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Nice to hear it.

Now I know, your are behide a firewall, so that you have a difficulty upgrading WebDrivers. On the other hand, Chrome browsers automatically upgrades itself quite often. Therefore you will have hard time keeping sync the versions of Chrome browser and ChromeDriver.

I would recommend you to talk to your network administrator and ask them to allow outgoing traffic to the WebDrivers’ download URLs.

Additionally, I would recommend you to look at “Chrome for Testing”. “Chrome for Testing” is another Chrome flavor which does NOT autoupgrade itself. You can fix its version on your machine. This makes the life of Selenium users easier. You can control the vesions of “Chrome for Testing” and ChromeDriver.

Unfortunately Katalon does not support “Chrome for Testing” well. In fact Katalon disregards the Chrome for Testing. You have to configure your project for “Chrome for Testing” yourself.

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