My chrome version got updated automatically to 115 version and when i run webdriver-manager update command why its downloading 114 version of chrome?

Question

My chrome version got updated automatically to 115 version and when i run webdriver-manager update command why its downloading 114 version of chrome? Even i tried to download 115 version directly and paste it in webdriver manager and run webdriver-manager start command still it automatically picks 114 version exe even when that file is deleted.

Even i tried to download 115 version directly and paste it in webdriver manager and run webdriver-manager start command still it automatically picks 114 version exe even when that file is deleted.

Answer 1

The problem lies with the fact that Chrome-Drivers from v115, v116 and onwards, moved to new location and released in-sync with chromium.

Note: This works if you are using protractor & jasmine via npm

The following solution should work until webdriver-manager gets updated

1. Instead of webdriver-manager use chromedriver. Install chromedriver on your project using the following command

   npm install chromedriver --save

2. Update your protractor chrome initialization in to use this binary instead of the default from webdriver-manager's location (this is important step)

   config.chromeDriver = './node_modules/chromedriver/bin/chromedriver';

Run your e2e tests as usual