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ChromeDriver v90 does not give correct URL when connecting to remote-debugging port through the ChromeDriverService

We use ChromeDriver in C# to connect to existing instances of Chrome that have the remote debugging port 9222 set. Here is how we connect:
var svc = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(path);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.DebuggerAddress = "127.0.0.1:9222";
var driver = new ChromeDriver(svc, options);
var url = driver.Url;
The problem is that the value of driver.Url is not what it used to be when using ChromeDriver version 88.
At that point and all earlier versions, driver.Url was the value of the URL for the current active tab in Chrome. So if Chrome had five tabs open and tab 4 is active, the Url was that of tab 4. And that made sense.
Once we upgraded to version 90 that is no longer the case. It appears that the value of Url is... well it's not clear. Sometimes the last active tab, sometimes some other tab, sometimes the first. I do not see a pattern.
Is this an error in ChromeDriver? In the past, whatever was the active tab was the one that driver.Url yielded. Now it's indeterminate which wreaks havoc with our code.
Update: If I have two tabs open, then the driver.Url and driver.Title are for the tab that was just prior active. So always the other tab. With 3 tabs it may be the 2nd to the last active tab. This feels like a off-by-one error within an internal array of tabs.

I had the same problem. I solved it using the method suggested here
ChromeDriverService driverService =
ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService();
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.DebuggerAddress = "127.0.0.1:9222";
var driver = new ChromeDriver(driverService, options);
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles[0]); // Switch to the recently opened tab
MessageBox.Show("driver.Url: " + driver.Url);

Setting ChromeOptions User Data Not Working On Server C# Selenium [duplicate]

I am attempting to load a chrome browser with selenium using my existing account and settings from my profile.
I can get this working using ChromeOptions to set the userdatadir and profile directory. This loads the browser with my profile like i want, but the browser then hangs for 60 seconds and times out without advancing through any more of the automation.
If I don't use the user data dir and profile settings, it works fine but doesn't use my profile.
The reading I've done points to not being able to have more than one browser open at a time with the same profile so I made sure nothing was open while I ran the program. It still hangs for 60 seconds even without another browser open.
m_Options = new ChromeOptions();
m_Options.AddArgument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data");
m_Options.AddArgument("--profile-directory=Default");
m_Options.AddArgument("--disable-extensions");
m_Driver = new ChromeDriver(#"pathtoexe", m_Options);
m_Driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("somesite");
It always hangs on the GoToUrl. I'm not sure what else to try.

As per your code trials you were trying to load the Default Chrome Profile which will be against all the best practices as the Default Chrome Profile may contain either of the following:
Extensions
Bookmarks
Browsing History
etc
So the Default Chrome Profile may not be in compliance with you Test Specification and may raise exception while loading. Hence you should always use a customized Chrome Profile as below.
To create and open a new Chrome Profile you need to follow the following steps :
Open Chrome browser, click on the Side Menu and click on Settings on which the url chrome://settings/ opens up.
In People section, click on Manage other people on which a popup comes up.
Click on ADD PERSON, provide the person name, select an icon, keep the item Create a desktop shortcut for this user checked and click on ADD button.
Your new profile gets created.
Snapshot of a new profile SeLeNiUm
Now a desktop icon will be created as SeLeNiUm - Chrome
From the properties of the desktop icon SeLeNiUm - Chrome get the name of the profile directory. e.g. --profile-directory="Profile 2"
Get the absolute path of the profile-directory in your system as follows :
C:\\Users\\Thranor\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Profile 2
Now pass the value of profile-directory through an instance of ChromeOptions with AddArgument method along with key user-data-dir as follows :
m_Options = new ChromeOptions();
m_Options.AddArgument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Profile 2");
m_Options.AddArgument("--disable-extensions");
m_Driver = new ChromeDriver(#"pathtoexe", m_Options);
m_Driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("somesite");
Execute your Test
Observe Chrome gets initialized with the Chrome Profile as SeLeNiUm

