How to run selenium 3.x with chrome driver through terminal
your options are out of order. -D... is a java runtime variable. it needs to come before the -jar directive.
Change your command to
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=chromedriver -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -browserSideLog -debug -timeout 60I used to run selenium 2.x as that way.
Yes, we changed the source to use JCommander in 3.0 to parse options passed into the jar. -D directives are now parsed as options you are trying to pass into the jar, just like -debug and -timeout. For your command to be well formed, you really should be using -D... before the -jar directive.