I'm unable to get Katalon to work with Safari on MacOS Sonoma 14.7

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I cannot get Katalon Studio to open Safari on MacOS Sonoma 14.7.
I have run sudo safaridriver --enable
“Allow remote automation” is checked on the Developer Tab tab in Safari settings.
Everything I have found says it should work, but I always get the error message below:

=============== ROOT CAUSE =====================

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: The driver server has unexpectedly died!

For trouble shooting, please visit: https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/troubleshooting.html

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11-22-2024 05:07:13 PM Test Cases/Web/Player/Podcasts/podcast_add_to_queue

Elapsed time: 20.593s

Reason:

com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to open browser with url: ‘’

Does anyone know if this is Katalon problem, or a Safari (or Sonoma 14.7) problem, or possibly some settings locked down by corporate IT?

Thank you in advance,
Nathaniel

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You need to have the same WebDriver for Katalon as you have for your browser. I don’t see Safari as an option in my version of Katalon (main menu Tools > Update WebDriver), but if you have it, can you try to update the WebDriver? Otherwise, go to a web site that allows you to download a version of the WebDriver that matches your browser’s version for your operating system. Then, install the WebDriver “exe” in the “drivers” folder:
Katalon_Studio_Windows_64\configuration\resources\drivers

Otherwise, if we can get @kazurayam attention, he works on a Mac also, so he might have a better idea.

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I don’t use Safari usually. So I am not sure.

I have

  • macOS Sonoma 14.7.1
  • Safari 18.1.1
  • Katalon Studio 10.0

In a Katalon project on my machine, I executed the following Test Case specifying to use Safari.

import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI

WebUI.openBrowser("https://www.google.com/")
WebUI.delay(3)
WebUI.closeBrowser()

This worked just fine.

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I wanted to check the version of the safaridriver executable. In the Terminal, I did

$ cd /Applications/Katalon\ Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/configuration/resources/drivers/safaridriver/
:/Applications/Katalon Studio.app/Contents/Eclipse/configuration/resources/drivers/safaridriver
$ ls -la
total 472
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 kazurayam  admin     128 10 30 15:05 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 kazurayam  admin     192 10 30 15:05 ..
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 kazurayam  admin  234735 10 30 15:05 SafariDriver.safariextz
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 kazurayam  admin    3222 10 30 15:05 installWebDriver.scpt

I could not find the binary executable of safaridriver there. I got puzzled.

I don’t know from which path Katalon Studio loads the safaridriver. I don’t know how to find it.

I just tried this:

$ cd
:~
$ type safaridriver
safaridriver is /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin/safaridriver
$ cd /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin/
:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin
$ ./safaridriver --version
Included with Safari 18.1.1 (19619.2.8.111.7)

What is /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin/safaridriver ? I am pretty sure that I’ve never done anything to create this myself.

I searched and found the following Stackoverflow thread:

Where is it coming from?
Is it safe to keep?
Is it okay to remove from PATH?

The /System/Cryptexes directories are part of macOS security. Mostly Safari and a few other features use it.
So it came from Apple, it is safe to keep

That’s all I could find out.

@brueninn

Please check what you have on your Mac. If you find anything different from my machine, that’s could possibly be the reason of your issue

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@brueninn

Why do you use Safari at all?

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Try updating your driver manually and check

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Hi @brueninn,

Have you figured out the solution to your problems? If yes, please help provide solution so that others can refer to. If no, feel free to try the suggestions above, provide more information or close it if you no longer work on it.

Thank you