After using Selenium on macOS, Chrome isn't the same

Question

I installed selenium and used a python program to run chrome using selenium on my MacBook Air. Before there was an error on selenium, and after installing googlechrome drivers for selenium and creating a PATH using terminal, it opened a separate google chrome page that showed Chrome is being controlled by automated test software.

After around 30 minutes of running python and using selenium, I saved and closed out of everything.

In the next 2 minutes, I reopened Google Chrome to search something about web scraping, and the browser was the same one used by selenium. It still showed the Chrome is being controlled by automated test software notice, and there was a Chrome Automation Extension.

I tried:

• logging in and syncing, but syncing was not available.

• opening Google Chrome from application folder and dock, but nothing changed

• deleting Google Chrome and reinstalling, but nothing changed

I don't know how to fix this. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Ok, so I found out that the chromedriver was still running in the background. After I closed it using activity monitor, the problem was solved.