Karma opens three times in Chrome. Karma Bug?

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For some reason, Karma tries three times to open Chrome, and thinks it's unsuccessful. It works fine once it loads, and shows that it connects on two sockets. I have Chrome installed in a different location than Karma defaults to, so I had to link to the absolute path of Chrome. I suspect this may have something to do with why it doesn't "see" that Chrome is running. Is this a bug or is there something I can do to fix this? Here is my config: ``` module.exports = function(config) { config.set({ // base path, that will be used to resolve files and exclude basePath: '', // frameworks to use frameworks: ['jasmine'], // list of files / patterns to load in the browser files: [ '../../Scripts/angular.js', '../../Scripts/angular-*.js', '*.spec.js', '*.js' ], // list of files to exclude exclude: [ '../../Scripts/angular-scenario.js', ], // test results reporter to use // possible values: 'dots', 'progress', 'junit', 'growl', 'coverage' reporters: ['progress'], // web server port port: 9876, /…

Accepted Answer

For me, closing the browser window by pressing the X button would cause this issue to occur. There is a flag called retryLimit which is set to 2 by default, see http://karma-runner.github.io/2.0/config/configuration-file.html.

If you set that to zero, by adding the line

```
retryLimit : 0,
```

somewhere in your config.set structure, the browser doesn't pop up after you close it. Though, the fact that that flag exists makes me think that you are normally supposed to close karma by some other means...

Karma opens three times in Chrome. Karma Bug?

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