Chrome browser not getting invoked through Selenium

Question

Chrome browser version: 43.0.2357.134 m

Selenium version: selenium-java-3.0.0-beta2

Code:

package Selenium_Practice;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Launch_NewGen {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\Selenium_Practice\\EXEs\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("http://google.com");

}

Error:

Starting ChromeDriver 2.23.409699 (49b0fa931cda1caad0ae15b7d1b68004acd05129) on port 19613 Only local connections are allowed. Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome version must be >= 51.0.2704.0 (Driver info: chromedriver=2.23.409699 (49b0fa931cda1caad0ae15b7d1b68004acd05129),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 1.56 seconds Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: '2aa21c1', time: '2016-08-02 14:59:43 -0700' System info: host: 'LON-EKNATHDVM', ip: '10.63.23.191', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_102' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:683) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:247) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:130) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:143) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:170) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:159) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:116) at Selenium_Practice.Launch_NewGen.main(Launch_NewGen.java:17)

Is this the case that chrome browser version is not supportive? Is there any possible resolution without upgrading Chrome browser?

As exception clearly states you need to upgrade your chrome version as well...otherwise downgrade your selenium version..:) — Saurabh Gaur
In my case selenium 3.0 works ok, but with the latest chrome browser version and the latest chromedriver 2.23. Update chrome browser or use older version of selenium and possible chromedriver. For the latest selenium i see that you need to specify the driver first and after the -jar selenium-server.jar option — lauda

Saurabh Gaur Saurabh Gaur · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-10T05:21:16

Actually you are using beta version of selenium 3.0, in this might be many bugs. The final selenium 3.0 will be release later, so I would suggest to you downgrade you selenium version to 2.53.1 and work with it until final version of selenium 3.0 would not be released.

Or If you want to work with this selenium 3.0 beta version then you need to upgrade your chrome browser to latest version and download the latest chromedriver as well.

Chrome browser not getting invoked through Selenium

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