How to run Google Chrome with Selenium RC?

If I remember correctly, "*chrome" is used to launch a special mode of Firefox (a mode in which your application has more privilegies -- with less security restrictions) ; so, the fact that it's Firefox that is launched, and not Google Chrome, is normal.

If you want to launch Google Chrome, you will have to use something else than "*chrome".

Using Selenium RC in interactive mode, with something like this :

$ java -jar selenium-server.jar -interactive

and using the getNewBrowserSession command not correctly :

cmd=getNewBrowserSession

I get the list of browsers is supports :

23:43:09.317 INFO - Got result: Failed to start new browser session: Browser not supported:(Did you forget to add a *?)Supported browsers include:  *firefox  *mock  *firefoxproxy  *pifirefox  *chrome  *iexploreproxy  *iexplore  *firefox3  *safariproxy  *googlechrome  *konqueror  *firefox2  *safari  *piiexplore  *firefoxchrome  *opera  *iehta  *custom on session null

So, I'm guessing you should be able to launch Google Chrome using "*googlechrome" instead of "*chrome".

I'm not on Windows, so I can't try by myself... And I cannot find anything in the documentation to back me up... Still, with a bit of luck, this might help you...

Anyway, have fun !

As a sidenote : Google Chrome is not the one which invented the term "chrome", actually ; it means plenty of things, like Chrome Mozilla or User Interface Chrome

Using the browser *googlechrome is OK.

Actually "*chrome" represented by Firefox browser.