[🐛 Bug]: cannot determine loading status from no such window

[lijingmu]

What happened?

Greetings. I am using javascript selenium-webdriver. I encountered one issue in chromium 112, selenium 4.12.0:

WebDriverError: unknown error: failed to wait for extension background page to load: chrome-extension://xxxx/_generated_background_page.html from unknown error: cannot determine loading status from no such window
at   Object.throwDecodedError   (xxx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:524:15)
at   parseHttpResponse   (xxx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:601:13)
at   Executor.execute   (xxx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:529:28)
at   process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

The issue is not happened when I use selenium 4.1.2. It happened occasional in long running.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Is it possible the version issues? I need to use chrome 112. Which version of selenium-webdriver javascript client is recommended?

How can we reproduce the issue?

• Add one chrome extension
• Open one webpage with chromium 112
• Running for 2 hours.
• It may happen one or two times.

options.addExtensions(myExtensionPlugin);
options.addArguments('--allowlisted-extension-id=xxxx');

Relevant log output

WebDriverError: unknown error: failed to wait for extension background page to load:
chrome-extension://xxxx/_generated_background_page.html   from unknown error:
cannot determine loading status from no such window
at   Object.throwDecodedError   (xxx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:524:15)
at   parseHttpResponse   (xxx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:601:13)
at   Executor.execute   (xxx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:529:28)
at   process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

Operating System

Linux x86_64

Selenium version

javascript selenium-webdriver 4.12.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chromium 112.0.5615.0

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver 112.0.5615.0

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

[github-actions]

@lijingmu, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[diemol]

We cannot troubleshoot old versions of Selenium. Please update and provide a way to reproduce the issue, avoid narratives and provide a code snippet with all dependencies to reproduce the issue.

[github-actions]

Hi, @lijingmu.
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[lijingmu]

Thanks for your response. I have upgraded selenium-webdriver to 4.20.0 the latest one. Now it is much better. With selenium-webdriver 4.20.0 javascript client + chromium 112, it is more stable. I can isolate the issue to a small scope. The intermittent issue of unknown error: cannot determine loading status from no such window happened sometimes when click on the web element and page self-refreshed e.g. click on the summary link on the navigation bar on this page . Sample code is as below:

let element = await driver.findElement(By.linkText(`Summary`));
console.log("Scroll down to Summary");
await driver.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView()", element);
console.log("Click on Summary");
await driver.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

Sometimes it failed at click await driver.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element); randomly

Failed to execute command executeScript {"script":"arguments[0].click();","args":[{"element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f7 unknown error: cannot determine loading status from no such window
WebDriverError: unknown error: cannot determine loading status
    from no such window
      (Session info: chrome=112.0.5615.0)
        at Object.throwDecodedError (xx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:524:15)
        at parseHttpResponse (xx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:601:13)
        at Executor.execute (xxx/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:529:28)
        at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

If you have any suggestions about how to update the test script, it will also be helpful.

[pujagani]

Thank you for the update. The code snippet shared is not complete. Can you please provide a complete reproducible test script? #13943 (comment)

[diemol]

What happens when you use the latest Chrome version?