chromedriver needs to be upgraded to v2 to work with current chromium-browser builds.

[Joe Millenbach]

While using selenium code that worked fine with chromedriver v2.3 and v30 Chrome on x86 (but trying to run on an armhf system) I hit an error that looks very similar to https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=471

Exception:
WebDriverException: Message: u"Unknown command 'WaitForAllTabsToStopLoading'. Options: AcceptOrDismissAppModalDialog, ActionOnSSLBlockingPage, ActivateTab, AddBookmark, AddDomEventObserver, AppendTab, ApplyAccelerator, BringBrowserToFront, ClearEventQueue, CloseBrowserWindow, CloseTab, CreateNewAutomationProvider, DeleteCookie, DeleteCookieInBrowserContext, DoesAutomationObjectExist, DragAndDropFilePaths, ExecuteJavascript, ExecuteJavascriptInRenderView, GetActiveTabIndex, GetAppModalDialogMessage, GetBookmarkBarStatus, GetBookmarksAsJSON, GetBrowserInfo, GetBrowserWindowCount, GetChromeDriverAutomationVersion, GetCookies, GetCookiesInBrowserContext, GetDownloadDirectory, GetExtensionsInfo, GetIndicesFromTab, GetLocalStatePrefsInfo, GetMultiProfileInfo, GetNextEvent, GetPrefsInfo, GetProcessInfo, GetSecurityState, GetTabCount, GetTabIds, GetTabInfo, GetViews, GoBack, GoForward, InstallExtension, IsDownloadShelfVisible, IsFindInPageVisible, IsMenuCommandEnabled, IsPageActionVisible, IsTabIdValid, MaximizeView, NavigateToURL, OpenFindInPage, OpenNewBrowserWindow, OpenNewBrowserWindowWithNewProfile, OpenProfileWindow, OverrideGeoposition, RefreshPolicies, Reload, RemoveBookmark, RemoveEventObserver, ReparentBookmark, RunCommand, SendWebkitKeyEvent, SetBookmarkTitle, SetBookmarkURL, SetCookie, SetCookieInBrowserContext, SetDownloadShelfVisible, SetExtensionStateById, SetLocalStatePrefs, SetPrefs, SetViewBounds, SimulateAsanMemoryBug, TriggerBrowserActionById, TriggerPageActionById, UninstallExtensionById, UpdateExtensionsNow, WaitForBookmarkModelToLoad, WaitUntilNavigationCompletes, WebkitMouseButtonDown, WebkitMouseButtonUp, WebkitMouseClick, WebkitMouseDoubleClick, WebkitMouseDrag, WebkitMouseMove, AcceptCurrentFullscreenOrMouseLockRequest, AddOrEditSearchEngine, AddSavedPassword, CloseNotification, DenyCurrentFullscreenOrMouseLockRequest, DisablePlugin, EnablePlugin, FindInPage, GetAllNotifications, GetDownloadsInfo, GetFPS, GetHistoryInfo, GetInitialLoadTimes, GetNTPInfo, GetNavigationInfo, GetOmniboxInfo, GetPluginsInfo, GetSavedPasswords, GetSearchEngineInfo, GetV8HeapStats, ImportSettings, IsFullscreenBubbleDisplayed, IsFullscreenBubbleDisplayingButtons, IsFullscreenForBrowser, IsFullscreenForTab, IsFullscreenPermissionRequested, IsMouseLockPermissionRequested, IsMouseLocked, KillRendererProcess, LaunchApp, LoadSearchEngineInfo, OmniboxAcceptInput, OmniboxMovePopupSelection, PerformActionOnDownload, PerformActionOnInfobar, PerformActionOnSearchEngine, RemoveNTPMostVisitedThumbnail, RemoveSavedPassword, RestoreAllNTPMostVisitedThumbnails, SaveTabContents, SetAppLaunchType, SetOmniboxText, SetWindowDimensions, WaitForAllDownloadsToComplete, WaitForNotificationCount, "

The solution in the bug is "ChromeDriver 1 does not work with Chrome 29." Which means for Chromium v29 and above chromedriver2 code must be used to make the chromium-chromedriver package. I'm trying to run on armhf, so can't use the packaged version from Google.

I assume the new code could be grabbed from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/contributing (took a bit of poking around through invalid links to find).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Saikrishna Arcot (saiarcot895)]

Just to check, is this referring to the version returned if I run /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver in Terminal, or is it the Selenium version?

[Joe Millenbach (jmillenbach)]

I don't have it in front of me (at home...and this is on a work computer), but from what I remember the original chromedriver had version numbers that looked like the chromium build. With the current Ubuntu binary I saw v30... which roughly matches the current Chromium build version number on the same machine.

Current x86 chromedriver2 builds have a version like 2.6. I downloaded my x86 files from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html - found from http://chromedriver.googlecode.com , from https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list . There was a fork or new code base a few months back.

This is separate from the Selenium version.

[Joe Millenbach (jmillenbach)]

How can I test this? We'd really like this to work.

And was it correct that you changed chromium-browser, and not chromium-driver?

[Joe Millenbach (jmillenbach)]

A coworker found a PPA to test this with and it let our test script run (that worked on an x86 similar system). Would be great to release it to regular folks too :-)