start browser fail on windows when running as administrator

[XIGUAjuice]

Hi, here is the simple piece of reproducible code

import zendriver as zd
import asyncio

newfeature = asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(zd.start(()))

When I am running powershell as administrator, this will fail and I will get

Exception:
                ---------------------
                Failed to connect to browser
                ---------------------
                One of the causes could be when you are running as root.
                In that case you need to pass no_sandbox=True

But when I am NOT running as administrator, it can works.

I have tried to start Chrome using subprocess.Popen, and connect with zendriver.start(host, port) as administrator, it works. So maybe there is some problems in zd.start()

[S-Tarr]

Hi, I believe the quick fix to your issue is to pass the sandbox=False as an argument to start(). On POSIX systems this is detected by default and disabled but since it seems you're on Windows, you might need to set it manually so zendriver starts chrome with correct flags if you want to run as administrator.

Fix:
newfeature = asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(zd.start(sandbox=False))

Hope this helps!

[neotradeshub]

Was this the fix for running as administrator I'm seeing same error and haven't gotten it to work yet

[S-Tarr]

@neotradeshub On windows, if you want to run zendriver as root you might need to pass the arg sandbox=False into any zd.start() call like I mentioned above.

Let me know if that fixes it!