Not able initiate browser in remote system whereas it's working fine in local system[🐛 Bug]:

[ravikiranreddy6295]

What happened?

I tried to use beta version of Chrome for testing, it is not initiating the browser. Alternatively I am using chromeOptions.setbinary("C:\Program Files\chrome-win64\chrome-win64\chrome.exe"), it is working in local but not in remote system.(downloaded stable CFT version as beta was not working)

How can we reproduce the issue?

case "chrome":

                ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
                chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Program Files\\chrome-win64\\chrome-win64\\chrome.exe");
                //chromeOptions.setBrowserVersion("beta");

                chromeOptions.addArguments("--remote-allow-origins=*");

                if (browserMode.equalsIgnoreCase("headless")) {
                    chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless");
                }
                chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches",
                        Arrays.asList("--disable-popup-blocking"));

                tlDriver.set(new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions));
break;

Relevant log output

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure. 
Host info: host: 
Build info: version: '4.22.0', revision: 'c5f3146703*'
System info: os.name: 'Windows Server 2019', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.9'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

Operating System

Windows 10

Selenium version

selenium 4.22.0

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

Chrome 126.0.6478.127

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

Chrome driver 126.0.6478.126

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

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[titusfortner]

The issue is for a remote session it requires matching the browser version. Unless you have specified "beta" in a stereotype, this will fail. I added a line of code to exempt "stable" from this requirement. @diemol should we do the same with "beta?"

[diemol]

I'd love to see the logs to double check it, but sure.

[titusfortner]

Hmm, isn't this the error when you don't get matching capabilities?

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.

But you're right, complete logs would let us know for sure this is the problem..