Selenium: WebDriverException:Chrome failed to start: crashed as google-chrome is no longer running so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed

Question

Recently I switched computers and since then I can\'t launch chrome with selenium. I\'ve also tried Firefox but the browser instance just doesn\'t launch.

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Answer 1

Make sure that both the chromedriver and google-chrome executable have execute permissions

sudo chmod -x "/usr/bin/chromedriver"

sudo chmod -x "/usr/bin/google-chrome"