SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 97 Current browser version is 100.0.4896.75

Question

I'm trying to start a selenium webdriverinstance, but I get this error:

SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 97 Current browser version is 100.0.4896.75 with binary path *path here*

I already tried using chromium 98, it works, but a new vulnerability was found in version 100 and i would like to update

Answer 1

On a mac M1, I was getting the following error:

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::SessionNotCreatedError:
        session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 103
        Current browser version is 105.0.5195.125 with binary path /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
          (Driver info: chromedriver=103.0.5060.134 (8ec6fce403b3feb0869b0732eda8bd95011d333c-refs/branch-heads/5060@{#1262}),platform=Mac OS X 12.5.1 arm64)

I simply upgraded the chromedriver using brew and it fixed the issue for me.

brew upgrade chromeDriver

Answer 2

This error message...

SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 97 Current browser version is 100.0.4896.75 with binary path...

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. google-chrome session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

• You are using chrome=100.0.4896.75
• You are using chromedriver=97.0
• Release Notes of chromedriver=97.0 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 97

So there is a clear mismatch between chromedriver=97.0 and the chrome=100.0.4896.75

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Solution

Ensure that:

• ChromeDriver is updated to ChromeDriver v100.0.4896.60 level which matches to chrome=100.0.4896.75.