window.chrome.runtime not available in chrome driver.

[yno...@gmail.com]

When running the automation on the web app,
we were seeing that the app gets stuck at a certain page and doesn't load further.
We also notice a javascript error - window.chrome.runtime undefined.

Dev mentioned that they were using this in their js.

Steps to reproduce -
1. Start the selenium server with chrome driver.
java -jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=chromedriver selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar

2. Go to http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub and create a new chrome session.
3. Open the console in this chrome session and enter window.chrome.runtime, this doesn't seem to be available.

If you open a regular chrome window, open the console and enter window.chrome.runtime - this is available.

Is there anyway to include window.chrome.runtime in the chrome session started by Selenium ?

[bkso...@gmail.com]

hey,
I am facing the same issue as well.
Did you happen to find a solution for this?

Thanks

[gmani...@google.com]

In order to make 'chrome.runtime' API work in Chrome launched by Chromedriver, you would need exclude switch "--test-type".

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Arrays.asList("test-type"));

But excluding this switch will show info bars "You are using unsupported commang line flag.... " . You can disable such info bars by passing "--disable-infobar" switch.

options.addArguments("disable-infobars");

[ben.a...@gmail.com]

this worked for me...

capabilities = WebDriver.Capabilities.chrome().set('chromeOptions', {
args: [
'disable-infobars'
],
excludeSwitches: [
'test-type' // adds chrome.runtime object
]
}),
driver = new WebDriver.Builder()
.forBrowser('chrome')
.withCapabilities(capabilities)
.build()

[jawa...@google.com]

Was running into the same issue with a python based test.
Fixed the test by adding the following to my test setup.

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['test-type'])

[Leo Poniard]

Hey,

I have exactly the same problem, 

Which got solved with :

chrome_options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['test-type'])

But doesn't seem compatible with running the driver in headless mode :

chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")

(in headless mode, getting an empty page)

Did anyone had the problem before ?

Thank you