Chrome driver stopped working for Chrome browser version 54 with the latest Chrome driver 2.24

Question

Today the latest build for chrome browser version got installed automatically which is now 54.0.2840.71 m (64-bit). I am unable to drive the browser using the latest Chrome

Answer 1

I have the exact same problem. The only solution I know of (for now) is to revert back to the previous version of Chrome before the update... if possible. Thankfully I had one machine that had the chrome.exe version I needed as the updated VMs had blown it away.

This helped me: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/UFSYuIr1-80/DivHmlqPDAAJ

However I did not have "old_chrome.exe" in the folder. I had the old version directory but the old corresponding exe was gone. If I had not found it on an un-updated PC I would have been screwed.

Edit: I also turned off all Chrome updates so I can control them from now on: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31939624/2246511