Selenium Crashing: Chrome automation extension has crashed

Question

I am using Selenium web drivers, and today, for no apparant reason I started getting an error with the message\"Chrome Automation Extension has crashed. Click this balloon

Answer 1

Ok, so you are serious about the admin part as a solution to the problem?

Why not follow the advices from Google? http://chromedriver.chromium.org/help/chrome-doesn-t-start

Passing '--no-sandbox' flag when creating your WebDriver session. Special test environments sometimes cause Chrome to crash when the sandbox is enabled.

So I ended up doing as they adviced and can run things as admin. Guess it's a way forward for me now and hopefully it's a valid solution for others too.

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("--no-sandbox");
browser = new ChromeDriver(options);