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Selenium webdriver is looking at wrong path for Chrome.exe

I am trying to launch chrome.exe from selenium webdriver i have chrome installed on my machine and chromedriver path is also given in code but selenium webdriver for java is looking for chrome.exe on wrong path and giving error and not launching browser.
I have tried options class to locate the chrome.exe with the actual path of chrome.exe but not working for me.I have done required imports as well but still no success.
I have tried below selenium webdriver java code
public class News24Test
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C://News24SA//ChromeDriver//chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("C://Program Files(x86)//Google//Chrome//Application//chrome.exe"); // Provide absolute executable chrome browser path with name and extension here
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("http://www.news24.com");
}
}
Selenium is looking at below path which is wrong path
C:\Users\orestip\LocalSettings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Try setting the options first:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("C:\\Program Files(x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\News24SA\\ChromeDriver\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Make sure the chromedriver version and the chrome browers versions match.
You can either update your chrome browser to match the driver version or you can choose a chromedriver that matches your browser version.

Hi so old question but if anyone else is a bit stumped by this, I'll give my take.
So, you may one day have a working chromedriver and then it suddenly just stops working. What actually happens is Chrome updates behind the scenes and makes it out of date.
What you need to do is update your chromedriver so it matches your actual, normal Chrome installation.

EDGE crashes with webDriver

I’m using,
◦Selenium 3.12.0
◦Java binding
◦Windows 10 (build 15063.1029)
◦EDGE driver (Version: 4.15063 | Edge version supported: 15.15063 )
Here is my code to open the browser
import org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver;
System.setProperty(“webdriver.edge.driver", C://mE//Selenium//Installation//Drivers//Edge//v15063//MicrosoftWebDriver.exe”);
WebDriver driver = new EdgeDriver();
The browser (EDGE) opens for a sec and then crashes immediately. Here is the error (unknown),
Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to parse remote response: Unknown error Build info: version: '3.11.0’, revision: 'e59cfb3’, time: ‘2018-03-11T20:33:08.638Z’ os.name: 'Windows 10’, os.version: '10.0’, java.version: ‘10.0.1’ Driver info: driver.version: EdgeDriver at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:111) at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:73) at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:136) at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83) at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:545) at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:209) at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:132) at
org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.(EdgeDriver.java:141) at
org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver.(EdgeDriver.java:96) at
projectOne.classOne.main(classOne.java:66)
This only happens with EDGE. Other browsers (IE, Chrome & FireFox) are launching just fine. I realize that, there is a limitation that EDGE allows only one instance to be running for webDriver testing. In my case, there was no other instance of EDGE running and yet it was crashing soon after it launched. I'm wondering is there any settings changes need to be made in EDGE in order for it to work with webDriver.

There shouldn't be any other settings you need to make this work.
Sometimes this can not work if MicrosoftWebDriver.exe is stuck in a zombie-type state. So check your task manager that this isn't the case.
Your MicrosoftWebDriver.exe seems to match your windows version, but it might be worth just going to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/ to just download a fresh copy to ensure there's nothing funky going on there.
Something else to try, try launching edge via this code:
var edgeService = EdgeDriverService.CreateDefaultService();
edgeService.UseVerboseLogging = true;
var edgeOptions = new EdgeOptions();
driver = new EdgeDriver(edgeService, edgeOptions);
You might be able to get more logging out of this too.

Could be below reason
Download the Webdriver as per the OS Build Version
Check the Edge browser opening only one tab on manually opening the browser
it should have only one URL in the Browser settings --> open Microsoft edge with

Edge by dafault runs on instance to make the page load faster. This is the default setting in Windows 10. So even if we close edge one instance is always running. We can disable it.
Follow the steps here:
https://www.askvg.com/windows-10-what-are-microsoft-edge-exe-processes-running-in-task-manager-and-how-to-disable-them/

For me the following fix worked:
Go to WebDriver.
Install Microsoft Edge Driver according to the version of edge browser(You can go to this page to have reference: Use WebDriver (Chromium) for test automation).
Go to downloads and unzip the driver.
Now you can write the following code in selenium in java.
System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", "C:\\Users\\User-name\\Downloads\\msedgedriver.exe");
driver = new EdgeDriver();

Please heck your browser version and then pick the right one from the below link ,
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/#downloads
This is working fine for me and i too faced the similar problem.

