Unable to open browser; This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 77

Hi guys!

I upgraded to MacOS Catalina yesterday and for some reasons, Katalon fails to run all of my tests in Chrome. It cannot even pass through the first test case; nor can it even start the Web Recording process. The Chrome browser does not open at all.

Unable to open browser with url: '' (Root cause: com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: 
...
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 77
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'
System info: host: '<hidden>.local', ip: '<hidden>', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.2', java.version: '1.8.0_181'
Driver info: driver.version: CChromeDriver
remote stacktrace: 0   chromedriver                        0x00000001069b0f09 chromedriver + 3694345
1   chromedriver                        0x000000010693dfd3 chromedriver + 3223507
2   chromedriver                        0x00000001066dd58f chromedriver + 730511
3   chromedriver                        0x000000010664310b chromedriver + 98571
4   chromedriver                        0x000000010663f22a chromedriver + 82474
5   chromedriver                        0x000000010666cb71 chromedriver + 269169
6   chromedriver                        0x0000000106669e83 chromedriver + 257667
7   chromedriver                        0x000000010664523d chromedriver + 107069
8   chromedriver                        0x00000001066461d5 chromedriver + 111061
9   chromedriver                        0x000000010696c07f chromedriver + 3412095
10  chromedriver                        0x0000000106978ced chromedriver + 3464429
11  chromedriver                        0x0000000106978a78 chromedriver + 3463800
12  chromedriver                        0x000000010694b959 chromedriver + 3279193
13  chromedriver                        0x0000000106979548 chromedriver + 3466568
14  chromedriver                        0x00000001069601b7 chromedriver + 3363255
15  chromedriver                        0x0000000106997474 chromedriver + 3589236
16  chromedriver                        0x00000001069b6ce7 chromedriver + 3718375
17  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff6e072e65 _pthread_start + 148
18  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff6e06e83b thread_start + 15
...

I was wondering if you guys are experiencing the same, and if you guys have any idea as to how I can resolve this matter.

In the meantime, I’ll do some research about it and update this thread accordingly.

Thank you!

Yes, same errors since midnight. We use windows server 2016 and have Chrome 79 installed. I updated Katalon Studio and Katalon Runtime to latest version - it did not solve the issue.

Chrome 78 works fine. Chrome 79 breaks.

Hi,

Also experienced the same issue. Anyone knows how to fix this?

EDIT: Already updated webdriver and it works thanks

Please also check in task manager … I had more than 80 chromedriver instances running in parallel! you can terminate them all using Katalon Studio functionality.

Hello ,
I am running in same issue .
Did anyone come up with solution ?
Test Cases FAILED.
Reason:
com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to open browser with url: ‘Chrome’
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:60)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords.openBrowser(WebUiBuiltInKeywords.groovy:60)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords$openBrowser.call(Unknown Source)
at Create_save_submit Expense Report.run(Create_save_submit Expense Report:19)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.run(ScriptEngine.java:194)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.runScriptAsRawText(ScriptEngine.java:119)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.runScript(TestCaseExecutor.java:337)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.doExecute(TestCaseExecutor.java:328)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.processExecutionPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:307)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.accessMainPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:299)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.execute(TestCaseExecutor.java:233)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:114)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:105)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain$runTestCase$0.call(Unknown Source)
at TempTestCase1577213725917.run(TempTestCase1577213725917.groovy:23)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 77
Build info: version: ‘3.141.59’, revision: ‘e82be7d358’, time: ‘2018-11-14T08:25:53’
System info: host: ‘S10LTWPEAPYMDES’, ip: ‘10.0.26.101’, os.name: ‘Windows 10’, os.arch: ‘amd64’, os.version: ‘10.0’, java.version: ‘1.8.0_181’
Driver info: driver.version: CChromeDriver
remote stacktrace: Backtrace:
Ordinal0 [0x005EEB13+1501971]
Ordinal0 [0x0056F6D1+980689]
Ordinal0 [0x004F765F+489055]
Ordinal0 [0x0048F2F4+62196]
Ordinal0 [0x0048BCDA+48346]
Ordinal0 [0x004A9800+169984]
Ordinal0 [0x004A942D+169005]
Ordinal0 [0x004A78EB+162027]
Ordinal0 [0x00490AC7+68295]
Ordinal0 [0x00491B40+72512]
Ordinal0 [0x00491AD9+72409]
Ordinal0 [0x00588F37+1085239]
GetHandleVerifier [0x0068D7ED+503293]
GetHandleVerifier [0x0068D580+502672]
GetHandleVerifier [0x006946AC+531644]
GetHandleVerifier [0x0068DFFA+505354]
Ordinal0 [0x00580606+1050118]
Ordinal0 [0x0058047F+1049727]
Ordinal0 [0x0058AF9B+1093531]
Ordinal0 [0x0058B103+1093891]
Ordinal0 [0x0058A095+1089685]
BaseThreadInitThunk [0x77346359+25]
RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77847B74+228]
RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77847B44+180]

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.W3CHandshakeResponse.lambda$errorHandler$0(W3CHandshakeResponse.java:62)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HandshakeResponse.lambda$getResponseFunction$0(HandshakeResponse.java:30)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.lambda$createSession$0(ProtocolHandshake.java:126)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:128)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:74)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:136)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:552)
at com.kms.katalon.selenium.driver.CChromeDriver.execute(CChromeDriver.java:19)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:213)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:181)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:147)
at com.kms.katalon.selenium.driver.CChromeDriver.<init>(CChromeDriver.java:13)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory.createNewChromeDriver(DriverFactory.java:347)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory.startNewBrowser(DriverFactory.java:308)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory.openWebDriver(DriverFactory.java:206)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.OpenBrowserKeyword$_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)
... 17 more

Hi,
Open Katalon Studio and goto Tools>Update WebDrivers> and select chrome browser

Have u check the url? The error said that Chrome cannot open with url: ‘Chrome’

thanks. problem solved