If you want to run Chrome using your default profile (cause you need a extension), you need to run your script using another browser, like Microsoft Edge or Microsoft IE and your code will lunch a Chrome instance.
My Code in PHP:
namespace Facebook\WebDriver;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\DesiredCapabilities;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeOptions;
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
$host = 'http://localhost:4444/';
$options = new ChromeOptions();
$options->addArguments(array(
'--user-data-dir=C:\Users\paulo\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data',
'--profile-directory=Default',
'--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36'
));
$caps = DesiredCapabilities::chrome();
$caps->setCapability(ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options);
$caps->setPlatform("Windows");
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host, $caps);
$driver ->manage()->window()->maximize();
$driver->get('https://www.google.com/');
// your code goes here.
$driver->quit();

i guys, in my enviroment with chrome 63 and selenum for control, i have find same problem (60 second on wait for open webpage).
To fix i have find a way by setting a default webpage in chrome ./[user-data-dir]/[Profile]/Preferences file, this is a json data need to insert in "Preferences" file for obtain result
...
"session":{
"restore_on_startup":4,
"startup_urls":[
"http://localhost/test1"
]
}
...
For set "Preferences" from selenium i have use this sample code
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
//set my user data dir
chromeOptions.addArguments("--user-data-dir=/usr/chromeDataDir/");
//start create data structure to for insert json in "Preferences" file
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("session.restore_on_startup", 4);
List<String> urlList = new ArrayList<String>();
urlList.add("http://localhost/test1");
prefs.put("session.startup_urls", urlList);
//set in chromeOptions data structure
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
//start chrome
ChromeDriver chromeDriver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
//this get command for open web page, response instant
chromeDriver.get("http://localhost/test2")
i have find information here https://chromedriver.chromium.org/capabilities

Firefox opening wrong profile with selenium c#

I'm using selenium 3.14 with geckodriver 0.24, I'm using following code to run the existing profiles I have already created for my different accounts.
FirefoxOptions firefoxOptions = new FirefoxOptions();
firefoxOptions.Proxy = pro; //my proxy object
firefoxOptions.AddArgument("-profile " + path); //path to the profile
FirefoxDriverService ffDriverService = FirefoxDriverService.CreateDefaultService();
ffDriverService.BrowserCommunicationPort = 2828;
PropertiesCollection.Driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffDriverService, firefoxOptions);
I have multiple profiles each with a different proxy. Right now, the browser is started and everything works very well for the first profile, but once I dispose the browser and start a new one with new profile and proxy, the driver opens the same last browser. I've tried many solutions and have changed selenium to old versions but no luck.
One thing I noticed in the console is that when driver opens the browser, it runs a command on console like this:
1561625708285 mozrunner::runner INFO Running command: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" "-marionette" "-profile C:\\Users\\Usr\\Desktop\\fprofiles\\pf1" "-foreground" "-no-remote"
if I run this command from cmd the profile issue remains there:
"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" "-marionette" "-profile C:\\Users\\Usr\\Desktop\\fprofiles\\pf1" "-foreground" "-no-remote"
If I remove the " from command and make it complete text it will look like this
"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" -marionette -profile C:\\Users\\Usr\\Desktop\\fprofiles\\pf1 -foreground -no-remote
I cloned the selenium project of OpenQA and tried to debug there but that also uses geckodriver.exe and I guess geckodriver.exe is responsible for getting arguments and passing to firefox.
Last but the least option will be to compile geckodriver(which has been developed in RUST) once again as per my consent but the programming language is RUST and that's going to be a long long job for achieving what I need.
Has anyone faced the same problem? How can I get it fixed?

Try loading browser profile based on it's name. An example with profile called 'selenium_profile':
public static WebDriver driver;
public static String driverPath = "C:\\Users\\pburgr\\Desktop\\selenium-tests\\FF_driver_0_23\\geckodriver.exe";
public static WebDriver startFF() {
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
ProfilesIni allProfiles = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile selenium_profile = allProfiles.getProfile("selenium_profile");
options.setProfile(selenium_profile);
options.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", driverPath);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
return driver;
}
It must not be static so you can parse name of desired profile in argument.

