# Not able to open browser

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-open-browser/24286>\
**Category:** Web Testing\
**Tags:** web-testing, katalon-studio\
**Created:** [May 2, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-open-browser/24286 "2019-05-02T07:59:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rajeshtakwale3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@rajeshtakwale3](https://forum.katalon.com/u/rajeshtakwale3)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-open-browser/24286/1 "2019-05-02T07:59:17Z")

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Chrome browser is not getting opened. Due to which all test cases are getting failed.

Script →

import static com.kms.katalon.core.checkpoint.CheckpointFactory.findCheckpoint  
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testcase.TestCaseFactory.findTestCase  
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestDataFactory.findTestData  
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.ObjectRepository.findTestObject  
import com.kms.katalon.core.checkpoint.Checkpoint as Checkpoint  
import com.kms.katalon.core.cucumber.keyword.CucumberBuiltinKeywords as CucumberKW  
import com.kms.katalon.core.mobile.keyword.MobileBuiltInKeywords as Mobile  
import com.kms.katalon.core.model.FailureHandling as FailureHandling  
import com.kms.katalon.core.testcase.TestCase as TestCase  
import com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestData as TestData  
import com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObject as TestObject  
import com.kms.katalon.core.webservice.keyword.WSBuiltInKeywords as WS  
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI  
import internal.GlobalVariable as GlobalVariable

WebUI.openBrowser('[https://www.google.com](https://www.google.com) ')

Error—\>

05-02-2019 01:25:12 PM Test Cases/Open\_Browser\_and\_Log\_in\_SFDC

Elapsed time: 4.254s

Test Cases/Open\_Browser\_and\_Log\_in\_SFDC FAILED.  
Reason:  
com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to open browser with url: '[https://www.google.com](https://www.google.com) ’  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.stepFailed(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:64)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.runKeyword(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:26)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.OpenBrowserKeyword.openBrowser(OpenBrowserKeyword.groovy:81)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.OpenBrowserKeyword.execute(OpenBrowserKeyword.groovy:67)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordExecutor.executeKeywordForPlatform(KeywordExecutor.groovy:56)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords.openBrowser(WebUiBuiltInKeywords.groovy:60)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords$openBrowser.call(Unknown Source)  
at Open\_Browser\_and\_Log\_in\_SFDC.run(Open\_Browser\_and\_Log\_in\_SFDC:16)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.run(ScriptEngine.java:194)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.runScriptAsRawText(ScriptEngine.java:119)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.runScript(TestCaseExecutor.java:336)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.doExecute(TestCaseExecutor.java:327)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.processExecutionPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:306)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.accessMainPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:298)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.execute(TestCaseExecutor.java:232)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:114)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:105)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain$runTestCase$0.call(Unknown Source)  
at TempTestCase1556783709555.run(TempTestCase1556783709555.groovy:21)  
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: Chrome version must be between 70 and 73  
(Driver info: chromedriver=73.0.3683.68 (47787ec04b6e38e22703e856e101e840b65afe72),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86\_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)  
Command duration or timeout: 967 milliseconds  
Build info: version: ‘3.7.1’, revision: ‘8a0099a’, time: ‘2017-11-06T21:07:36.161Z’  
System info: host: ‘TCL-5106126’, ip: ‘172.16.5.48’, os.name: ‘Windows 10’, os.arch: ‘amd64’, os.version: ‘10.0’, java.version: ‘1.8.0\_181’  
Driver info: driver.version: CChromeDriver  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:214)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:166)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonWireProtocolResponse.lambda$new$0(JsonWireProtocolResponse.java:53)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonWireProtocolResponse.lambda$getResponseFunction$2(JsonWireProtocolResponse.java:91)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.lambda$createSession$0(ProtocolHandshake.java:123)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:126)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:73)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:142)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:600)  
at com.kms.katalon.selenium.driver.CChromeDriver.execute(CChromeDriver.java:20)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:219)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:142)  
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:181)  
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:147)  
at com.kms.katalon.selenium.driver.CChromeDriver.(CChromeDriver.java:13)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory.createNewChromeDriver(DriverFactory.java:281)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory.startNewBrowser(DriverFactory.java:243)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory.openWebDriver(DriverFactory.java:188)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.OpenBrowserKeyword$\_openBrowser\_closure1.doCall(OpenBrowserKeyword.groovy:74)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.OpenBrowserKeyword$\_openBrowser\_closure1.call(OpenBrowserKeyword.groovy)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.runKeyword(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:20)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.OpenBrowserKeyword.openBrowser(OpenBrowserKeyword.groovy:81)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.OpenBrowserKeyword.execute(OpenBrowserKeyword.groovy:67)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordExecutor.executeKeywordForPlatform(KeywordExecutor.groovy:56)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords.openBrowser(WebUiBuiltInKeywords.groovy:60)  
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords$openBrowser.call(Unknown Source)  
at Script1556783218550.run(Script1556783218550.groovy:16)  
… 11 more

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**Author:** ![hpulsford](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/hpulsford/32/2985_2.png) [@hpulsford](https://forum.katalon.com/u/hpulsford)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-open-browser/24286/2 "2019-05-02T08:05:38Z")

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> [@rajeshtakwale3](#):
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> Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: Chrome version must be between 70 and 73

You dont have the correct version of chrome for the chrome driver you have - just update chrome to meet the requirements and you should be fine.

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**Author:** ![devalex88](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/devalex88/32/336_2.png) [@devalex88](https://forum.katalon.com/u/devalex88)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-open-browser/24286/3 "2019-05-02T12:29:23Z")

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We will have a hotfix release tomorrow with new WebDrivers and a feature that allows them to be updated automatically.

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**Author:** ![Dave\_Evers](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dave_evers/32/435_2.png) [@Dave\_Evers](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Dave_Evers)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-open-browser/24286/4 "2019-05-02T13:17:51Z")

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Great idea regarding the feature that allows them to be updated automatically.

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**Author:** ![albert.vu](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/albert.vu/32/20595_2.png) [@albert.vu](https://forum.katalon.com/u/albert.vu)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-open-browser/24286/5 "2022-08-08T07:49:16Z")

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