Matching Selenium Versions to Rapidly Updating Chrome Releases Is Fragile
Developers running Selenium-based browser automation must manually track which ChromeDriver version pairs with their installed Chrome version, and existing helper tools like webdriver-manager can fail entirely under regional network restrictions. When Chrome auto-updates ahead of the driver, previously working scripts break with no clear in-tool guidance on the correct version to install.
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