Cannot automate browser in Android 6.0

The problem

The stock browser launches and quits immediately a few times before Appium gives up.

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.6.3
• Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable):
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: macOS 10.12.2
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 7.1.0
• Mobile platform/version under test: Android 6.0
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Emulator
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: Appium CLI

Details

I am not sure whether more explanation is necessary, but since the stock browser is called “Browser”, I am not sure why Chrome is mentioned. This is the error received on the client side:

unknown error: Chrome version must be >= 53.0.2785.0
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.25.426935 (820a95b0b81d33e42712f9198c215f703412e1a1),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.2 x86_64)

I have also tried to start Appium with the --chromedriver-executable argument using the latest version of chromedriver, just in case it would make a difference:

unknown error: Chrome version must be >= 53.0.2785.0
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.26.436421 (6c1a3ab469ad86fd49c8d97ede4a6b96a49ca5f6),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.2 x86_64)

Link to Appium logs

https://gist.github.com/SteffenL/3741126ad7ef12482b6a6dd64a725fb8

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

from selenium import webdriver

cap = {"browserName": "Browser", "platformName": "Android", "deviceName": "Android Emulator", "platformVersion": "6.0", "automationName": "Appium", "avd": "Nexus_5_6.0"}
driver = webdriver.Remote("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub", cap)
driver.get("http://www.seleniumhq.org/")
driver.quit()

[SteffenL]

Sorry for the delay. I can finally confirm that chromedriver version 2.20 works with the Android 6 emulator.

[rkavalap]

@SteffenL For every chromedriver version, there is a corresponding mapping for chrome version. You may want to look at the notes to see which version is most applicable http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.26/notes.txt