Selenium 2.53 not working on Firefox 47

I am getting error while using Firefox with WebDriver.
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to connect
to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms.
Firefox version:47.0
Selenium:2.53.0
Windows 10 64 bit
Is anyone getting a similar issue or any idea what is the solution for this? It's working fine with Chrome but with Firefox none of the URLs are getting loaded.

Unfortunately Selenium WebDriver 2.53.0 is not compatible with Firefox 47.0. The WebDriver component which handles Firefox browsers (FirefoxDriver) will be discontinued. As of version 3.0, Selenium WebDriver will need the geckodriver binary to manage Firefox browsers. More info here and here.
Therefore, in order to use Firefox 47.0 as browser with Selenium WebDriver 2.53.0, you need to download the Firefox driver (which is a binary file called geckodriver as of version 0.8.0, and formerly wires) and export its absolute path to the variable webdriver.gecko.driver as a system property in your Java code:
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/path/to/geckodriver");
Luckily, the library WebDriverManager can do this work for you, i.e. download the proper Marionette binary for your machine (Linux, Mac, or Windows) and export the value of the proper system property. To use this library, you need to include this dependency into your project:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
<artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
<version>5.1.0</version>
</dependency>
... and then execute this line in your program before using WebDriver:
WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();
A complete running example of a JUnit 4 test case using WebDriver could be as follows:
public class FirefoxTest {
protected WebDriver driver;
#BeforeClass
public static void setupClass() {
WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();
}
#Before
public void setupTest() {
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
}
#After
public void teardown() {
if (driver != null) {
driver.quit();
}
}
#Test
public void test() {
// Your test code here
}
}
Take into account that Marionette will be the only option for future (for WebDriver 3+ and Firefox 48+), but currently (version 0.9.0 at writing time) is not very stable. Take a look to the Marionette roadmap for further details.
UPDATE
Selenium WebDriver 2.53.1 has been released on 30th June 2016. FirefoxDriver is working again with Firefox 47.0.1 as browser.

Try using firefox 46.0.1. It best matches with Selenium 2.53
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/46.0.1/win64/en-US/

I had the same issue and found out that you need to switch drivers because support was dropped. Instead of using the Firefox Driver, you need to use the Marionette Driver in order to run your tests. I am currently working through the setup myself and can post some suggested steps if you'd like when I have a working example.
Here are the steps I followed to get this working on my Java environment on Mac (worked for me in my Linux installations (Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu) as well):
Download the nightly executable from the releases page
Unpack the archive
Create a directory for Marionette (i.e., mkdir -p /opt/marionette)
Move the unpacked executable file to the directory you made
Update your $PATH to include the executable (also, edit your .bash_profile if you want)
:bangbang: Make sure you chmod +x /opt/marionette/wires-x.x.x so that it is executable
In your launch, make sure you use the following code below (it is what I used on Mac)
Quick Note
Still not working as expected, but at least gets the browser launched now. Need to figure out why - right now it looks like I need to rewrite my tests to get it to work.
Java Snippet
WebDriver browser = new MarionetteDriver();
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/opt/marionette/wires-0.7.1-OSX");

If you're on OSX using Homebrew, you can install old Firefox versions via brew cask:
brew tap goldcaddy77/firefox
brew cask install firefox-46 # or whatever version you want
After installing, you'll just need to rename your FF executable in the Applications directory to "Firefox".
More info can be found at the git repo homebrew-firefox. Props to smclernon for creating the original cask.

If you're on a Mac do brew install geckodriver and off you go!

