title: Error "cannot find Chrome binary" in windows 8 AMD64 while trying to launch selenium web-driver API
body: <p>I'm currently working with Chrome extension of selenium web-driver in windows 8 AMD64. I got an issue launching Chrome; It gives me this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "D:/java/code/SVN/OMC/trunk/Test/Scripts/PMS\elements\UILoader.py", line 164, in __init__
      self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="F:\\driver\\chromedriver.exe")
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.42.1-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 65, in __init__
  keep_alive=True)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.42.1-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
      self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.42.1-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 121, in start_session
  'desiredCapabilities': desired_capabilities,
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.42.1-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 173, in execute
      self.error_handler.check_response(response)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.42.1-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 164, in check_response
      raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
  selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: u'unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary\n  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248315,platform=Windows NT 6.2 x86_64)' 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also have put <code>IEDriverServer.exe</code> in the same path and it works fine; this path has been added to the system PATH. I also tried to launch it from another computer with windows 7 AMD64 and it works fine there. </p>
  
  <p>I googled a bit and I saw <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=695#c5" rel="nofollow">this</a>; but when I checked the path it specified for <code>chrome.exe</code>, I couldn't find the executable file for chrome. I tried to update Google Chrome, but it gave me error code 1. </p>
  
  <p>I also tried this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>opts = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
  opts.binary_location(value = "C:\\WebDrivers\\chromedriver.exe")
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = opts)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What should I do?</p>