Selenium - Chrome binary ignored - selenium

Question

I prefer to use old Selenium 2.53.1 with old version of Chromium 52.0 and chromedriver 2.24. I'm running following on Windows 7:
start java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\dev\selenium\chromedriver.exe -Dwebdriver.chrome.binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe -Dwebdriver.chrome.chrome_binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe -Dwebdriver.chrome.capabilities.binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe -Dwebdriver.chrome.capabilities.chrome_binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe -browser browserName="chrome",version=ANY,platform=WINDOWS,maxInstances=1,binary="C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe",chrome_binary="C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe" -host 0.0.0.0 -port 4444
As you can see I have tried a lot of variants trying both binary and chrome_binary. But Selenium Server ignores those options and starts a default Chrome Browser. How to make it run the binary I specified C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe?
09:22:53.149 INFO - Launching a standalone Selenium Server
Setting system property webdriver.chrome.driver to C:\dev\selenium\chromedriver.exe
Setting system property webdriver.chrome.binary to C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
Setting system property webdriver.chrome.chrome_binary to C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
Setting system property webdriver.chrome.capabilities.binary to C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
Setting system property webdriver.chrome.capabilities.chrome_binary to C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
09:22:53.480 INFO - Java: Oracle Corporation 25.65-b01
09:22:53.480 INFO - OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64
09:22:53.490 INFO - v2.53.1, with Core v2.53.1. Built from revision a36b8b1
09:22:53.569 INFO - Driver class not found: com.opera.core.systems.OperaDriver
09:22:53.569 INFO - Driver provider com.opera.core.systems.OperaDriver is not registered
09:22:53.579 INFO - Driver provider org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver registration is skipped:
registration capabilities Capabilities [{browserName=safari, version=, platform=MAC}] does not match the current platform VISTA
09:22:53.579 INFO - Driver class not found: org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver
09:22:53.579 INFO - Driver provider org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver is not registered
09:22:53.928 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
09:22:53.928 INFO - Selenium Server is up and running
09:22:54.331 INFO - Executing: [new session: Capabilities [{acceptSslCerts=false, browserName=chrome, platform=ANY}]])
09:22:54.345 INFO - Creating a new session for Capabilities [{acceptSslCerts=false, browserName=chrome, platform=ANY}]
Starting ChromeDriver 2.24.417431 (9aea000394714d2fbb20850021f6204f2256b9cf) onport 4923
Only local connections are allowed.
09:22:55.137 INFO - Done: [new session: Capabilities [{acceptSslCerts=false, browserName=chrome, platform=ANY}]]
Related (unaswered):
How to specify the Chrome binary location via the selenium server standalone command line?

Answer 1

Change your command to something like below
start java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\dev\selenium\chromedriver.exe
-Dwebdriver.chrome.binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
-Dwebdriver.chrome.chrome_binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
-Dwebdriver.chrome.capabilities.binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
-Dwebdriver.chrome.capabilities.chrome_binary=C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe
-jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -browser browserName="chrome",version=ANY,platform=WINDOWS,maxInstances=1,binary="C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe",chrome_binary="C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe" -host 0.0.0.0 -port 4444
and try again ? You should put the -D JVM argument before the -jar.
For more information refer here.

Answer 2

Seems using Selenium Grid everything works:
start java -Dwebdriver.server.session.timeout=900 -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -role hub -host 0.0.0.0 -port 4444
start java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\dev\selenium\chromedriver.exe -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -role node -browser browserName="chrome",version=ANY,platform=WINDOWS,maxInstances=1,chrome_binary="C:\dev\selenium\chrome-win32\chrome.exe" -hub http://127.0.0.1:4444/grid/register -port 5555