Google Chrome selenium drivers broken on MacOS because of search engine selection modal

[vrodic]

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Capybara Version:
3.40

Driver Information (and browser if relevant):
selenium_chrome and selenium_chrome_headless

PR #2768 solves this issue.

Expected Behavior

There should be no search engine selection modal.

Actual Behavior

It prevents automated tests from working correctly with errors like
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: unknown error: failed to close window in 20 seconds or Selenium::WebDriver::Error::InvalidArgumentError: invalid argument: 'handle' must be a string

Steps to reproduce

Any Capybara code running on MacOS with selenium_chrome and selenium_chrome_headless has this issue.

[twalpole]

If you know what option to pass to chrome to prevent if from showing the modal you can update your driver config to send that option

[vrodic]

If you know what option to pass to chrome to prevent if from showing the modal you can update your driver config to send that option

this is about built-in configurations (called selenium_chrome and selenium_chrome_headless) being broken because of this new behaviour from Chromium

[bkleinen]

this fixed it for me in rails:

  driven_by :selenium, using: config.driver, 
    screen_size: [1400, 1400],
    options: config.driver_options do |driver_option|
        driver_option.add_argument('--disable-search-engine-choice-screen')
    end