems weid, because I use the "io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager" package to handle chrome version (and as you can see, I used the 103 chrome driver version).
After downloading the next version, and use:
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But it seems the version is still 103 for my "personnal" chrome browser. I tried to update it, but it remains 103..
I tried to download the 104, but it act "beta chrome"...
What am I supposed to? Is there anyone else having issue with chrome selenium lately? Is there a work around? Can someone explain why selenium even bother to know the version of my work chrome?
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Getting following error in selenium tests
POST /session/ee1b9201-dadc-7446-b753-0a418a230d30/moveto did not match a known command
What i've done is
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There is an issue that Selenium tracks, that is blocked by the Marionette issue.
Since the issue it's over 3 weeks old, and looking at their commit log, I wouldn't hold my breath for a patch anytime soon.
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That's what I do at least for Germanium, until it will hopefully eventually work also for Marionette.

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I am using Firefox Developer Edition 49.0a2 and I am able to open the web browser but after driver.get("example.website.com") executes, it just loads the page and hangs there. The test does not fail or error out.
I've tried using Marionette Driver and it doesn't even interact with the browser. I have also tried the different variations of the constructor such as FirefoxDriver(FFbinary, FFprofile, FFcapabilities) and the others that only require one or two of the parameters in all possible permutations. The developer edition of Firefox is where I get the best results as Firefox 47.0 is explicitly not supported.
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it worked fine for me.
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Check it once if it help

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I've got a little test suite working on my laptop which I've tried to transfer over to my work desktop. To, hopefully, make things easier, I used the same version of Java and maven. However, typically, it's not been so easy :)
When I started Firefox, I got a "Firefox has stopped working" message box. The message box indicated the issue lay with "xul.dll" - so I closed the box and Firefox opened. It does this everytime I open Firefox.
I have even stripped out all my allure and other code and just ran a simple case:
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.co.uk");
However this doesn't work either.
It was then I checked the versions of Firefox were the same, turns out they weren't - but the Firefox updated fixed that. But my test still passes on the laptop, but fails on the desktop. I can't see anything I have missed, I can see one possible issue - the work desktop has Kaspersky installed.
Has anyone ever experienced what I've described?
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Check the version of Firefox on both computers. I have two Windows machines with Selenium 2.45.0. One machine has Firefox 37.0.2 and the code below executes fine. The other machine I just updated to Firefox 38.0.1 and I receive that error message box.
#Test
public void testFirefoxDriver() throws Throwable
{
new FirefoxDriver();
}
I've been using Selenium for over a year now. Our production server automatically updates Firefox and this occasionally causes incompatibilities between Firefox and Selenium. I would expect to see a new Selenium release very soon.
Firefox 38.x is not supported by Selenium 2.45.1. Either you have to roll back your firefox to 37.x or wait until next revision of Selenium.
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/437
I've got this same issue. Funnily enough it was working yesterday morning I started getting it yesterday afternoon and now it appears to be messing up my tests.
I have Selenium 2.45.0 & Firefox 38.0.1.
My tests were running perfectly before this started happening and nothing has changed in my code. I've also ran another test suite just to make sure that it wasn't the one I was working on. The same thing happened.
I've just uninstalled firefox downloaded the previous version and they now work again with no crash.

Automation execution is too slow in chrome using selenium webdriver 36

Earlier I was using chrome 32, which was very fast. But after upgrading to 36, it is very slow. It is taking more than a second to execute sendKeys instruction even after location element.
Any help would be appreciated.
The answer can be the following if you use 64-bit OS architecture on your PC - as far as I remember is because Selenium performs switching between 32-bit and 64-bit mode (which is very slow operation). ChromeDriver was supported only in 32-bit. I had same issues with IE driver too.
Update:
Next thing to check then is that the proxy and network settings in chrome have not been altered. In the begging I considered extensions and add-ons, but Selenium raises clean instance each time. As to #36 being slow - check the dev threads on google chrome, you will see the issue has been ongoing for well over 6mths and is affecting cross-platforms too. And one solution is try disabling hardware acceleration.... it was a tenfold improvement for me on my laptop.
To disable it... type "chrome:settings" in the address bar, click Advanced Settings, then uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" under the System header. Close all open Chrome browser instances and restart Chrome.

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