Hi Carl,
Yeah, you're right. I don't think it matters where it's installed. And regardless, I think the main reason it's installed in Program Files vs Program Files (x86) is that Google recently (within the last year or so) changed the install location for Chrome so that it installs in the 64bit Program Files instead of x86. I tested this a few times a few months ago when working with some Virtual Machines where I reinstalled Chrome. One month, it was installing in Program Files (x86) and the next month it started installing in Program Files.
Also, I'm going to mention this here because I'm being lazy today.
😃 There is an issue that still persists with attaching to Chrome upon launching it from Blue Prism. I think a lot of people have discovered this by now. It appears as though you have to launch Chrome twice (leaving the first window open while you launch the second) for Blue Prism to successfully attach to Chrome automatically. I may submit a support ticket to report the bug, but I figured I'd mention it now to you in case I fail to submit the ticket.
Below is the same info I replied with earlier in this same thread for reference: One thing I want to point out is that along with this 'bug' is that Blue Prism doesn't detach from Chrome when you close the Chrome window using the X at the top right or when using the Terminate action of a navigate stage. There are two ways I've found to have it successfully detach: (1) Click the three vertical dots at the top right of Chrome and then click 'Exit' OR (2) Kill the Chrome process.
This issue still exists in 6.10.1 as well. The good thing is that there's a workaround.Here are some things that I do to avoid the issue where you have to launch twice to work on application modeller elements:
- (EITHER) When you close Chrome in the automation flow, do it in two steps: (a) Close Chrome using the top right X or the 'Close' action when you sy the whole window with Win32, and then (b) Kill the Chrome Process using Utility - Environment. (OR) As an alternative, you can hit the 3 dots at the top right of Chrome and then choose 'Exit' in the popup menu; doing this will successfully cause Chrome to close in such a way that Blue Prism will detach properly as well and preps it for properly launching Chrome again next time.
- In app modeller or wherever you use the URL in Launching, include the argument --incognito so that it opens in incognito mode which will keep the 'Restore pages' popup from showing and can help with some other issues as well.
- Before it will work in incognito mode, you need to go to the Chrome extension and enable incognito mode for the extension (Right click the Blue Prism Browser extension > click Manage Extensions > click the slider for 'Allow in Incognito' so that it is enabled).
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Dave Morris
Cano Ai
Atlanta, GA
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Dave Morris, 3Ci at Southern Company