Selenium Download Not Working in Java + Spring Boot Project (Chrome 135, Selenium 4.31.0)

Question

I'm building a Java 21 + Spring Boot 3 automation project where I use Selenium to automate Chrome. The Chrome browser opens correctly via ChromeDriver, everything was working a month ago, but now file downloads are not getting completed at all, the .crdownload file gets created but it never completes.

I have tried to update the drivers to my chrome version, which was automatic updated and have configured Chrome for Testing as well, but no luck.

🧱 Setup:

Java 21
Spring Boot 3
Selenium version: 4.10 (have tried 4.31.0 as well)
Chrome version: 135.0.7049.85
chromedriver: 135.0.7049.84 (downloaded via WebDriverManager)

Config class:

@Configuration
public class WebDriverConfig {

    @Bean
    public WebDriver webDriver() {
        // Setup ChromeDriver
        WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

        // Chrome Options
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        options.setBinary("chrome/win64-135.0.7049.84/chrome-win64/chrome.exe");
        options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
        options.addArguments("--disable-notifications");
        options.addArguments("--remote-allow-origins=*");
        options.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
        options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080");

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
        System.out.println("✅ ChromeDriver started and should be visible now!");
        return driver;
    }
    
}

Console log:

2025-04-13T03:48:01.369+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] c.t.automate.AutomateApplication         : Starting AutomateApplication using Java 21.0.2 with PID 14204 (D:\Projects\JavaProjects\automate\target\classes started by Light in D:\Projects\JavaProjects\automate)
2025-04-13T03:48:01.376+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] c.t.automate.AutomateApplication         : No active profile set, falling back to 1 default profile: "default"
2025-04-13T03:48:02.454+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer  : Tomcat initialized with port 8080 (http)
2025-04-13T03:48:02.471+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService   : Starting service [Tomcat]
2025-04-13T03:48:02.471+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine    : Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/10.1.36]
2025-04-13T03:48:02.547+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/]       : Initializing Spring embedded WebApplicationContext
2025-04-13T03:48:02.549+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] w.s.c.ServletWebServerApplicationContext : Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 1119 ms
2025-04-13T03:48:02.884+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] i.g.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager      : Using chromedriver 135.0.7049.84 (resolved driver for Chrome 135)
2025-04-13T03:48:02.903+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] i.g.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager      : Exporting webdriver.chrome.driver as C:\Users\Light\.cache\selenium\chromedriver\win64\135.0.7049.84\chromedriver.exe
2025-04-13T03:48:04.929+05:30  WARN 14204 --- [automate] [           main] o.o.selenium.devtools.CdpVersionFinder   : Unable to find CDP implementation matching 135
2025-04-13T03:48:04.930+05:30  WARN 14204 --- [automate] [           main] o.o.selenium.chromium.ChromiumDriver     : Unable to find version of CDP to use for 135.0.7049.84. You may need to include a dependency on a specific version of the CDP using something similar to `org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-devtools-v86:4.25.0` where the version ("v86") matches the version of the chromium-based browser you're using and the version number of the artifact is the same as Selenium's.
✅ ChromeDriver started and should be visible now!
2025-04-13T03:48:05.279+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer  : Tomcat started on port 8080 (http) with context path '/'
2025-04-13T03:48:05.288+05:30  INFO 14204 --- [automate] [           main] c.t.automate.AutomateApplication         : Started AutomateApplication in 4.454 seconds (process running for 4.938)

And the pom.xml:

    <!-- Selenium WebDriver -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>4.10.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- WebDriverManager (to manage ChromeDriver automatically) -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
        <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
        <version>5.5.0</version>
    </dependency>

I have tried:

updating the dependencies.
updating the chromedriver and chrome as well
adding the selenium devtools

but no luck, not sure how to resolve the issue

Can you add "selenium-devtools-v116" to your maven and try.

Vijay
– Vijay

2025-04-13 15:19:52 +00:00
Commented Apr 13 at 15:19 — Vijay
– Vijay, Commented Apr 13 at 15:19

Eric M Johnson · Accepted Answer · 2025-04-30 21:35:18Z

I'm running into the same problem with my Spring Boot app, except I am using Gradle.

In build.gradle, (Gradle's equivalent to pom.xml) I originally had this, with no version, but it would not download the latest 4.31.0. The jars in the Gradle cache were version 4.25.0

testImplementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java")

What worked for me was to identify ALL the selenium jar files that had to be downloaded, and use implementation instead of testImplementation.

implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-bom:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chromium-driver:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-devtools-v133:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-devtools-v134:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-devtools-v135:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-edge-driver:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-firefox-driver:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-http:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-ie-driver:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-json:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-manager:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-os:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-remote-driver:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-safari-driver:4.31.0")
implementation("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:4.31.0")

Since you are using Maven, you will need to make similar changes to the pom.xml. I know this is a little bit of a hack, Gradle and Maven should pull all related jars, but for whatever reason it isn't currently doing that now.

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