I have been looking but haven't found much. I was wondering if there is any way of forcing an update, for the three above applications via the command line (silently) with Windows.
Ideally this would also have the ability of checking which version it was /is on and if the update was successful.
For Flash and Chrome official Msi files (which support a silent installatie or update) are available. For Firefox command line arguments are available for the installer for a silent install.
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Google Chrome on my machine recently got updated to v44.
I'm working with Selenium WebDriver on Chrome and as soon as I updated Chrome, all my tests went dead. I use Chromedriver v2.16. My partner's PC has Chrome v42.0.2311.90 and Chromedriver v2.16. And tests run fine on his machine. Now, based on this I'm pretty sure the problem is probably not with Chromedriver.
So, how can I downgrade to Chrome 42.0.2311.90?
I've tried using an offline installer from here:
Google Chrome Alternate Offline Installer
But this always gives me the latest version to install i.e. v44.
The release that I need can be found here:
Google Chrome v42.0.2311.90 Stable Channel Update
Uninstall your current chrome version.
Remove all Chrome data for current version from: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome
Download your particular version from chrome_installer.
Disable chrome updates using instructions given on this link.
Following steps help you to install your desired google chrome version :
1 - Uninstall your current google chrome version.
2 - Download your desired google chrome version from here : Google Chrome Download
3 - Restart PC once so if any registry or temp file stored of previous google chrome then it will get refresh.
4 - Install your downloaded google chrome. And then turn off automatic chrome update.
I struggled with this same problem on Mac, trying to downgrade, and stay downgraded from Chrome 53 to 52 due to a serious bug affecting webaudio.
None of the other recommendation appear to apply any more (or on Mac OS X at least). The app attempts to upgrade itself and there doesn't be a way to configure that in a "Chrome-friendly" way.
Eventually I resorted to force...
Close and uninstall Chrome
Edit your /etc/hosts file to prevent update checks from working by overriding the DNS entry:
0.0.0.0 tools.google.com
Find and download an old release. This is left as an exercise, this was actually hard and fraught with fear of bad binaries. I was able to cross-reference MD5s from one site that didn't have downloads with another that had downloads.
Install and run the older version
Important: Check the "About" page, and point and laugh at Chrome's attempts to check in.
This is how you can use an older chrome version "in general":
Uninstall your current chrome
Install the chrome version you desire
DO NOT open chrome!! after installation
Instead disable auto-updates like here or here
Only then may you work with your desired chrome browser version
As for how to get a specific older version:
You need to google, search forums or try sites like this. It's just "grunt work" to find the version you are looking for. If you're extremely unlucky, the very version you need might even not be around any more.
If you are running on a windows machine you can leverage the package manager chocolatey, this is how we I'm doing it from Jenkins, we call a powershell that uninstalls a previous version and install a specific one: From a powershell ide script window, you need to have installed the modules for chocolatey that is a small price to pay for a lot of benefit:
choco install googlechrome --version 62.0.3202.94 -y
Then to prevent Chrome to self update I am performing this steps:
1. Verify Chrome's current version.
(Get-Item (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe').'(Default)').VersionInfo
Install the version I'm aiming for:
choco install googlechrome --version 62.0.3202.94 -y
You can look for available versions here:
https://chocolatey.org/packages/GoogleChrome
(Find Version History Section)
Kill GoogleCrashHandler.exe in any of its variants 32 or 64 bits or both.
Delete the Directories
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update and
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\CrashReporter
You will loose the ability to auto update (which is the whole purpose right) and
you will loose the ability to send crash reports and piggy back on that executable to update against your will whenever google deems convenient.
5.Disable Chrome Services
I want to run some test using selenium standalone server on Google Chrome but i need to pass some ChromeOptions to the chrome driver from command line
Anybody has an idea of how can i do that?
Selenium Core, which is what you are referring to, was released before Chrome existed. Support for Chrome was added later. What you are asking for was never supported, and with Selenium Core deprecated several years back, it will probably never be supported.
One possible workaround is to set the desired options in the Chrome profile.
Another options, although much more painful, is to move up to Selenium WebDriver.
I'm trying to run chrome 30, in Linux, from the command line (executing google-chrome file of the version downloaded and unpacked in a folder).
If i run it without the option --no-sandbox the result is the following
[24419:24419:1016/012228:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(142)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /home/user/user.browsers/chrome-30/opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
./chrome-30.sh: line 5: 24419 Aborted (core dumped) $CHROME_FOLDER/google-chrome
If I run it with the option --no-sandbox, following also this procedure to configure it, the result is the error:
È stata creata una nuova finestra nella sessione corrente del browser.
[1016/012454:ERROR:nacl_helper_linux.cc(269)] NaCl helper process running without a sandbox!
