[🐛 Bug]: Unable to obtain driver after update to Selenium 4.11.2 on MacOS

[MarcGruener]

What happened?

I was using Selenium 4.10.0 for a Python 3.11.4 project on MacOS Ventura 13.4.1 successfully.
However, after updating Selenium to 4.11.2 with the Safari Driver, I would always get the following error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain driver for safari using Selenium Manager.

When debugging with safaridriver --version, I would always get:

Included with Safari 16.5.2 (18615.2.9.11.10)

I also manually checked $PATH and it was included so it should be working.
After downgrading to Selenium 4.10.0 again, everything works perfectly again.

How can we reproduce the issue?

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Safari()
browser.get('http://selenium.dev/')

Relevant log output

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain driver for safari using Selenium Manager.; For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors/driver_location

Operating System

macOS Ventura 13.4.1

Selenium version

Python 4.11.2

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

Safari 16.5.2

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

Safari 16.5.2 (18615.2.9.11.10)

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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[diemol]

Looks like a ChatGPT answer 😂

[titusfortner]

Can you turn on logging and provide the output so we can see what Selenium Manager is doing?
https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/logging/

[MarcGruener]

I tried but I can't quite figure out how to activate the logging/its not working as expected:

1. Created conda environment
2. Activated conda environment (Python 3.11.4)
3. Installed selenium with conda install -c conda-forge selenium
4. Created test_selenium.py

# test_selenium.py
import logging

logging.basicConfig(filename='selenium.log', encoding='utf-8', level=logging.DEBUG)
logger = logging.getLogger('selenium')

logging.info('<--- Started --->')

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Safari()
browser.get('http://selenium.dev/')

logging.info('<--- Finished --->')

--> Getting the selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain driver for safari using Selenium Manager. error

5. Run python test_selenium.py and open selenium.log:

INFO:root:<--- Started --->

If I follow the same steps as above but use conda install -c conda-forge selenium=4.10.0 during step 3. instead, everything works as expected and this is what selenium.log looks like:

INFO:root:<--- Started --->
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.service:Started executable: `/usr/bin/safaridriver` in a child process with pid: 33094
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:POST http://localhost:51207/session {"capabilities": {"firstMatch": [{}], "alwaysMatch": {"browserName": "safari", "platformName": "mac", "pageLoadStrategy": "normal"}}}
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): localhost:51207
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://localhost:51207 "POST /session HTTP/1.1" 200 0
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":{"sessionId":"283B1A64-9B8F-4AE4-A9D0-F584A6A55218","capabilities":{"safari:platformVersion":"13.4.1","safari:automaticInspection":false,"webkit:WebRTC":{"DisableICECandidateFiltering":false,"DisableInsecureMediaCapture":false},"browserVersion":"16.5.2","strictFileInteractability":false,"browserName":"Safari","safari:useSimulator":false,"safari:platformBuildVersion":"22F82","setWindowRect":true,"acceptInsecureCerts":false,"safari:automaticProfiling":false,"pageLoadStrategy":"normal","platformName":"macOS","safari:diagnose":false}}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Server': 'safaridriver [18615.2.9.11.10]', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'Date': 'Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:01:07 GMT', 'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes', 'Content-Length': '546', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache', 'Connection': 'keep-alive'})
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:Finished Request
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:POST http://localhost:51207/session/283B1A64-9B8F-4AE4-A9D0-F584A6A55218/url {"url": "http://selenium.dev/"}
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://localhost:51207 "POST /session/283B1A64-9B8F-4AE4-A9D0-F584A6A55218/url HTTP/1.1" 200 0
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":null} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Server': 'safaridriver [18615.2.9.11.10]', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'Date': 'Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:01:08 GMT', 'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes', 'Content-Length': '14', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache', 'Connection': 'keep-alive'})
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:Finished Request
INFO:root:<--- Finished --->

[titusfortner]

Oh, Conda. That's different.

Conda does not currently support Selenium Manager, you'll need to continue to manage your own drivers until we can determine a work-around. #11234

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