can't get Chrome visible mode to work - gathering replication steps

[SetSails]

Hi kensoh,

I'm trying to run the sample ./tagui samples/1_yahoo chrome in visible Chrome mode - i'm running mac os/x 10.13.6 (17G65)

It does open a new Chrome window (which by the way has none of my google accounts active) but then just doesn't do anything.

What am I missing ?

Without appending chrome to the command it does complete successfully in the background.

Thank you & Best Regards
Fabian

[kensoh]

Hi Fabian, this is interesting issue, have not come across this. (for none of Google accounts active, that is by design. so that the TagUI has its own Google Chrome session without disrupting or restarting existing open Chrome browser by user).

1. Can I check if you have downloaded a packaged installation for macOS from here -
   https://github.com/kelaberetiv/TagUI#packaged-installation

2. After Chrome window launches and hangs there, can you paste the contents of the file tagui/src/tagui_chrome.log into this GitHub issue? I'm trying to see if TagUI is able to connect to Chrome and if there is response back from Chrome.

During the first run, just like a new Chrome installation, the Chrome browser will prompt you for some initial setup, you can choose your options and Chrome won't ask again the next time.

[ck81]

@SetSails says:

It does open a new Chrome window (which by the way has none of my google accounts active) but then just doesn't do anything.

For TagUI, it's difficult to debug when there are too many commands. To find out where might be the problem, I like to try this two-liner to see if TagUI works on your machine or not:

https://google.com
LIVE

Save the above in a file, say test.txt. Then run the script using:

tagui test.txt chrome

If you see the chrome browser being launched and the google web page displayed, then you will know that TagUI is running properly on your machine. Note: the "LIVE" command is to put TagUI in interactive mode. Without this, the browser might launch, display the google page and then immediately close in the blink of an eye, and you might thought it's not working.

By the way, if you see the following error message

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib

you might need to install the OpenSSL library on your Mac.

Please refer to the article for details: "dyld: Library not loaded error on macOS (OpenSSL missing)" #86

[kensoh]

Thanks CK for adding on to share your tips on finding out root cause of the issue!

[kensoh]

Closing for now until further inputs