diff --git a/modules/playground/e2e_test/sourcemap/sourcemap_spec.ts b/modules/playground/e2e_test/sourcemap/sourcemap_spec.ts
index 0de005d2e7..2a2155dd8c 100644
--- a/modules/playground/e2e_test/sourcemap/sourcemap_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/playground/e2e_test/sourcemap/sourcemap_spec.ts
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ describe('sourcemaps', function() {
 
     $('error-app .errorButton').click();
 
-    // TODO(tbosch): Bug in ChromeDriver: Need to execute at least one command
-    // so that the browser logs can be read out!
-    browser.executeScript('1+1');
     browser.manage().logs().get(logging.Type.BROWSER).then(function(logs: any) {
       let errorLine: number = null;
       let errorColumn: number = null;
diff --git a/packages/bazel/package.bzl b/packages/bazel/package.bzl
index 8e538d9b10..0c8a34f57c 100644
--- a/packages/bazel/package.bzl
+++ b/packages/bazel/package.bzl
@@ -60,6 +60,16 @@ def rules_angular_dev_dependencies():
         url = "https://github.com/google/brotli/archive/v1.0.5.zip",
     )
 
+    # The TypeScript rules transitively fetch a version of "rules_webtesting", but the version
+    # does not include 239b491e8251588bb46297b899d306ae7024858e which updates the "chromedriver"
+    # version so that e2e tests are able to capture the browser console output. This is needed
+    # for a few e2e tests, so we manually fetch a version that includes that required SHA.
+    http_archive(
+        name = "io_bazel_rules_webtesting",
+        url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_webtesting/archive/1f430d5e1cae10efc953a6511147e21b3bc03a5d.zip",
+        strip_prefix = "rules_webtesting-1f430d5e1cae10efc953a6511147e21b3bc03a5d",
+    )
+
     #############################################
     # Dependencies for generating documentation #
     #############################################