selenium: [🐛 Bug]: Selenium uses a browser downloaded by Selenium Manager instead of the system one

What happened?

After upgrading to Selenium 4.13, my code started warning me that the chromedriver and chrome versions were not matching.

I made sure that my container had matching versions for the browser and webdriver I wanted to use

yum list --installed | grep "chrom"
chromedriver.x86_64                       116.0.5845.96-1.el9              @epel
chromium.x86_64                           116.0.5845.96-1.el9              @epel
chromium-common.x86_64                    116.0.5845.96-1.el9              @epel
libchromaprint.x86_64                     1.5.1-1.el9                      @epel

After much head scratching, I found this page: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/selenium_manager/#automated-browser-management It looks like newer version of Selenium come with selenium manager by default, and there’s no way to stop Selenium from using the browser(s) managed and cached by Selenium Manager

How can we reproduce the issue?

N/A

Relevant log output

The chromedriver version (116.0.5845.96) detected in PATH at /usr/bin/chromedriver might not be compatible with the detected chrome version (117.0.5938.92); currently, chromedriver 117.0.5938.92 is recommended for chrome 117.*, so it is advised to delete the driver in PATH and retry

Operating System

Fedora 38 / CentOS Stream 9

Selenium version

4.13 / 4.11.2

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

Chromium 116 / Chrome 117

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

ChromeDriver 116

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No