In case anyone is wondering how to use Marionette in C#.
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(); // Your custom profile
var service = FirefoxDriverService.CreateDefaultService("DirectoryContainingTheDriver", "geckodriver.exe");
// Set the binary path if you want to launch the release version of Firefox.
service.FirefoxBinaryPath = #"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe";
var option = new FirefoxProfileOptions(profile) { IsMarionette = true };
var driver = new FirefoxDriver(
service,
option,
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
Overriding FirefoxOptions to provide the function to add additional capability and set Firefox profile because selenium v53 doesn't provide that function yet.
public class FirefoxProfileOptions : FirefoxOptions
{
private DesiredCapabilities _capabilities;
public FirefoxProfileOptions()
: base()
{
_capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.Firefox();
_capabilities.SetCapability("marionette", this.IsMarionette);
}
public FirefoxProfileOptions(FirefoxProfile profile)
: this()
{
_capabilities.SetCapability(FirefoxDriver.ProfileCapabilityName, profile.ToBase64String());
}
public override void AddAdditionalCapability(string capabilityName, object capabilityValue)
{
_capabilities.SetCapability(capabilityName, capabilityValue);
}
public override ICapabilities ToCapabilities()
{
return _capabilities;
}
}
Note: Launching with profile doesn't work with FF 47, it works with FF 50 Nightly.
However, we tried to convert our test to use Marionette, and it's just not viable at the moment because the implementation of the driver is either not completed or buggy. I'd suggest people downgrade their Firefox at this moment.

New Selenium libraries are now out, according to: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/2110
The download page http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ seems not to be updated just yet, but by adding 1 to the minor version in the link, I could download the C# version: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.53/selenium-dotnet-2.53.1.zip
It works for me with Firefox 47.0.1.
As a side note, I was able build just the webdriver.xpi Firefox extension from the master branch in GitHub, by running ./go //javascript/firefox-driver:webdriver:run – which gave an error message but did build the build/javascript/firefox-driver/webdriver.xpi file, which I could rename (to avoid a name clash) and successfully load with the FirefoxProfile.AddExtension method. That was a reasonable workaround without having to rebuild the entire Selenium library.

Its a FF47 issue
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/2110
Please downgrade to FF 46 or below (or try out FF48 developer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/48)
Instructions on how to downgrade:
https://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/04/how-to-install-previous-versions-of-firefox-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/
Or if you are on Mac, as suggested by someone else in this thread use brew.

Firefox 47.0 stopped working with Webdriver.
Easiest solution is to switch to Firefox 47.0.1 and Webdriver 2.53.1. This combination again works. In fact, restoring Webdriver compatibility was the main reason behind the 47.0.1 release, according to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/47.0.1/releasenotes/.

You can try using this code,
private WebDriver driver;
System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette","Your path to driver/geckodriver.exe");
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
I upgraded to selenium 3.0.0 and Firefox version is 49.0.1
You can download geckodriver.exe from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
Make sure you download zip file only, geckodriver-v0.11.1-win64.zip file or win32 one as per your system and extract it in a folder.
Put the path for that folder in the "Your path to driver" quotes.Don't forget to put geckodriver.exe in the path.

I eventually installed an additional old version of Firefox (used for testing only) to resolve this, besides my regular (secure, up to date) latest Firefox installation.
This requires webdriver to know where it can find the Firefox binary, which can be set through the webdriver.firefox.bin property.
What worked for me (mac, maven, /tmp/ff46 as installation folder) is:
mvn -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin=/tmp/ff46/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin verify
To install an old version of Firefox in a dedicated folder, create the folder, open Finder in that folder, download the Firefox dmg, and drag it to that Finder.

Here's what the problem looked like in Wireshark
Just load up 2.53.1 and every thing will work.

As of September 2016
Firefox 48.0 and selenium==2.53.6 work fine without any errors
To upgrade firefox on Ubuntu 14.04 only
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade firefox

It seems to me that the best solution is to update to Selenium 3.0.0, download geckodriver.exe and use Firefox 47 or higher.
I changed Firefox initialization to:
string geckoPathTest = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "TestFiles\\geckodriver.exe");
string geckoPath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "geckodriver.exe");
File.Copy(geckoPathTest, geckoPath);
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("webdriver.gecko.driver", geckoPath);
_firefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver();

I can confirm that selenium 2.53.6 works with firefox 44 for me on ubuntu 15.

