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Support for headless chrome

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Hi!

Since version 58, Chrome can run in headless mode. I wanted to try it out with the following code:

Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome, switches: %w[--disable-gpu --headless]

This resulted with Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: unknown error: unrecognized Chrome version: HeadlessChrome/58.0.3029.96 so I tried:

Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome, switches: %w[--disable-gpu --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222], port: 9222

But the result was Net::ReadTimeout: Net::ReadTimeout.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

KristianWindsorcommented, Oct 13, 2017

@lmtierney My bad. I was looking at this list of chromedrivers and was under the impression that 2.9 was newer than 2.33.

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lmtierneycommented, Oct 12, 2017

@Windso 2.9 is extremely old. 2.33 is the latest

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