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How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium

I'm new comer of Selenium, and I can use selenium with Chromedriver to do basic auto-test now, the code works fine, but the problem is Chrome browser always update automatically at the backend, and code always fail to run after Chrome update. I know I need to download new chromedriver to solve this issue, but I wonder if there's any way to solve this issue without disabling chromebrowser update? tks.

I'm using Windows 10 / Chrome Version 67 / Python 3.6.4 / Selenium 3.12.0

Solution

  • No, there is no other alternative than updating the ChromeDriver binary versions, while the Chrome Browser keeps on getting updated automatically.

    Reason

    Each Chrome Browser is released after certain feature additions, modifications and removals from the existing features. To comply with the current set of Browser Features, Chrome Team releases the compatible ChromeDriver binary time to time. These ChromeDriver binaries are capable to interact with the Chrome Browser. Certain version of a ChromeDriver binary supports a specific range of Chrome Browser versions (some of the recent) as below:

    Conclusion

    To keep your script/program interactive with the updated Chrome Browser you have to keep the version of ChromeDriver binary in sync with the Chrome Browser as per the compatibility.