Chrome Launches Google Brazil!

In your Start Browser command, be sure to turn on “Load user profile.”  

Also, be sure to close any open instances of Chrome, or you’ll get this error message:

System.Exception: Fail to start Chrome navigator —> OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: invalid argument: user data directory is already in use, please specify a unique value for –user-data-dir argument, or don’t use –user-data-dir

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.UnpackAndThrowOnError(Response errorResponse)

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.StartSession(ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)

   at OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver..ctor(ChromeDriverService service, ChromeOptions options, TimeSpan commandTimeout)

   at WDG.Automation.Browser.AutomationBrowser.<CreateChromeInstance>d__35.MoveNext()

— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —

   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

   at WDG.Automation.Browser.BrowserInstance.<CreateBrowserInstace>d__1.MoveNext()

— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —

   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

   at WDG.Automation.Browser.WebStartCommand.<CreateBrowser>d__75.MoveNext()

   — End of inner exception stack trace —

   at WDG.Automation.Browser.WebStartCommand.<CreateBrowser>d__75.MoveNext()

— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —

   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

   at WDG.Automation.Browser.WebStartCommand.<Execute>d__74.MoveNext()

— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —

   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

   at WDG.Automation.Language.ErrorHandler.QxYjsUsSfJ8Ppa2c0A9(Object )

   at WDG.Automation.Language.ErrorHandler.JS7PK8C2uJ(Exception  )

   at WDG.Automation.Language.ErrorHandler.HandleExecutionExceptionIfNeeded(Exception exception, IAutomationCommand command)

   at WDG.Automation.Language.CommandInterpreter.<Run>d__12.aSspMlbQaFx6MjV3Xot(Object , Object , Object )

   at WDG.Automation.Language.CommandInterpreter.<Run>d__12.MoveNext()

— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —

   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

   at WDG.Automation.Language.ScriptInterpreter.<RunCore>d__17.MoveNext()

I suspect they will have a fix for this soon, as it creates a lot of problems with not being able to open multiple instances of Chrome.  As I said, Chrome has to be closed before running the Start Browser command, regardless of whether you opened it or the bot opened it in a previous line of code.  The only workaround I’ve been able to find is to open one browser in Chrome and one in Firefox or Internet Explorer.