Google chrome closes immediately after being launched with selenium

Question

I am on Mac OS X using selenium with python 3.6.3.

This code runs fine, opens google chrome and chrome stays open.:

chrome_options = Options()
chrome         


        

Answer 1

My guess is that the driver gets garbage collected, in C++ the objects inside a function (or class) get destroyed when out of context. Python doesn´t work quite the same way but its a garbage collected language. Objects will be collected once they are no longer referenced.

To solve your problem you could pass the object reference as an argument, or return it.

    def launchBrowser():
       chrome_options = Options()
       chrome_options.binary_location="../Google Chrome"
       chrome_options.add_argument("start-maximized");
       driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

       driver.get("http://www.google.com/")
       return driver
    driver = launchBrowser()