Does Chrome driver still support custom chrome install location?

[bp]

Is webdriver.chrome.bin deprecated as of RC2?

webdriver.chrome.driver seems to be just the location of the per
platform exectuable, but the actual install of Chrome could be in a
custom location. Can we still specify that location using
webdriver.chrome.bin, or is that irrelevant now?

The documentation says chrome is expected to be installed in a
standard location

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver#Requirements

Does this meant the ability to customize chrome install location is
now lost?

[Jason Leyba]

This can be done using DesiredCapabilities.

DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

cap.setCapability("chrome.bin", "/full/path/to/chrome.exe");

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(cap);

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[Pawel Marek]

Hi Jason,

I have similar problem as bp - I can't use Chrome in my tests, as a
result I have:

SetUp : OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The file C:\Users\pawelm
\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\SkyscannerRC\SkyscannerRC\bin
\Debug\chromedriver.exe does not exist.

I've also tried your solution, but it seems to me that there is a
problem, because in third line we cannot add parameter:

DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.Chrome();
cap.SetCapability("chrome.bin", "C:\\Users\\pawelm\\AppData\\Local\
\Google\\Chrome\\Application");

IWebDriver driverd = new ChromeDriver(cap); <- we can;t add here
parameter

So there is a possibility to use chrome with webdriver RC2?

Cheers,
Pawel

[bp]

I tried this and it did not work, it continues to launch chrome from
the standard location even though I pass it my custom chrome exe
location. It almost looks like the executable is controlling which
file to launch, and explorin the code base I don't see how the
chrome.bin value is being used if at all.

[Jim Evans]

Nope, it's an oversight in the .NET bindings that the ChromeDriver
doesn't have a constructor overload that takes an ICapabilities object
as a parameter. This has just been corrected, but the fix is not in
2.0rc3.

--Jim

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[bp]

Jim, does this mean this bug is only on Windows (since you mentioned .NET) bindings. I have yet to try this on a Mac, but will the custom location work on Mac? that would let me test stable and canary at the same time

[Jim Evans]

I've no idea. The bug (which was fixed for 2.0 final) I'm talking
about is specifically in the .NET language bindings. That bug is that
there was no constructor overload of the ChromeDriver class that
allowed you to pass in a custom capabilities object. If the custom
path to Chrome is not working and you're using the Java bindings to
work on OS X, then I'd have to think maybe the problem is somewhere in
the ChromeDriver executable.

[Ravindra Yadav]

You can use option to set binary like:

options.setBinary(new File(path to your custom chrome installed location)


thanks