How to avoid 'This type of file can harm your computer' pop up in chrome autoamtion using selenium

I am using selenium to automate website filling in chrome. When I download exe or XML files I am getting a popup 'This type of file can harm your computer' with keep and discard options. How to disable this programmatically ?
I am implementing this in c#,
I have tried,
chromeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference("disable-popup-blocking", "true")
But this is not working for me.
How to disable this popup ?
If not possible how to accept the warning ?
Please help me.

To disable the message, you need to set the preference safebrowsing.enabled to true. Here is a working example with CSharp:
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddUserProfilePreference("download.default_directory", "C:\\Downloads");
options.AddUserProfilePreference("download.prompt_for_download", false);
options.AddUserProfilePreference("download.directory_upgrade", true);
options.AddUserProfilePreference("safebrowsing.enabled", true);
var driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1602.exe");
And for a description of the preferences:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/chrome/common/pref_names.cc

Probably what you need is change
chromeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference("disable-popup-blocking", "true") // disables blocking the popup
to
chromeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference("disable-popup-blocking", "false") // enables blocking the popup
instead to avoid the popup window.
Edit : In case you are getting stuck with the harmful file contents, you can try and set an experimental chrome options using :
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("safebrowsing.enabled", "true");
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
Quoting a sample from the doc here :
Set a Chrome preference
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
Date - 4 June,2016 [C#]
Went through few links and could figure this out that .Net still doesn't have an setExperimentalOption preferences along with the ChromeOptions. So, one of the way to Add Argument to the ChromeOptions using C# with the flags listed here would be :
chromeOptions.AddArgument("--safebrowsing-disable-download-protection");
Disables safebrowsing feature that checks download url and downloads
content's hash to make sure the content are not malicious.
Date - 4 June,2016 [JAVA]
The document here quotes it as :
public void setExperimentalOption(java.lang.String name,
java.lang.Object value)
Sets an experimental option. Useful for new ChromeDriver options not yet
exposed through the ChromeOptions API.

PhantomJS with Selenium Grid 2 - how to disable phantomjsdriver.log?

I have been trying to find this somewhere in the documentation, but can't seem to find anything relevant - could anybody share how to disable the logs created by a Selenium Grid node, in the file phantomjsdriver.log, (or if not, only write at a given level, e.g ERROR or WARN)?
I've come across an issue recently where WebDriver will run fine for a while using PhantomJS remotely via Selenium Grid, but after some time there seems to be a bug which causes a StackOverflowException to be thrown when trying to interact with driver instances - which I think I've tracked down to the size of the phantomjsdriver.log file where the Grid Node runs. This happens when the log file is around 600MB in size. Obviously this causes my nodes to become unusable after some time.
Right now, I am creating my PhantomJS remote WebDriver in the following way:
public static IWebDriver CreatePhantomGridDriver(string hubAddress)
{
if (hubAddress == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException(nameof(hubAddress));
}
PhantomJSOptions opts = new PhantomJSOptions();
opts.AddAdditionalCapability("phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.65 Safari/537.36");
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri(hubAddress), opts.ToCapabilities());
driver.Manage().Timeouts().SetPageLoadTimeout(new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0));
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 1));
return driver;
}
I am using selenium-server-standalone-2.52.0 for my Grid, and it has 2 nodes registered, each exposing 8 PhantomJS drivers: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.52.0.jar -role node -hub http://MySeleniumGridHubServer:4444/grid/register -port 5556 -browser browserName=phantomjs,version=1.9.8.0,platform=ANY,maxInstances=8 -timeout 60 -maxSession 100
If there is some way that I can disable the phantomjsdriver.log file at the time that I start the node via command line, that would be ideal!
Additionally, there seem to be a number of features exposed by PhantomJSOptions and the PhantomJSDriverService classes, but they don't seem to be able to be used together to create a driver instance, and both expose a different set of properties!
Thanks