Run Selenium Java Scripts in already Opened Browser

This demo will be using chrome browser to run selenium scripts.

Adding Chrome to Environment Variable

• Click start and type Environment Variable. Select “Edit environment variable for your account”.

• Select Path and click edit.

• Add the path where your chrome.exe is present. Usually it will be present in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Application”.

• Test addition of chrome path using command prompt. Execute the below command, it should open your chrome browser.

chrome.exe

• Type following command to open chrome on remote debugging mode. Change to any port which is available.

chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir="C:\Selenium\ChromeProfile"

• This will create a folder “Selenium” in C drive to keep all data related to chrome.
• Open your Selenium Java code and add the following code to create chrome driver to point to chrome running in debugger mode at port 9222.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "<Path of Chrome driver>\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("debuggerAddress","localhost:9222");
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

• Now all your scripts will be running in already opened chrome browser.

Thank you All!!! Hope you find this useful.