Selenium Crashing: Chrome automation extension has crashed

Question

I am using Selenium web drivers, and today, for no apparant reason I started getting an error with the message"Chrome Automation Extension has crashed. Click this balloon to reload the extension".

The only thing I can think of is I added an extension for testing XPath to Chrome today. But it was working fine for a while after I added that.

Could it be some Chrome security issue?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, I could resolve it as the following:
1.Don't run Chrome as Admin.
2.Don't run your selenium App as Admin.

Answer 2

Ok, so you are serious about the admin part as a solution to the problem?

Why not follow the advices from Google ? http://chromedriver.chromium.org/help/chrome-doesn-t-start

Passing '--no-sandbox' flag when creating your WebDriver session. Special test environments sometimes cause Chrome to crash when the sandbox is enabled.

So I ended up doing as they adviced and can run things as admin . Guess it's a way forward for me now and hopefully it's a valid solution for others too.

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("--no-sandbox");
browser = new ChromeDriver(options);

Answer 3

My problem was that my Windows temp folder was on a drive (D) that is not my primary Windows drive (C) and that I had also mapped that drive to a sub-folder of C.

1. I went into Disk Management
2. Right-clicked my secondary drive
3. Selected "Change drive letter and paths"
4. Removed the entry where I had mounted the drive as a folder
5. Opened my Environment Settings
6. Changed my TEMP and TMP entries from "C:\\Temp" (the path where my 2nd drive was mounted) to "D:\\"
7. Restarted my computer

Note that step #4 was important. The plugin would still crash if this was present.

Answer 4

我有同样的问题，但我的情况是我试图用不同的配置文件打开 Visual Studio。当我打开带有默认配置文件的 Visual Studio 时，它工作正常。所以我猜是它的配置文件问题。

Answer 5

我在没有管理员权限的情况下启动 Git Bash 时解决了我的问题。

Answer 6

I had the same issue, using Python with Selenium

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions();
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options,executable_path="../drivers/chromedriver.exe")

The above piece of code resolved my issue

Answer 7

We faced the same problem. For work around we are using Firefox now. You just need to add Selenium.Firefox.WebDriver by jbaranda NuGet package

Answer 8

I had the same problem. In my case it was related to the Windows account I use to log in to Windows, which is account in the Administrators group. However, it was not desirable to change the account type.

To solve this I created a new local account under the control panel (of type 'power user') and used that account to run Chrome and it worked fine.

Answer 9

For Python this solved my problem use:

from selenium import webdriver

# start the browser
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
# options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
# options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
# options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

print(driver.title)
print(driver.current_url)

#driver.quit() # Uncoment to keep chromedriver open.

Answer 10

In my case I have to run it under Admin, I fixed it by updating .NET framework. You can update this in Windows Update. I updated every item that is related to .NET framework, including crucial ones and optional ones.

Here are two items I updated:

2018-01 Preview of Quality Rollup for .NET framework (KB4057272)

.NET framework 4.7.1 (KB4033369)

Hope this helps

Edit: I run Win 10 with chromedriver 2.34 and Chrome v64.0.3282.140(64-bit)