Katalon posted this: https://katalon-inc.my.site.com/support/article/Recorder-Fails-to-Launch-on-Chrome-137 . In this post, Katalon suggested a way to use Chrome for Testing. Katalon wrote
“Until an official fix is released, use Chrome for Testing as a temporary solution”.
No. I have an opposite idea. In order to run tests stably in Katalon Studio, “Chrome for Testing” is better than the ordinary Chrome browser.
Why? — You can fix the version of “Chrome for Testing”, whereas the ordinary Chrome browser automatically/silently updates its version. Auto-updates is likely to introduce unexpected internal change in Chrome , that could cause sudden problems as this issue.
Auto-updates: it’s greate for users, painful for developers.
So you should prefer “Chrome for Testing”.
I believe that all Katalon Studio users want to test their own web app; they don’t want to test the Chrome browser itself. So we should fix the browser version.