launching browsers from/on restricted containers such as flatpak

[adrian-herscu]

launching browsers from/on restricted containers such as flatpak

[adrian-herscu]

Digged a bit and found commands.properties:

command.chrome.linux.01=google-chrome --version

this is loaded in VersionDetector and somewhere prepended with /usr/bin.

This should be customizable.

Any suggestion about how to override the default behavior?

[bonigarcia]

You can use the method browserVersionDetectionCommand() to use a custom path for your browser

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().browserVersionDetectionCommand("/path/to/browser --version").setup();

See example.

[adrian-herscu]

Followed your suggestion and added somewhere in my code:

                    webDriverManager.browserVersionDetectionCommand(
                        "flatpak run com.google.Chrome");

Tested it in a bash shell as flatpak run com.google.Chrome --version
and it returns:

[0607/232449.452209:WARNING:chrome_main_linux.cc(80)] Read channel stable from /app/extra/CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA
Google Chrome 125.0.6422.141 

Didn't work :( The logs:

WebDriverManager - Using WebDriverManager 5.7.0
Shell - Running command on the shell: ['flatpak run, com.google.Chrome']
Shell - There was a problem executing command <flatpak run com.google.Chrome> on the shell: Cannot run program "flatpak run" (in directory "."): error=2, No such file or directory

[bonigarcia]

I believe the command should contain the --version:

webDriverManager.browserVersionDetectionCommand("flatpak run com.google.Chrome --version");