[FIXED] Control over browser lost when executable path is specified

Issue

I've renamed the chrome executable to rome.exe for experimenting purposes, and well, it doesn't open the webpage by driver.get() but it does open the chrome, by debugging I found out that I've lost control over the browser once it opens, the code works completely fine if i dont specify the executable path, i.e just driver = webdriver.Chrome()

Below is my code.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

chrome_path = r"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\rome.exe"
Driver_service = Service(executable_path=chrome_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Driver_service)
driver.get(r"https://stackoverflow.com/")
driver.quit()

To be noted that it isn't the chromedriver, but the chrome executable, if I run the above code when the executable is named anything apart from chrome it throws an error

Solution

You pass the chrome binary(chrome.exe) into the driver using ChromeOptions and not Service class.

In the Service class, you can pass chromedriver.exe.

Refer the code below to supply chrome.exe binary manually:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

chrome_path = r"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\crome.exe"
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.binary_location = chrome_path
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
driver.get(r"https://stackoverflow.com/")
driver.quit()

Answered By - Shawn