Chrome opens with “Data;” with selenium chromedriver

Question

Trying to open " Google " or any other page (website) from Chrome via selenium chrome driver in python.

The code is:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from time import sleep
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://google.com')

However, this opens my chrome window with the specified link and "data;" tab.

Why that data; tab opens? How to fix it?

Using latest versions of Chrome and Chromedriver

Answer 1

You don't need as much module for this just remove all of those apart from: from selenium import webdriver

And try again you will not get another tab with congaing data.

Answer 2

import time

time.sleep(1)
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])
time.sleep(1)

Answer 3

I'm not sure if its the same problem, but some time ago I made an exe script to run in another PCs and in one of the PCs selenium just didn't worked with Chrome.

This is the question I posted, but the answers didn't help me, hope it works with you: Chromedriver do not open a new session, it opens a new tab in a existing session

If it doesn't work, I made a workaround to run with Firefox instead of Chrome to ensure it would work properly.

Answer 4

With selenium 4 (or newer), you can use the following code to launch a new browser, (without the Chrome is being controlled message), and then the browser navigates to Google in the same tab:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
service = ChromeService()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
driver.get('https://google.com')