Google Chrome unable to navigate to specified URL when triggered from Selenium

Question

I have an automation framework developed around Selenium-WebDriver which launches Chrome and navigates to specified URL and performs specified automation. When I commissione

Answer 1

In my case, the chrome browser version and chromedriver versions were incompatible. Chrome updated automatically from 56 to 57 and my chromedriver version was 2.27. The 2 issues throwing 'org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot get automation extension' error (when maximizing the browser and when taking screenshots), where fixed after updating to cromdriver version 2.28.