On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:49:16 +0100
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> Package: chromium-driver
> Version: 98.0.4758.80-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> i've been using chromium-driver in a small selenium python3 script
> almost daily for more than a year now.
> everything worked nicely until within the last few days, where my script
> suddenly started to timeout.
>
> on investigation, it seems that the problem is that creating a new
> instance of the chrome driver will hang (hang most of the time).
>
> The problem can be reproduced with the following one liner:
>
> python3 -c "from selenium import webdriver; webdriver.Chrome()"
>
> I just ran this snippet 10 times, and in 3 cases it returned immediately
> (which is expected), and in 7 case it would hang forever showing a
> chromium instance that appears to be loading a "data:," URI forever (see
> attached screenshot).
>
> with a 70% failure rate, this makes this webdriver practically useless.
>
Hi, is this failure still occurring with chromium-driver 99?
