Hello,
We are big fans of @kazurayam’s Chrome Profile Factory (CPF).
We are using it through many test cases / suites / collections.
In short, when executing such a test case, Katalon operates on a (temporary) “copy” of an existing Chrome profile, with some specific pre-existing setup. This works very well.
Our target machine is now running Chrome 98.
We have been experiencing a weird issue, leading to unexpected KOs.
When manually opening one “source” Chrome profile, we just get one empty tab. Very normal.
When Katalon opens a “copy” of this Chrome profile (instantiated by the CPF), its gets two tabs: First, the infamous “What’s new” tab (chrome://whats-new/); second, an empty tab.
Then Katalon operates on the second tab. In this tab, it seems to does what it is asked to do… until it can’t. More specifically, it seems that:
(a) most of Katalon’s WebUI convenient functions are smart enough to understand which tab that they are expected to operate on.
(b) but some functions are not smart enough. So, typically, Katalon logs that it has clicked on some button, but it has not… and then it complains that the next screen is not displayed as expected.
One funny detail: if you cease to be a passive observer, and click on the second tab while Katalon is working, this helps Katalon. Of course, this does not solve the issue.
We are in the process of making sure that we use only functions of the (a) category. We’ll say more on this thread when we have confirmation.
Has anybody experienced something similar?
Is there any way to tell the ChromeDriver that it must not display the “What’s new” tab?
The last funny thing is that, in our experience, the “What’s new” tab is not always displayed… For some profiles it is; for other profiles it is not. Depending on your perspective, it’s very funny or very weird or very annoying.
Many cheers,
– Michel