chromedriver mystery: Why does cdriver stick on data:,

Question

It is a conundrum, yesterday my chromedriver automation worked as usual.

Today, it pulls up the cromebrowser, and remains blankscreened, with

data:,

as the URL.

This used to happen with capy/chrome but the URL was

about:blank

Why would this stop working all of a sudden? Is this happening to anyone else?

Answer 1

What we believe happened is that something we did on our system didn't sit with the old version of chromedriver we were using.

Changing to v2.8.241036 fixed the issue.