Can't update chromedriver and seleniumrelease

Question

I try to work with protractor. So I followed a small tutorial and the first thing I did:

npm install -g protractor

This will install two co

Answer 1

Read on if your webdriver-manager update doesn't update chromedriver to the latest.

I lost a few weeks pulling my hair around an issue I had with "Unable to discover open pages" and every time I would update the chromedriver, it would update to version 2.22 for chromedriver and I believe the selenium server to v2.53. My problem wasn't really with the selenium server so v2.53 was fine.

Issue was with chromedriver v2.22. 

Eventhough this chromdriver link showed that there was a latest version of 2.24, 'webdriver-manager update' would NOT pick up that latest version, it would only grab version 2.22 of the chrome driver.

How did I go around this?

Simply run the command below after you check this link for which version of chromedriver you want to update to; for instance, I wanted v2.24 so I ran the command below:

webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome 2.24

If you check your location: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\

You should see that the desired chromedriver was downloaded there; if it's not there, read the command prompt logs and it'll tell you where it downloaded your chromdriver files.

Hope that helps someone!