[Description]
Sometimes Chrome is not opening or it takes around 10 minutes in order to open, no errors are displayed and the WPTDriver just displays a text saying: ‘Launching C:\Program Files (X86)\Google\Chrome\Application.…’. Attached you can find a screenshot of the WPTdriver trying to open Chrome.
I have tried several approaches to the issue without success:
- Check security settings and everything looks ok, no firewall is Activated, The UAC is set to never notify, the ipfw+dummynet is installed correctly, the windows is started in the test mode, and so on.
- I unistall and reinstall Chrome several times, both with the installer option of the wptdriver and without it.
- I add permission to Run as Administrator to the wptdriver.
- I change the options of chrome trying several combinations.
- I stopped the urlblast.exe in order to run only the wptdriver (I wanted to see if run both programs in the same machine affect the wptdriver, but that is not the problem).
[Environment]
- Windows 7 Enterprise of 64bits. I also did an installation in a Windows 7 Professional 64bits without success.
- I am using the last release of WebPageTest v2.13.
- I am using the last version of Chrome and it is working correctly when used manually.
- I have a private instance of WebpageTest in this machine (host in an Apache configured using XAMPP), the Test Agent (WPTdriver and URL Blast) are running in the same machine.
[Configuration]
This is the content of my wptdriver.ini file:
[WebPagetest]
url=http://127.0.0.1/
location=NHSDevMVA-WPTDriver
browser=chrome
Time Limit=120
;key=TestKey123
;Automatically install and update support software (Flash, Silverlight, etc)
software=http://www.webpagetest.org/installers/software.dat
[chrome]
exe=“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe”
options=‘–load-extension=“%WPTDIR%\extension” --user-date-dir=“%PROFILE%” --new-window --no-proxy-server’
installer=http://www.webpagetest.org/installers/browsers/chrome.dat
[Firefox]
exe=“C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”
options=‘-profile “%PROFILE%” -no-remote’
;installer=http://www.webpagetest.org/installers/browsers/firefox.dat
template=firefox
[Safari]
exe=“C:\Program Files (x86)\Safari\Safari.exe”
[IE]
exe=“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”
The rest of the browsers Firefox, Safari and IE9 (The IE is run using the URL Blast) are working as expected, the only issue is with Chrome, I have been trying to fix this issue for 3 days now and I run out of ideas. Please give me a hand in order to fix this.
If more details mihght be required to solve this, please let me know. I will appreciate your help.