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Disable developer mode extensions pop up in Chrome

The official way to disable the popup is this: Pack your extension: go to chrome://extensions, check Developer mode and click Pack extension Install the extension by dragging and dropping the .crx file into the chrome://extensions page. You’ll get an “Unsupported extensions disabled” popup if you try restarting Chrome at this point. Then for Windows 7 or Windows 8: Download Chrome group policy templates here Copy [zip]\windows\admx\chrome.admx to c:\windows\policydefinitions Copy [zip]\windows\admx\[yourlanguage]\chrome.adml to c:\windows\policydefinitions\[yourlanguage]\chrome.adml (not c:\windows\[yourlanguage]) … Read more

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81

I solved these kinds of problems using the webdrive manager. You can automatically use the correct chromedriver by using the webdrive-manager. Install the webdrive-manager: Then use the driver in python as follows This answer is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/52878725/10741023

When running WebDriver with Chrome browser, getting message, “Only local connections are allowed” even though browser launches properly

This is an informational message only. What the message is telling you is that the chromedriver executable will only accept connections from the local machine. Most driver implementations (the Chrome driver and the IE driver for sure) create a HTTP server. The language bindings (Java, Python, Ruby, .NET, etc.) all use a JSON-over-HTTP protocol to … Read more

Running Selenium with Headless Chrome Webdriver

To run chrome-headless just add –headless via chrome_options.add_argument, i.e.: So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my script faster. Try using chrome options like –disable-extensions or –disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn’t count with much improvement. References: headless-chrome Note: As of today, when running chrome headless on Windows., you should include the –disable-gpu flag See crbug.com/737678

selenium – chromedriver executable needs to be in PATH

You can download ChromeDriver here: https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/ Then you have multiple options: add it to your system path put it in the same directory as your python script specify the location directly via executable_path driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=’C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe’)

SBOX_FATAL_MEMORY_EXCEEDED error shown when Chromedriver turned 1800-1900 pages using Selenium

This error… …implies that there is a huge memory consumption issue in Chrome that cause tabs to crash with SBOX_FATAL_MEMORY_EXCEEDED error. Deep Dive As per the article SBOX FATAL MEMORY EXCEEDED constantly and chrome is using large amounts of memory this issue of Chrome consuming huge memory is observed with all of the following instances: Google Chrome … Read more