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Version 114.0.5735.110 (Official Build) (32-bit)"
After I updated the Google Chrome Portable (manually delete the "App" folder and copy the "App" folder from the latest version of Google Chrome Portable downloaded from the homepage). I got this error.
The problem is that before I was able to run Google Chrome Portable with Selenium Python, but after updating and showing the above error. It can't run Selenium anymore.
I wonder if the error originates from Google Chrome Portable version 114, or is there another reason?
Please help me debug this, thank you very much. I wish you a good day.
Update: I just discovered, even when downloading the latest version from the homepage (currently 114.0.5735.110), it still shows the same error message as above.
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The updater never worked. It requires a local install. You will always see this message on the About page.
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Thanks for the reply, I wanted to ask how to run Google Chrome Portable with Selenium. I download Chrome Driver here and all 3 paths are not working: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
I have no familiarity with Selenium at all. I'd need some sort of an error message or something to assist. The error message you mention above is just what Google Chrome Portable always shows on its about page, nothing to do with Selenium and not an error. It would be illegal to combine Chrome with Selenium and redistribute it.
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I just need your help with a few simple commands with Selenium Python, Google Chrome Portable and Chrome Driver. Hope you can try to help me out (the error here is that it loads the page extremely slowly and almost freezes, I don't know if it's the fault of Selenium, Chrome Portable or Chrome Driver). Here is a simple code with Python and it runs so slow that it freezes.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=GoogleChromePortable\\Data\\profile")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service('pathtoChromeDriver\\chromedriver.exe'),options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com/search?q=my+ip")
You can download Chrome Driver download here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
By the way, may I ask, if I want to download older versions of Google Chrome Portable, where should I download it? Because when I go to the homepage I always see the latest version, maybe the error comes from the selenium as well as the chrome driver not supporting the latest version.
Can you combine Google Chrome Portable with Selenium? I see a lot of unknown errors arising every time I update to the new Google Chrome Portable version.
I think it needs to be compatible with Selenium for it to work.
Sorry for the rush, but I need Selenium running with Google Chrome Portable to complete a job application demo presentation.