Selenium doesn't return after starting Chrome but returns after starting Firefox?
Question: I am trying to execute the following code in Python with Selenium:

    
    
    def create_browser(first_page=None):
        print "Starting"
        browser = webdriver.Chrome()
        if first_page:
            browser.get(first_page);
        print "Done."
        return browser
    
    browser = create_browser()
    

When I execute this code, Chromium starts but the "Done" statement doesn't get
printed. However, if I replace `Chrome()` by `Firefox()` the browser starts
and "Done" gets printed. I tried to verfiy this in terminal too. If I execute
following series of statements:

    
    
    from selenium import webdriver
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    

When I replace `Chrome()` by `Firefox()` the terminal returns normally and
displays `>>` (in the python shell but that doesn't happen with Chromium. Can
anyone tell what's going wrong here. I really appreciate your help. Thanks!

Update:

I am not sure if this helps but when I execute using `webdriver` a file called
`chromedriver.log` gets generated in the directory containing my code. It has
the following contents:

    
    
    [0.000][INFO]:      ChromeDriver 20.0.1133.0 /home/therookie/bin/chromedriver
    [1.000][FINE]:      Initializing session with capabilities {
       "browserName": "chrome",
       "chromeOptions": {
          "args": [  ],
          "extensions": [  ]
       },
       "javascriptEnabled": true,
       "platform": "ANY",
       "version": ""
    }
    
    [1.001][INFO]:      Launching chrome: /usr/bin/google-chrome --disable-hang-monitor --disable-prompt-on-repost --dom-automation --full-memory-crash-report --no-default-browser-check --no-first-run --ignore-certificate-errors --homepage=about:blank
    [11.796][SEVERE]:   Failed to initialize connection
    


Answer: Chrome requires a special file called chromedriver to run. Look
[here](https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver) to see what
chromedriver is

` from selenium import webdriver import os chromedriver =
"PATH_TO_CHROMEDRIVER" os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver) ` This should launch
Chrome and print done.

