org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: disconnected: Unable to receive message from renderer

Question

I am testing one application in which my requirement is as below:

1. Login and create a webform through my application under test. It will generate one webform URL.
2. I am caturing the URL and opening a new tab by driver.getKeyboard().sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL,"t");
3. Now I am switching to window in which my webform is displayed.
4. Now I am navigating to the captured URL by using driver.get(URL);
5. Now it will open a webform (HTML form).
6. Now I am clicking on register button and it is capturing error message for required fields.(till here working fine)

7. Now if I try to enter name in a text box window is getting closed and below exception is getting captured:

   org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: disconnected: Unable to receive message from renderer (Session info: chrome=53.0.2785.116) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.15.322448 (52179c1b310fec1797c81ea9a20326839860b7d3),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 165 milliseconds Build info: version: '2.44.0', revision: '76d78cf', time: '2014-10-23 20:02:37' System info: host: 'BL2W3010159', ip: '10.205.34.33', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_65' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver Capabilities [{applicationCacheEnabled=false, rotatable=false, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, chrome={userDataDir=C:\Users\S10C2~1.JAI\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir7812_12384}, takesHeapSnapshot=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, version=53.0.2785.116, platform=XP, browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, acceptSslCerts=true, locationContextEnabled=true, webStorageEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true}] Session ID: 8538a93785d4fd3ffcb5a1abb482a136 Command duration or timeout: 925 milliseconds Build info: version: '2.46.0', revision: '87c69e2', time: '2015-06-04 16:17:10' System info: host: 'BL2W3010159', ip: '10.205.34.33', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_65' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver Capabilities [{applicationCacheEnabled=false, rotatable=false, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, chrome={userDataDir=C:\Users\S10C2~1.JAI\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir7812_12384}, takesHeapSnapshot=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, version=53.0.2785.116, platform=XP, browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, acceptSslCerts=true, webdriver.remote.sessionid=bb82bf2d-c736-40a0-9ddb-860b6720c0ce, locationContextEnabled=true, webStorageEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true}] Session ID: bb82bf2d-c736-40a0-9ddb-860b6720c0ce at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:204) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:156) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:605) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:269) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.sendKeys(RemoteWebElement.java:90) at com.executor.TestLibraries.NM.CampaignElement.webFormResponseAsAnAnonymousUser(CampaignElement.java:1610) at com.executor.Tests.NM.TestCampaignElement.createAWebformAndCaptureWebFormResponse(TestCampaignElement.java:576) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at Grid.ExecutorFactory.run(ExecutorFactory.java:243) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Answer 1

would you mind using Google Chrome Driver 2.23 instead? Even if exception occurs, if you try to catch the exception, ignore it, can you get further?

Answer 2

Update your Chrome driver .exe as per the latest chromedriver found here and give it's path in https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",<Path of latest chromedriver.exe>);