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selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: bad inspector message #8415

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@rajanant

🐛 Bug Report

Same story as in this issue
#7359

While try to get html from page with some unicode characters get such exception:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: bad inspector message

To Reproduce

Install python and selenium.
Run this script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

parsed_elem = ['.main', 'div[class="grid"]']
def find_elem(e):
    try:
        elem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector(e)
        return elem
    except:
        pass

url = "https://rajanant.github.io/"

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("--enable-logging")
options.add_argument("--v=1")
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")

your_exec_path = "path_to_chromedriver_linux64_83/chromedriver"
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=options,
                          executable_path=your_exec_path)
browser.get(url)
try:
    divs1 = [x for x in map(find_elem, parsed_elem) if x]
    page = divs1[0].get_attribute('innerHTML')
except Exception as e0:
    raise e0
finally:
    browser.close()
with open('/tmp/file.html', 'w') as tmpf:
    tmpf.write(page)

Raises excpetion:
https://github.com/rajanant/rajanant.github.io/blob/master/selenium_bug.txt

Expected behavior

Browser opens web page and save file in /tmp folder. Without any exceptions.

Test script or set of commands reproducing this issue

see To Reproduce section

Environment

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Browser: Chrome
Browser version: 83.0.4103.97
Browser Driver version: ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39 (ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs/branch-heads/4103@{#416})
Language Bindings version: Python 3.8.3
Selenium Grid version (if applicable): None

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