selenium: [🐛 Bug]: download.default_directory after update Chrome and chromedriver not working

What happened?

After update chrome and chromedriver to version 110 chromedriver_mac_arm64 https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads download.default_directory stopped working. Before today’s update everything worked. Please let me know if I need to change anything in the code. The file is downloaded but to the main folder with the application and not to the designated path

chrome_options = Options() prefs = {‘download.default_directory’: ‘./x/x’} chrome_options.add_experimental_option(‘prefs’, prefs) driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

How can we reproduce the issue?

chrome_options = Options()
prefs = {'download.default_directory': './x/x'}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

Relevant log output

The file is downloaded but to the main folder with the application and not to the designated path

Operating System

macOS Monterey 12.0.1

Selenium version

4.4.3

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome 110

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver 110.0.5481.77

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Comments: 41 (5 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

[fix] set headless to 'new' for download see: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/11637 — committed to shirasagi/shirasagi by sunny4381 a year ago
Fix issues with window sizing and new headless mode in Chrome > 109: * Current Chrome version (112) has issue handling window sizing See https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/11637 ... — committed to yohanchatelain/ppmi-scraper by yohanchatelain a year ago
Fix issues with window sizing and new headless mode in Chrome > 109: (#70) * Current Chrome version (112) has issue handling window sizing See https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/116... — committed to LivingPark-MRI/ppmi-scraper by yohanchatelain a year ago
Fix issues with window sizing and new headless mode in Chrome > 109: (#70) * Current Chrome version (112) has issue handling window sizing See https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/116... — committed to LivingPark-MRI/ppmi-scraper by yohanchatelain a year ago
Configura downloads para pasta ./data/ Não consegui fazer com que o Chrome baixasse automaticamente pra esta pasta. Parece ser um bug no driver https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/11637 — committed to luizftoledo/emendas_scraper by vitorbaptista a year ago

Most upvoted comments

https://www.selenium.dev/blog/2023/headless-is-going-away/

+10

diemol on Feb 14, 2023

–headless --> download path not working –headless=new -> maximizing not working

That is the exactly the same problem I have.

fryefryefrye on Mar 15, 2023

I had the exact same issue where the following worked in previous ChromeDriver versions but it stopped working in 110.0.5481.77 on Windows 10:

chrome_options = Options()
prefs = {'download.default_directory': './x/x'}
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

I had to make 2 changes:

Use the new headless argument as suggested by the previous answers:

chrome_options.add_argument("--headless=new")

Also Add a trailing slash to the folder path:


prefs = {'download.default_directory': '.\\x\\x\\'}

This now works:

chrome_options = Options()

# For windows:
prefs = {'download.default_directory': '.\\x\\x\\'}

chrome_options.add_argument("--headless=new")
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

It’s strange how it worked fine without the trailing slash previously. Thanks to this older post

uda832 on Feb 21, 2023

@Anilkumar-Shrestha there is no --headless=old. as of right now, it is either --headless=new or --headless

titusfortner on May 9, 2023

@sokol1412 - Do you know the bug id for Chrome/Chromedriver so that I can follow it’s status?

They fix it. Use --headless=new instead --headless and use the entire path to the folder e.g. /Users/xxx/downloads/folder1

malorny on Feb 15, 2023

@titusfortner Some Help

chik145 on Nov 28, 2023

With chrome version 113.0.5672.64 , issue with download file is working fine with chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless=old") .

Anilkumar-Shrestha on May 8, 2023

I have chromedriver 111.0.5563.64 on my ubuntu docker image and same as @easytester21, I can confirm that issue is still present

gerardkmiec on Mar 24, 2023

I can confirm headless=new fixes codeception based download tests using anasess/setup-chromedriver

stell on Mar 9, 2023

Same problem here , our tests that checks file downloads stopped working (still working fine on 109).

Did not test it fully , but it seems it works fine on 110 when not using headless mode , when using headless mode it always faill since it does not find the downloaded file.

hagaygo on Feb 14, 2023