Kill chromedriver process in Selenium / Java

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I am currently running multiple Java programs through Jenkins using "Build Periodically" option and uses H 06 * * 1-5 (run it every day between 6 AM and 7 AM from Monday to Friday).

There are certain programs in which i click on Links which opens up a new window. Hence, I use the below Code 

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='terms']/li[1]/a")).click();
System.out.println("Home Page is loaded Successfully and Terms of Use Link is clicked");
ArrayList<String> window1 = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
driver.switchTo().window(window1.get(1));
Thread.sleep(3000);
driver.close();
Thread.sleep(3000);
driver.switchTo().window(window1.get(0));

Now after the program runs, My other program following this fails because of the ChromeDriver.exe process that is already running.

I tried using driver.quit() instead of driver.close() in the code above, but it will close my entire browser.

Note: I have used driver.quit() at the end of my program which doesn't help me getting rid of the running Chromedriver.exe instance opened when i switched window.

Please suggest me a a good way to handle this issue. I have been looking for this solution in JAVA. But mostly i see answers for C#.

Thanks

selenium-chromedriver jenkins selenium automation java
6 Answers

I'm fairly new and still learning. I noticed quite recently my available memory was running low. Only then I found out that there were lots of instances of chromedriver.exe (and geckodriver.exe for FF) under processes. I use this to kill my ChromeDriver.exe instance.

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /F /IM ChromeDriver.exe");

It works just fine.

user_40266140

use taskkill in the finally block like shown below. It will kill the task chromedriver.exe: 

finally {
    if(System.getProperty("os.name").contains("Windows")) {
            Process process = Runtime. getRuntime(). exec("taskkill /F /IM chromedriver.exe /T");
            process.destroy();
    }
}
user_99237810

taskkill /FI "IMAGENAME eq chromedriver.exe" /F could do the magic for you

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