I'm always using the following code to initiate my selenium web driver. But the problem is, it always tries to download the latest chrome driver. How can I prevent this behavior and just let it update if there is any update on the real chrome browser? options = Options() options.add_argument("--start-maximized") driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager(cache_valid_range=0).install()), options=options) UPDATE: I think my first problem was that cache_valid_range is set to zero and because of that it always tries to download it again. Continue reading...