Have ChromeDriver features been deprecated?

Question

I had a piece of code that worked perfectly fine until today.

  public class TestSelenium {


    public static void main(String[] args) {


                System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","chromedriver\\chromedriver.exe"); 
                WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
                driver.get("https://google.com");
                driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
                driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("hello world");

    }

}

The above simple code trow the following error:

  Started ChromeDriver
port=25456
version=26.0.1383.0
log=C:\Use................omedriver.log
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unknown command 'WaitForAllTabsToStopLoading'. Options: AcceptOrDismissAppModalDialog, ActionOnSSLBlockingPage, ActivateTab, AddBookmark, AddDomEventObserver, AppendTab, ApplyAccelerator, BringBrowserToFront, ClearEventQueue, CloseBrowserWindow, CloseTab, CreateNewAutomationProvider, DeleteCookie, DeleteCookieInBrowserContext, DoesAutomationObjectExist, DragAndDropFilePaths, ExecuteJavascript, ExecuteJavascriptInRenderView, GetActiveTabIndex, GetAppModalDialogMessage, GetBookmarkBarStatus, GetBookmarksAsJSON, GetBrowserInfo, GetBrowserWindowCount, GetChromeDriverAutomationVersion, GetCookies, GetCookiesInBrowserContext, GetDownloadDirectory, GetExtensionsInfo, GetIndicesFromTab, GetLocalStatePrefsInfo, GetMultiProfileInfo, GetNextEvent, GetPrefsInfo, GetProcessInfo, GetSecurityState, GetTabCount, GetTabIds, GetTabInfo, GetViews, GoBack, GoForward, InstallExtension, IsDownloadShelfVisible, IsFindInPageVisible, IsMenuCommandEnabled, IsPageActionVisible, IsTabIdValid, MaximizeView, NavigateToURL, OpenFindInPage, OpenNewBrowserWindow, OpenNewBrowserWindowWithNewProfile, OpenProfileWindow, OverrideGeoposition, RefreshPolicies, Reload, RemoveBookmark, RemoveEventObserver, ReparentBookmark, RunCommand, SendWebkitKeyEvent, SetBookmarkTitle, SetBookmarkURL, SetCookie, SetCookieInBrowserContext, SetDownloadShelfVisible, SetExtensionStateById, SetLocalStatePrefs, SetPrefs, SetViewBounds, SimulateAsanMemoryBug, TriggerBrowserActionById, TriggerPageActionById, UninstallExtensionById, UpdateExtensionsNow, WaitForBookmarkModelToLoad, WaitUntilNavigationCompletes, WebkitMouseButtonDown, WebkitMouseButtonUp, WebkitMouseClick, WebkitMouseDoubleClick, WebkitMouseDrag, WebkitMouseMove, AcceptCurrentFullscreenOrMouseLockRequest, AddOrEditSearchEngine, AddSavedPassword, CloseNotification, DenyCurrentFullscreenOrMouseLockRequest, DisablePlugin, EnablePlugin, FindInPage, GetAllNotifications, GetDownloadsInfo, GetFPS, GetHistoryInfo, GetInitialLoadTimes, GetNTPInfo, GetNavigationInfo, GetOmniboxInfo, GetPluginsInfo, GetSavedPasswords, GetSearchEngineInfo, GetV8HeapStats, ImportSettings, IsFullscreenBubbleDisplayed, IsFullscreenBubbleDisplayingButtons, IsFullscreenForBrowser, IsFullscreenForTab, IsFullscreenPermissionRequested, IsMouseLockPermissionRequested, IsMouseLocked, KillRendererProcess, LaunchApp, LoadSearchEngineInfo, OmniboxAcceptInput, OmniboxMovePopupSelection, PerformActionOnDownload, PerformActionOnInfobar, PerformActionOnSearchEngine, RemoveNTPMostVisitedThumbnail, RemoveSavedPassword, RestoreAllNTPMostVisitedThumbnails, SaveTabContents, SetAppLaunchType, SetOmniboxText, SetWindowDimensions, WaitForAllDownloadsToComplete, WaitForNotificationCount,  (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 52 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.28.0', revision: '18309', time: '2012-12-11 20:21:18'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_11'
Session ID: 987719ad2795cc183f7dba
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Capabilities [{platform=XP, chrome.chromedriverVersion=26.0.1383.0, acceptSslCerts=false, javascriptEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=false, version=29.0.1547.57, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=false, webStorageEnabled=true, nativeEvents=true, applicationCacheEnabled=false, takesScreenshot=true}]
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:187)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:533)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.get(RemoteWebDriver.java:276)
    at genealogy2.TestSelenium.main(TestSelenium.java:21)

I am very confused ... What is wrong with the Fluent wait? Have there been any changes to Selenium or is it possible that this kind of error is because of the automatic Java upgrades? (PS: I did not upgrade Java and Selenium manually) Do I need to upgrade the ChromeDriver? I tried to search for the latest version, but could not find any newer that the one I using

Also I tried the following:

public class TestSelenium {


    public static void main(String[] args) {


                WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
                driver.get("https://google.com");
                driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
                driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("hello world");
                System.out.println("hi");
    }

}

Theabove code works fine ... So does it mean that the problem is with the chrome driver???

Answer 1

Our regression systems have been producing this error as well. Upgrade to the latest ChromeDriver, and you'll be set.

It happened to all Selenium 2 users that had GoogleUpdate running in the background. As soon as chrome v29 came out, it seemed to have a disconnect with the old chromedriver. Updating to the latest chromedriver, seems to fix the issue.

You can find the binaries, here