Detects installed Chrome version, validates supported ChromeDriver version, provides proper ChromeDriver URL if mismatched.

Browser.java

import org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import java.io.File;

public class Browser {

    public static boolean init() {
        boolean isWindows = System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows");

        // Get currently installed Chrome version, or null
        String version = Version.getInstalled();
        System.out.println("Chrome version installed: " + version);

        // Validate and version check
        if (version == null || !Version.isSupported(version)) {
             System.out.println("Chrome is not installed or un-supported version.");
            return false;
        }

        // Get ChromeDriver path
        File chromeDriver = new File("path//to//chromedriver" + (isWindows ? ".exe" : ""));

        if (!chromeDriver.exists()) {
             System.out.println("ChromeDriver not found, download and place in folder.\n"
                    + Version.getDriverURL(version));
            return false;
        }

        // Set PATH to ChromeDriver
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriver.getPath());
        return true;
    }

    @Nullable
    public static WebDriver open() {
        WebDriver driver;

        try {
            driver = new ChromeDriver();
        } catch (SessionNotCreatedException ignored) {
             System.out.println("Detected invalid ChromeDriver version for installed version of Chrome.\n"
                    + Version.getDriverURL(""));
            return null;
        }

        driver.get("https://google.com");
        return driver;
    }
}

Version.java

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Version {

    /**
     * @TESTED Windows 10 / Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
     */

    static final String[] supportedVersions = new String[]{"104.0.5112", "103.0.5060", "102.0.5005"};

    static boolean isSupported(String version) {
        for (String sv : supportedVersions) if (version.startsWith(sv)) return true;
        return false;
    }

    static String getDriverURL(String version) {
        switch (version) {
            case "104.0.5112":
                return "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=104.0.5112.29/";
            case "103.0.5060.53":
                return "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=103.0.5060.53/";
            case "102.0.5005.61":
                return "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=102.0.5005.61/";
            default:
                break;
        }

        return "https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/downloads";
    }

    static final String REG_QUERY = "reg query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Google\\Chrome\\BLBeacon /v version";

    static final String VER_QUERY = "chromium-browser --version";

    static String read(boolean useRegistry) throws Exception {
        Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(useRegistry ? REG_QUERY : VER_QUERY);
        BufferedReader stdInput = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));

        final String keyWord = (useRegistry ? "version" : "Chromium");
        String msg, version = null;

        while ((msg = stdInput.readLine()) != null) {
            if (msg.contains(keyWord)) {
                // Formatted args
                String[] parts = msg.trim().replaceAll(" +", " ").split(" ");

                if (useRegistry) {
                    //  version    REG_SZ    104.0.5112...
                    version = parts[2];
                } else {
                    // Chormium  104.0.5060.53 snap
                    version = parts[1];
                }
                break;
            }
        }

        stdInput.close();
        if (version != null) return version;
        else throw new NullPointerException("Failed to read query output!");
    }

    /**
     * Each version of ChromeDriver supports Chrome with matching major, minor, and build version numbers.
     * For example, ChromeDriver 103.0.5060.114 supports all Chrome versions that start with 103.0.5060
     *
     * @return current version of installed chrome, or NULL
     */
    @Nullable
    public static String getInstalled(boolean isWindows) {
        String version;

        try {
            version = read(isWindows);
        } catch (Exception ignored) {
            return null;
        }

        return version;
    }
}

Example usage:

if (!Browser.init()) return;
WebDriver driver = Browser.open();

if (driver == null) {
// Invalid ChromeDriver version or other error
return;
}

// Browser is open ready to be controlled