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!

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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

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

thanks. problem solved