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# Installing Google Chrome For Testing and Chromedriver on Ubuntu Linux

Here is a note on how to install Google Chrome For Testing 126 and chromedriver 126 on Ubuntu 22.

# Supplemental Information

Generally, it's easier and recommended to use Docker's Standalone Chrome (Selenium Grid) instead of following these steps.

https://hub.docker.com/r/selenium/standalone-chrome/tags

However, in environments where Docker cannot be used or in cases where there are special requirements for file downloads, these steps might not work as expected.

# Steps

## If google-chrome-stable is installed via apt, uninstall it.

```shell
dpkg --get-selections | grep google-chrome-stable

sudo dpkg --purge google-chrome-stable
```

## Verify the release status of Chrome for Testing

Check the following page:

https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/

## Download

On Linux:

```shell
cd /tmp
curl -O "https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/126.0.6478.55/linux64/chrome-linux64.zip"
curl -O "https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/126.0.6478.55/linux64/chromedriver-linux64.zip"
```

## Extract

```shell
unzip chrome-linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver-linux64.zip
```

No need for the `-d` option.

## Move

```shell
sudo mv /tmp/chromedriver-linux64/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/
sudo mv /tmp/chrome-linux64 /usr/local/bin/
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/chrome-linux64/chrome /usr/local/bin/google-chrome
```

## Verify Chrome Operation

```shell
cd /tmp
google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu --screenshot https://www.example.com/
imgcat screenshot.png
```

## Verify chromedriver Operation

```shell
chromedriver --verbose & curl -d '{ "desiredCapabilities": {"browserName": "chrome", "chromeOptions": {"args": [ "--headless" ]} }}' http://127.0.0.1:9515/session
```

### Result

```
Starting ChromeDriver 126.0.6478.55 (7616ff175414646cbd1ac65e912fc530b19cc573-refs/branch-heads/6478@{#1402}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.
{"sessionId":"463314578b16e8b2d57efc572a6fa6b8","status":0,"value":{"acceptInsecureCerts":false,"acceptSslCerts":false,"browserConnectionEnabled":false,"browserName":"chrome-headless-shell","chrome":{"chromedriverVersion":"126.0.6478.55 (7616ff175414646cbd1ac65e912fc530b19cc573-refs/branch-heads/6478@{#1402})","userDataDir":"/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.RjvIex"},"cssSelectorsEnabled":true,"databaseEnabled":false,"fedcm:accounts":true,"goog:chromeOptions":{"debuggerAddress":"localhost:34017"},"handlesAlerts":true,"hasTouchScreen":false,"javascriptEnabled":true,"locationContextEnabled":true,"mobileEmulationEnabled":false,"nativeEvents":true,"networkConnectionEnabled":false,"pageLoadStrategy":"normal","platform":"Linux","proxy":{},"rotatable":false,"setWindowRect":true,"strictFileInteractability":false,"takesHeapSnapshot":true,"takesScreenshot":true,"timeouts":{"implicit":0,"pageLoad":300000,"script":30000},"unexpectedAlertBehaviour":"ignore","version":"126.0.6478.55","webStorageEnabled":true,"webauthn:extension:credBlob":true,"webauthn:extension:largeBlob":true,"webauthn:extension:minPinLength":true,"webauthn:extension:prf":true,"webauthn:virtualAuthenticators":true}}
```