WebDriverError: unknown error: cannot determine loading status from unknown error: unhandled inspector error: {"code":-32000,"message":"Inspected target navigated or closed"}

[allbigbopper]

Hi!
We started experiencing this problem on latest chrome browser versions

WebDriverError: unknown error: cannot determine loading status
from unknown error: unhandled inspector error: {"code":-32000,"message":"Inspected target navigated or closed"}
  (Session info: chrome=78.0.3904.87)
    at Object.throwDecodedError (/Users/allamudruk/Projects/support-site-frontend/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:550:15)
    at parseHttpResponse (/Users/allamudruk/Projects/support-site-frontend/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:542:13)
    at Executor.execute (/Users/allamudruk/Projects/support-site-frontend/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:468:26)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)

• Node Version: 10.13.0
• Protractor Version: 6.0.0
• Angular Version: ``
• Browser(s): chrome=78.0.3904.87
• Operating System and Version macOS Mojave 10.14.6

module.exports = {
  capabilities: {
    browserName: 'chrome',
    build: 'cucumber-js-browserstack',
  },
  framework: 'custom',
  frameworkPath: require.resolve('protractor-cucumber-framework'),
  specs: ['../tests/features/*.feature'],
  cucumberOpts: {
    require: ['../tests/step_definitions/*.js', '../tests/features/support/*.js'],
    tags: false,
    profile: false,
    'no-source': true,
    format: ['json:tests/report/cucumber-report.json', 'rerun:protractor_output/rerun.txt'],
  },
  theme: 'bootstrap',
  jsonFile: path.resolve('tests/report/cucumber-report.json'),
  output: path.resolve('tests/report/cucumber-report.html'),
  reportSuiteAsScenarios: true,
  launchReport: true,
};

onPrepare: async () => {
    await browser.waitForAngularEnabled(false);
  },

Before({timeout: TIMEOUT}, async () => {
  await browser.driver.get(`${browser.logoutUrl}/logout?continue=${browser.baseUrl}`);
  await browser.wait(protractor.ExpectedConditions.urlContains(`${browser.baseUrl}/`), 20000);
  await browser.driver.get(browser.baseUrl);
  await browser.driver.manage().addCookie({
    name: 'abcdef',
    value: 'true',
    domain: '.com',
  });
});

It almost always fails on first page load or login step

await formPage.goto()
await loginPage.addUsername(freeUsername);
await loginPage.addUserPassword(password);
return await loginPage.clickLoginButton();

async goto() {
    return await browser.get(this.url, this.timeout.xl);
  }

async addUsername(username) {
    await this.waitForElementAvailable(this.usernameField, this.timeout.l);
    await this.usernameField.clear();
    return await this.usernameField.sendKeys(username);
  }

  async addUserPassword(password) {
    await this.waitForElementAvailable(this.passwordField, this.timeout.l);
    await this.passwordField.clear();
    return await this.passwordField.sendKeys(password);
  }

  async clickLoginButton() {
    await this.waitForElementAvailable(this.loginButton, this.timeout.l);
    return await this.loginButton.click();
  }

async clickElement(locator) {
    await browser.executeScript('document.activeElement.blur();');
    return await locator.click().then(
      async promise => {
        return promise;
      },
      async err => {
      console.log('Element is not clickable at point. Other element would receive the click');
      }
    );
  }

[Dan0803]

Have you had any update regarding this, as we are experiencing the same problem intermittently, having updated to the latest Chrome Browser version (78.0.3904.97).

[jweaver66]

I am having the IDENTICAL issue and am unable to resolve.

[preethiraoatprospa]

Was anyone able to resolve the issue, I have been facing it since 4 days

[Octopus134]

I had this issue sometimes 3 weeks ago, but now not any more.
I remember that an Iframe seems to have been the reason, which I had to look in and did not succeed, because it was in a way not there yet, the loading has slowed down.
Because waiting for the iframe to get visible, caused also an error (this or a different; i do not remember) I let my browser sleep for a second, and then wait in a loop for visibility of the iframe and then go on.

[kosh01]

I am getting this error only when I execute my test cases using Jenkins. One more strange things is, error is not consistent. It fails test cases randomly.

Let me know if you found a solution already.

[NikitaV1]

Would be fixed in chromedriver 80. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=3164&q=&colspec=ID%20Status%20Pri%20Owner%20Summary Use 76 it should resolve this problem

[MummanaSubramanya]

Facing this same issue on v79. Any update?

[junaid18404]

I'm also facing same issue. Any help ?

[Treborium]

I'm also facing this issue with v79, however sometimes it works. Not sure what the cause for this is

[heathkit]

Having this issue in v80 - it happens about 25% of the time when I navigate to a page that does a redirect. Anyone have a workaround? Catching the error and retrying doesn't work.

[vsravuri]

@heathkit

This is fixed in v81.

Issue 3252: Getting org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot determine loading status

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=3252&sort=-id&colspec=ID%20Status%20Pri%20Owner%20Summary&q=unhandled%20inspector%20error&can=1

Chrome v81 will be stable on April 7th. To overcome this issue, i built a custom chrome driver.

https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule

[cytora-tarren]

I am still having this issue using chrome version 81.
This is the error i get when running my automated tests:

- Failed: unknown error: cannot determine loading status from target frame detached (Session info: chrome=81.0.4044.92)

However, there have been some occasions where this does not occur and I am able to interact with the iframe (i.e. sendKeys to element) but most of the time it throws the above error. I can't seem to find anything out there to resolve this issue. HELP NEEDED please! Even if someone could just explain the issue to me from what they know about it. Thanks

[vsravuri]

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=3361&can=2&q=&sort=-id&colspec=ID%20Status%20Pri%20Owner%20Summary

This is how i am able to workaround this issue while switching frame.

this.fn_SwitchToMainFrame = async () => {
let success = false;
let count = 0, max_tries = 40;
while (!success && count++ < max_tries) {
try {
await browser.driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
await browser.driver.switchTo().frame(await browser.driver.findElement(by.xpath("//frame[@name="mainframe"]")));
success = true;
} catch (e) {
console.log('fn_SwitchToMainFrame ' + e);
}
if (success) {
await browser.driver.sleep(500);
break;
}
}
if (!success) {
console.log('Wasn't't successful after 40 retries');
}
};

[cytora-tarren]

When I am on a page I run the below to switch focus to the iframe:

browser.switchTo().frame(1);
//browser actions here

After clicking a button on the first iframe, it opens another iframe attached to the DOM, so now to interact with this new iframe I run:
(note - that the first iframe is still open behind this new iframe)

browser.switchTo().defaultContent();
browser.switchTo().frame(2);

At this point everything works perfectly fine, so on the second iframe, I log into an account, one successful log in, the iframe is automatically closed and I can see the first iframe again. At this point I run the below code to interact with the first iframe again:

browser.switchTo().defaultContent();
browser.switchTo().frame(1);
browser.sleep(4000);
element(by.css("input[placeholder='Type an address and press enter...'")).sendKeys('fake address');

This is when i receive the error message below:
- Failed: unknown error: cannot determine loading status from target frame detached (Session info: chrome=81.0.4044.92)