Mac + Selenium + Chrome = cannot find Chrome binary

Hi i m trying to setup selenium with eclipse on a Mac pc.
When I download the ChromeDriver and place it on the below folder :
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","/Users/george/Downloads/chromedriver");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
I run the code.
Then I get the following exception :
Starting ChromeDriver 2.21.371459
(36d3d07f660ff2bc1bf28a75d1cdabed0983e7c4) on port 33424 Only local
connections are allowed. Exception in thread "main"
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot find
Chrome binary (Driver info: chromedriver=2.21.371459
(36d3d07f660ff2bc1bf28a75d1cdabed0983e7c4),platform=Mac OS X 10.10.5
x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace
information) Command duration or timeout: 312 milliseconds Build info:
version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 17:00:58'
System info: host: 'Georges-Mac-mini.local', ip: '192.168.1.2',
os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.10.5',
java.version: '1.7.0_25' Driver info:
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
So I m assuming that some binary is missing? Note that I use regularly Chrome as my browser.. I dont know if this is related or not.
My pc is mac. I have read the ChromeDriver site but I dont understand what exactly to do. I have problems navigating to paths that are a bit strange like : "Google Drive" instead of "Google/Drive" or paths like
"cd Chrome\ Apps.localized/" or "/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome". I mean , wt?? are those back and forth slashes ??? I just now a few things on linux but here.. i m stuck and confused
On Windows things where much easier.. you just downloaded an .exe file locally point the driver with options to that file and everything was smoothly. I cant find information on mac specific.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks

"cannot find Chrome binary" simply means the os cannot find chrome app. Just check chrome installation directory. Right directory should be "/Applications/Google Chrome.app". If you download your chrome from third platform, the directory may be "/Applications/Chrome.app". It makes the os cannot find your chrome.

The stack trace indicates that it cannot find the binary for the chrome webdrive. You'll need to download it if you haven't already. Once you have downloaded the chrome webdriver, point your application at the binary.
if you have a path with spaces, such as
/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
you'll need to escape the spaces with backslashes like so
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome
a backslash followed by a space, \, tells the argument parser not to use that space as a delimiter but rather to include it as part of the path.

Aside from trying the path with and without slashes (the ruby driver expects spaces not be escaped), this problem may also be caused by a version mismatch between Chrome and Chromedriver.
Chrome Canary, specifically, is often unsupported by the current stable Chromedriver release. There are nightly builds linked at https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/chromedriver-canary. Enter the proper prefix in the search box for the Mac version, then scroll as far as it goes for the most recent version–yeah, the interface sucks.
There's a decent chance this won't work, either. Installing the stable Chrome release is your best bet.

I was facing this "cannot find Chrome binary", when I realised that I don't have the Chrome Browser installed before to try to use it.
Don't do this at home, guys...

I found that upgrading selenium-webdriver to 3.142.3 and Capybara to 3.20.2 fixed this for me. This required making some changes to my webdriver configuration:
capabilities = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome(
'goog:chromeOptions': {
args: %w(--disable-gpu --headless --no-sandbox --window-size=1024,768)
}
)
driver = Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new app, {
browser: :chrome,
desired_capabilities: capabilities,
http_client: client,
}

Use double slashes in your path like this:
//Test Data//Drivers//chromedriver
and copy and paste the chrome driver exe to some other location.

How to run selenium tests in Chrome browser?

I have some tests using JUnit and Selenium, and I need to run it on the Chrome browser. I downloaded the Chrome driver, and configure my SetUp() as:
#Before
public void SetUp() throws Exception{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
baseUrl = ;
driver.get(baseUrl);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);//Wait 5 seconds to load the page
}
The ChromeDriver.exe are added in my "Referenced Libraries" folder.
When I'll run the tests, the following error is displayed:
java.lang.exception: No runnable methods
Anybody know how can I fix this?
SOLUTION
1º Add the chromedriver in the path of your computer.
2º Update your setProperty as: System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\pedro_nazario\\Desktop\\ChromeDriver\\chromedriver.exe");
The second parameter must be the way where is your Chromedriver.exe in my case, the chromedriver are in a folder on desktop.
The most important thing, that you never forget
When you'll run the tests, before, close your Chrome browser completely. Any chrome browser must be open before you run your tests. If have some chrome browser opened, the selenium will take a error in your screen.

According to the documentation, webdriver.chrome.driver should contain the path to the chromedriver executable:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
Alternatively, you can add path to the chromedriver to the PATH environment variable.