How to remove chrome browser instance from task manager

[Abhijit Biradar]

Hi Users,

I have a query regarding how to remove chrome browser instance from task manager.

When i close selenium web driver instance then i was expecting that it should close browser instance from task manger also but didn't happen then i have tried below code but no luck. so, can any one please suggest how to close chrome browser instance from task manger.

I wanted to close this from task manager explicitly because when i run automation script many times then task manager keeps all those browser instances open in his list & because of that application get slow.

code snippet:

public static void CloseWebDriver()

{

            log.Info("WebDriver is closing");

            driver.Close();

            log.Info("Quiting WebDriver");

            driver.Quit();

            log.Info("Disposing WebDriver");

            driver.Dispose();

            Process[] chromeDriverProcesses = Process.GetProcessesByName("chromedriver");

            foreach (var chromeDriverProcess in chromeDriverProcesses)

            {

                chromeDriverProcess.Kill();

            }

}

[Lajish Lakshmanan]

Hi Abhijit,

   You can use this java command to kill any windows process by its name.

   WindowsUtils.killByName("chromedriver(2.25).exe");

   

  In my machine, chromedriver instance shown as 'chromedriver(2.25).exe'. And one more thing, always put this statement inside a try-catch block because sometimes driver.quit(); kills this process.

  Regards,

  Lajish Lakshmanan