How to Update Chrome Driver in Selenium

Chromedriver is essential when running our test script via the chrome browser. This article will show how we can update the chrome driver manually when a version mismatch occurs with the latest chrome build in Selenium WebDriver Java.

Step 1: Open chrome browser to check your google chrome version.

Step 2: Click on on 3 vertical dots ... on top right corner of chrome browser -> Help -> About Google Chrome

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Step 3: Wait for chrome browser to update

how to update chrome version in selenium webdriver

Step 4: Once updated, relaunch chrome and check your browser version again.

You can see earlier I had version 112 earlier, now it is 113.

Step 5: Visit Chrome Driver Website

Step 6: Select version compatible with your browser, in my case it is 113.

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Step 7: Select file compatible with your operating system. For Windows file is same for 32-bit and 64bit and for Mac there is different ARM file.

Once you will click on link, the file will start downloading.

Step 8: Make sure all existing chrome instances are closed.

You can kill process from Task Manager. If there are many instance use below command on Windows.

taskkill /F /IM "chrome.exe" /T

Step 9: Replace your existing ChromeDriver executable file with new downloaded file.