Launching chrome in headless mode with selenium in Java giving error

This is my code:

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup(); System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "src/main/extras/chromedriver.exe"); ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); options.addArguments("--headless"); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options); driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get(url); 

The last line, getting the URL, is giving this error:

Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.NullPointerException 

I wasn't getting this error before I tried to launch the browser in headless mode.

This is my full error message thing:

"D:\Program Files\Amazon Corretto\jdk11.0.11_9\bin\java.exe" "-javaagent:C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2\lib\idea_rt.jar=59273:C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2\bin" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath 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-p 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Code\Ethermine Tracker JavaFX\target\classes" -m com.traptricker.etherminetrackerjavafx/com.traptricker.etherminetrackerjavafx.Main Dec 30, 2021 9:22:25 PM javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader$ValueElement processValue WARNING: Loading FXML document with JavaFX API of version 17 by JavaFX runtime of version 11.0.1 Starting program... SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details. Starting ChromeDriver 95.0.4638.17 (a9d0719444d4b035e284ed1fce73bf6ccd789df2-refs/branch-heads/4638@{#178}) on port 63013 Only local connections are allowed. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe. ChromeDriver was started successfully. [1640917354.440][WARNING]: This version of ChromeDriver has not been tested with Chrome version 96. Dec 30, 2021 9:22:34 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession INFO: Detected dialect: W3C Dec 30, 2021 9:22:34 PM org.openqa.selenium.devtools.CdpVersionFinder findNearestMatch INFO: Found exact CDP implementation for version 96 Starting ChromeDriver 95.0.4638.17 (a9d0719444d4b035e284ed1fce73bf6ccd789df2-refs/branch-heads/4638@{#178}) on port 53163 Only local connections are allowed. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe. ChromeDriver was started successfully. [1640917356.435][WARNING]: This version of ChromeDriver has not been tested with Chrome version 96. Dec 30, 2021 9:22:36 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession INFO: Detected dialect: W3C Dec 30, 2021 9:22:36 PM org.openqa.selenium.devtools.CdpVersionFinder findNearestMatch INFO: Found exact CDP implementation for version 96 Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.traptricker.etherminetrackerjavafx/com.traptricker.etherminetrackerjavafx.SeleniumScrapper.setUpWebdriver(SeleniumScrapper.java:31) at com.traptricker.etherminetrackerjavafx/com.traptricker.etherminetrackerjavafx.Controller.trackEthermine(Controller.java:54) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)