selenium: [🐛 Bug]: [java] Cannot instantiate ChromeDriver on Windows using selenium 4.16

What happened?

I cannot instantiate ChromeDriver on selenium 4.16 on Windows 11.

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Note: I was mainly focused to use version 4.16 to get over the bug #13091, which should be resolved by https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/commit/d1787a9d1ed6a3ea643e9d50f393fec02cc6ae2e . On linux it seems to work correctly, but not on Windows.

How can we reproduce the issue?

Set up a simple maven project. Using just Selenium java.

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>4.16.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

with one executable main method:

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ChromeDriver chromeDriver = new ChromeDriver();
        chromeDriver.quit();
    }
}

Relevant log output

Using selenium 4.16 I get following error:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.NoSuchDriverException: Unable to obtain: Capabilities {browserName: chrome, goog:chromeOptions: {args: [], extensions: []}}, error Command failed with code: -1073741701, executed: [--browser, chrome, --output, json]

Build info: version: '4.16.0', revision: '15400459dd*'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 11', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '21.0.1'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverFinder.getPath(DriverFinder.java:25)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverFinder.getPath(DriverFinder.java:13)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.generateExecutor(ChromeDriver.java:100)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:89)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:84)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:73)
	at org.example.Main.main(Main.java:8)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Command failed with code: -1073741701, executed: [--browser, chrome, --output, json]

Build info: version: '4.16.0', revision: '15400459dd*'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 11', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '21.0.1'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
	at org.openqa.selenium.manager.SeleniumManager.runCommand(SeleniumManager.java:157)
	at org.openqa.selenium.manager.SeleniumManager.getDriverPath(SeleniumManager.java:299)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverFinder.getPath(DriverFinder.java:22)
	... 6 more

Using selenium 4.15 all works as expected.

Operating System

Windows 11

Selenium version

4.16

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

Chrome 120

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

from SeleniumManager

Are you using Selenium Grid?

no