Is there a Selenium WebDriver available for the Microsoft Edge browser?

Yes, there is a WebDriver implementation for Microsoft Edge. Its initial availability was announced on 23 July 2015. Language bindings in the Selenium open source project have been updated to take advantage of this driver implementation, and those updates have been released in Selenium 2.47. Note that the Java language bindings were re-released as 2.47.1 … Read more

Security Considerations – ChromeDriver – Webdriver for Chrome

How Google Chrome Browser Works In the article Chrome Browser Security @STEPHANIE CRAWFORD mentioned, Google has leveraged its power as a search engine by creating its Safe Browsing technology which will automatically warn you if Chrome detects that a site you’re visiting contains malware or phishing. Chrome deploys this security measure through a unique security … Read more

Get PID of Browser launched by selenium

Using the Python API, it’s pretty simple: from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.Firefox() print browser.binary.process.pid # browser.binary.process is a Popen object… If you’re using Chrome, it’s a little more complex, you go via a chromedriver process: c = webdriver.Chrome() c.service.process # is a Popen instance for the chromedriver process import psutil p = psutil.Process(c.service.process.pid) … Read more

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 80

This error message… selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 80 …implies that the ChromeDriver v80.0 was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session. Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows: You mentioned about using … Read more

Selenium use chrome on Colab got unexpectedly exited

These log messages… Get:1 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [1,159 kB] Get:2 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [83.6 MB] Get:3 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser-l10n all 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [5,230 kB] Get:4 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-chromedriver amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [5,594 kB] … … Setting up chromium-chromedriver (108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5) … Setting up chromium-browser-l10n (108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5) … Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) … Processing triggers … Read more