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

Reason for the exception is chrome failed to load selenium automation extension.

When ever selenium opens chrome browser, selenium loads a chrome extension in chrome browser to work with it from some temp location. If chrome browser failed to load that extension it will throw an exception.

I got the same exception when my organization blocked loading third party extensions in my chrome browser.

Test method 
Veolia.BrentGWP.UserStories.Features.BrentGWPFeature._3_EnterDetailsAndSelectAnAddress_John threw exception: 
System.InvalidOperationException: unknown error: cannot get automation extension
from unknown error: page could not be found: chrome-  extension://aapnijgdinlhnhlmodcfapnahmbfebeb/_generated_background_page.html
(Session info: chrome=41.0.2272.118)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248315,platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64)

I am using Selenium with C# and Visual Studio.