title: Selenium ChromeDriver not going to url using default user data
body: <p>It opens in a new window with the default start menu and shows a notification that Chrome is being controlled by automated test software, but it does not go to the url.</p>
  <pre><code>System.setProperty(&quot;webdriver.chrome.driver&quot;,&quot;C:\\Users\\&quot;+System.getProperty(&quot;user.name&quot;)+&quot;\\chromedriver.exe&quot;);
  
      ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
      options.setBinary(&quot;C:\\Users\\&quot;+System.getProperty(&quot;user.name&quot;)+&quot;\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe&quot;);
      options.addArguments(&quot;--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\&quot;+System.getProperty(&quot;user.name&quot;)+&quot;\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\&quot;);
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
      driver.get(&quot;https://www.google.com&quot;);
  </code></pre>
  <p>What I also tried:</p>
  <pre><code>        System.setProperty(&quot;webdriver.chrome.driver&quot;,&quot;C:\\Users\\&quot;+System.getProperty(&quot;user.name&quot;)+&quot;\\chromedriver.exe&quot;);
  
      ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
      options.setBinary(&quot;C:\\Users\\&quot;+System.getProperty(&quot;user.name&quot;)+&quot;\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe&quot;);
      options.addArguments(&quot;--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\&quot;+System.getProperty(&quot;user.name&quot;)+&quot;\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\&quot;);
      DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
      capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
      driver.get(&quot;https://www.google.com&quot;);
  </code></pre>
  <p>The exception it gives</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Exception in thread &quot;main&quot; org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 10.0.14393 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
  Command duration or timeout: 61.65 seconds</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I am using the lastest ChromeDriver 2.30 and Selenium 3.4.0 versions</p>