[🐛 Bug]: When starting chromedriver with add_argument(f"--load-extension={extension_load}") - BIDI connection make Page.* commands unavailable

[HermesNWO]

What happened?

When starting chromedriver with the load-extension argument, BiDi connection won't makes the Page.* commands available/working.

Below easy step to reproduce

How can we reproduce the issue?

... driver loads
driver_options.add_argument(f"--load-extension={extension_load}")
... driver start no headless

async with self.driver.bidi_connection() as connection:
    self.cdp_bidi_main_session, self.cdp_bidi_main_devtools, self.cdp_cdp = connection.session, connection.devtools, connection.cdp
    await self.cdp_bidi_main_session.execute(self.cdp_bidi_main_devtools.page.enable())

Relevant log output

DEBUG:POST http://localhost:34881/session {'capabilities': {'firstMatch': [{}], 'alwaysMatch': {'browserName': 'chrome', 'pageLoadStrategy': <PageLoadStrategy.normal: 'normal'>, 'goog:chromeOptions': {'prefs': {'credentials_enable_service': False, 'profile.password_manager_enabled': False, 'webrtc.ip_handling_policy': 'disable_non_proxied_udp', 'webrtc.multiple_routes_enabled': False, 'webrtc.nonproxied_udp_enabled': False, 'intl.accept_languages': 'fr-FR', 'intl.timezone': 'Europe/Paris'}, 'excludeSwitches': ['enable-automation'], 'extensions': [], 'args': ['--proxy-server=socks5://127.0.0.1:35001', '--enable-logging=true', '--log-level=3', '--no-sandbox', '--ignore-certificate-errors', '--disable-popup-blocking', '--blink-settings=imagesEnabled=true', '--window-position=0,0', '--window-size=1920,1080', '--remote-debugging-port=9222', '--remote-allow-origins=http://localhost:9222', '--load-extension=/home/bb/Documents/$$$/addons/I-still-don-t-care-about-cookies']}}}}
DEBUG:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":{"capabilities":{"acceptInsecureCerts":false,"browserName":"chrome","browserVersion":"123.0.6312.86","chrome":{"chromedriverVersion":"123.0.6312.86 (9b72c47a053648d405376c5cf07999ed626728da-refs/branch-heads/6312@{#698})","userDataDir":"/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.i2pRuK"},"fedcm:accounts":true,"goog:chromeOptions":{"debuggerAddress":"localhost:9222"},"networkConnectionEnabled":false,"pageLoadStrategy":"normal","platformName":"linux","proxy":{},"setWindowRect":true,"strictFileInteractability":false,"timeouts":{"implicit":0,"pageLoad":300000,"script":30000},"unhandledPromptBehavior":"dismiss and notify","webauthn:extension:credBlob":true,"webauthn:extension:largeBlob":true,"webauthn:extension:minPinLength":true,"webauthn:extension:prf":true,"webauthn:virtualAuthenticators":true},"sessionId":"99448360b81ee3f8688cb4f00b1f6e9a"}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Content-Length': '846', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
DEBUG:Finished Request
DEBUG:POST http://localhost:34881/session/99448360b81ee3f8688cb4f00b1f6e9a/goog/cdp/execute {'cmd': 'Emulation.setGeolocationOverride', 'params': {'latitude': 48.8582, 'longitude': 2.3387, 'accuracy': 1000}}
DEBUG:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":{}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Content-Length': '12', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
DEBUG:Finished Request
DEBUG:POST http://localhost:34881/session/99448360b81ee3f8688cb4f00b1f6e9a/goog/cdp/execute {'cmd': 'Emulation.setLocaleOverride', 'params': {'locale': 'fr-FR'}}
DEBUG:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":{}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Content-Length': '12', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
DEBUG:Finished Request
DEBUG:POST http://localhost:34881/session/99448360b81ee3f8688cb4f00b1f6e9a/goog/cdp/execute {'cmd': 'Emulation.setTimezoneOverride', 'params': {'timezoneId': 'Europe/Paris'}}
DEBUG:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":{}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Content-Length': '12', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
DEBUG:Finished Request
DEBUG:POST http://localhost:34881/session/99448360b81ee3f8688cb4f00b1f6e9a/goog/cdp/execute {'cmd': 'Page.getFrameTree', 'params': {}}
DEBUG:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":{"frameTree":{"frame":{"adFrameStatus":{"adFrameType":"none"},"crossOriginIsolatedContextType":"NotIsolated","domainAndRegistry":"","gatedAPIFeatures":[],"id":"3E4BA21EACF4205817657C425061EAEB","loaderId":"B55C2BD04DC8AEBCECC275E95F26F952","mimeType":"text/plain","secureContextType":"InsecureScheme","securityOrigin":"://","url":"data:,"}}}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Content-Length': '351', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
DEBUG:Finished Request
DEBUG:POST http://localhost:34881/session/99448360b81ee3f8688cb4f00b1f6e9a/goog/cdp/execute {'cmd': 'Page.getFrameTree', 'params': {}}
DEBUG:Remote response: status=200 | data={"value":{"frameTree":{"frame":{"adFrameStatus":{"adFrameType":"none"},"crossOriginIsolatedContextType":"NotIsolated","domainAndRegistry":"","gatedAPIFeatures":[],"id":"3E4BA21EACF4205817657C425061EAEB","loaderId":"B55C2BD04DC8AEBCECC275E95F26F952","mimeType":"text/plain","secureContextType":"InsecureScheme","securityOrigin":"://","url":"data:,"}}}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Content-Length': '351', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
DEBUG:Finished Request
Exception in thread Thread-2 (__capture_targets_creation):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 1045, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 982, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/bb/Documents/$$$/modules/driver_emulation_injector.py", line 159, in __capture_targets_creation
    trio.run(self.__capture_targets_creation_bidi)
  File "/home/bb/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/trio/_core/_run.py", line 2262, in run
    raise runner.main_task_outcome.error
  File "/home/bb/Documents/$$$/modules/driver_emulation_injector.py", line 276, in __capture_targets_creation_bidi
    await self.cdp_bidi_main_session.execute(self.cdp_bidi_main_devtools.page.enable())
  File "/home/bb/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/bidi/cdp.py", line 226, in execute
    raise response
selenium.webdriver.common.bidi.cdp.BrowserError: BrowserError<code=-32601 message='Page.enable' wasn't found> None

Operating System

Linux

Selenium version

4.19.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chromedriver 123 - 122

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chromedriver 123 - 122

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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Thank you!

[diemol]

Was this working before, or are you trying this for the first time? I believe our BiDi support in Python needs work.

@AutomatedTester do you know if this should be working?

[HermesNWO]

I have also tried with Selenium 4.16.0 and Chromedriver 122 and then updated to see if any chance of work but nothing... And this is the first time I implement BIDI for Target.* related, and it doesn't work... For others like Network.* it also doesn't work and don't start.

[HermesNWO]

Actually with my different tries, it happen only with this extension : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-still-dont-care-about-c/edibdbjcniadpccecjdfdjjppcpchdlm, for the others it works.

[diemol]

It seems to be an issue with the extension, as mentioned in the extension reviews.

I will close this as the root cause is outside Selenium.

[HermesNWO]

No this is a real issue, for example it also stop working with this extensions : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ember-inspector/bmdblncegkenkacieihfhpjfppoconhi

[HermesNWO]

Okay I have found the solution : after reading cdps logs, we can see that the initial BiDi session is using the first target found in the list to make a general session. Indeed we don't want to attach to the first but the last element of the list :

Modify async def bidi_connection(self): in webdriver.py and use -1 instead of 0

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