How to run Google Chrome with Selenium RC?

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If I remember correctly, “*chrome” is used to launch a special mode of Firefox (a mode in which your application has more privilegies — with less security restrictions) ; so, the fact that it’s Firefox that is launched, and not Google Chrome, is normal.

If you want to launch Google Chrome, you will have to use something else than “*chrome“.

Using Selenium RC in interactive mode, with something like this :

$ java -jar selenium-server.jar -interactive

and using the getNewBrowserSession command not correctly :

cmd=getNewBrowserSession

I get the list of browsers is supports :

23:43:09.317 INFO - Got result: Failed to start new browser session: Browser not supported:
(Did you forget to add a *?)

Supported browsers include:
  *firefox
  *mock
  *firefoxproxy
  *pifirefox
  *chrome
  *iexploreproxy
  *iexplore
  *firefox3
  *safariproxy
  *googlechrome
  *konqueror
  *firefox2
  *safari
  *piiexplore
  *firefoxchrome
  *opera
  *iehta
  *custom
 on session null

So, I’m guessing you should be able to launch Google Chrome using “*googlechrome“ instead of “*chrome“.

I’m not on Windows, so I can’t try by myself… And I cannot find anything in the documentation to back me up… Still, with a bit of luck, this might help you…

Anyway, have fun !

As a sidenote : Google Chrome is not the one which invented the term “chrome”, actually ; it means plenty of things, like Chrome Mozilla or User Interface Chrome

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