Most likely you need to configure your SUID sandbox correctly
This last procedure works fine with chrome v31.
Any help?
If you have root access, you should set up the SUID sandbox as per these instructions, and run without the --no-sandbox option.
If you don't have root access, you cannot set up a SUID sandbox and you have to use the --no-sandbox option, but only use it for testing because it is a security risk.
In your case, it looks like you tried running a new Chrome window with --no-sandbox while another session was already running (that's what the message in Italian says). Try closing the existing session before starting a new one. To close the existing session, find the Chrome icon in the system tray, right click it and choose Exit. If you don't see the system tray icon, you can also try killall google-chrome or killall chromium, depending on which version you're using.
This error message...
[24419:24419:1016/012228:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(142)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly.
Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now.
You need to make sure that /home/user/user.browsers/chrome-30/opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
./chrome-30.sh: line 5: 24419 Aborted (core dumped) $CHROME_FOLDER/google-chrome
...implies that the program was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session.
As per the discussion in Issue 400842: Chromium, if you have installed Chromium v35 (or later) and your cpu doesn't have the SSE2 instruction set, e.g. AthlonXP, Pentium III, etc, then Chromium can't be initiated successfully. All the new Chromium browsers from version 35 onwards need SSE2. Any Chromium version earlier than 35 should run on such a system without any issue.
To enforce these measures, Chromium team have closed the issue as Status: WontFix and mentioned:
If you really want to build Chromium without SSE2, you are welcome to apply your own patches and build your own browser however you like, but the Chromium project is not accepting patches to build without SSE2.
Further, this feature was successfully tested in AMD Athlon 3400+ desktop with Lubuntu 14.04.2 and Chrome seems to work fine. But on an older AMD Athlon 1300 without SSE, Chrome now courteously displays a message that "my hardware does not support it".
In mac you can run the below command to run the chrome in sandbox mode. This will open the chrome and supress the security settings. This can be used for testing API's etc from angular or ionic
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir=$HOME/chrome-in-sandbox-mode
Since the latest release of Google Chrome browser version 21.* and Selenium Chrome Driver version 22.* , the special command line switch “--disable-web-security” which we have been using to test our iframes with different domain is no longer supported (deprecated).Is there any workaround for the same to automate our frame which is in different domain in Chrome browser?
Our existing functional Automation framework completely depends on this switch (--disable-web-security).Response would be appreciated.
You don't need a workaround, the flag still works, what's new is the warning.
I just performed a test using jQuery to send an AJAX request to another domain and it worked using the command-line flag, and it didn't when not using it.
It would be nice to have a way to disable the "yellow infobar", though.
(I'm running Chrome 21.0.1180.60).
You might also have to kill all running instances of the Chrome.exe running in the background before using the flag.
Yes. What turned out to be the issue is even after you close chrome... there is a chrome.exe process running. Kill it using taskmanager and the flag will work even in version 28
I use the stable version of Google Chrome as my default browser on my system. I now need to work on a project requiring the development version of Chrome, yet I do not wish to replace my system install of Chrome.
Does there exist a standalone package of Chome which can be unpacked into a folder and executed entirely from there? Ie, it should not require anything to be installed, it should not touch the profile associated with my installed version of Chrome. I should be able to download different versions of this into different folders, and be sure that they do not conflict with each other..
(Ideally we could package up prototype builds complete with a copy of this version of Chrome. These packages would then be as self contained as a desktop application...)
You could download the Chromium flavour (which is the open source browser that runs Google Chrome). You can download the latest and greatest from:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/LATEST/
If you have specific dates/revision that you want to download, you can pick them from:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/
That will not interfere with the current version of Chrome, instead it will be using Chromium folder structure (chrome replaced with chromium everywhere).
Simply get the portable version, it does what as you need.
As an answer above, you could get Chromium (portable) which also includes chromedriver from chromium snapshots page.
Pick one with the biggest number (scroll down):
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Win_x64/
If the link is dead, there is always a solution to build it from source code, it's a benefit of open source application.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#Build-Chromium
Chromium home page:
https://www.chromium.org/
Hope it helps!
I believe Chrome on Windows installs itself into the Application Data (/Users on Win7) folder of a user. While I can't test this at the moment, try creating a new user account, install Chrome, then log into your other account. Then try running both at the same time. Might be a bit hard to find the executable.
Another option would be to run it in a VM. More expensive versions of Win7 have this somewhat built-in (you need to download an XP image from Microsoft, but the VM software is pre-installed, I think) but you can also install VirtualBox + your own ISO. On a decent computer system, you shouldn't get too much of a performance hit.
A really silly way of doing this is installing the multiple concurrent users Remote Desktop hack, Remote Desktopping to your own computer (if that's possible) and running the second Chrome install as a different user.