[🐛 Bug]: driver fails calling to minimize_browser() with error: failed to change window state to 'minimized', current state is 'normal' (Linux ENV)

[bwomsm1]

What happened?

I am running the following simple test script:

import time
from selenium import webdriver

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

time.sleep(2)
driver.minimize_window()
time.sleep(5)

driver.quit()

My script failed in line 7 when calling to driver.minimize_window() with the following error:

Message: unknown error: failed to change window state to 'minimized', current state is 'normal'
  (Session info: chrome=132.0.6834.159)

How can we reproduce the issue?

Run the follwing script:

import time
from selenium import webdriver

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

time.sleep(2)
driver.minimize_window()
time.sleep(5)

driver.quit()

Against Linux ENV:

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Relevant log output

Message: unknown error: failed to change window state to 'minimized', current state is 'normal'
  (Session info: chrome=132.0.6834.159)

Operating System

Linux Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Selenium version

Python Selenium 4.26.0

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

Chrome

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

132.0.6834.159

Are you using Selenium Grid?

NO

[github-actions]

@bwomsm1, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[pujagani]

I have tried to reproduce this on MacOS and unable to with Java. I doubt it is language-specific but will try with Python as well. What version of Chromedriver are you using? Does it occur with Firefox or other versions of Chrome?

[pujagani]

Even with python, the behavior is expected.

[bwomsm1]

I am experiencing the problem with ChromeOS, my test is running from the Linux CMD in the Chromebook.

[bwomsm1]

My guess is that if you will run it in the env PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" you will also be able to see the problem

[bwomsm1]

@pujagani and all, any news about this issue? The problem is easily reproducing against Linux environments.

[pujagani]

If it is specific to Linux environments, only reproducible with Chrome, then there is a good chance it is a Chrome issue.

[bwomsm1]

If it is specific to Linux environments, only reproducible with Chrome, then there is a good chance it is a Chrome issue.

It is reproducing with various of Linux OSs, also my team mates are experiencing the problem

[shbenzer]

@bwomsm1 Have you reproduced this error with Firefox, Safari, or Edge?

[bwomsm1]

@shbenzer no, my case is Chrome

[pujagani]

I have tried to go through a few issues where the same error message was seen. In the past, this issue has been related to the ChromeDriver. Many old Chromium bugs reported by users have the same error message. Please file a bug report with them.

SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium#559

[github-actions]

Hi, @bwomsm1.
This issue has been determined to require fixes in ChromeDriver.

You can see if the feature is passing in the Web Platform Tests.

If it is something new, please create an issue with the ChromeDriver team.
Feel free to comment the issues that you raise back in this issue. Thank you.

[cgoldberg]

FWIW, I can reproduce this issue on Debian/Linux with Selenium 4.30 and Chrome/ChromeDriver 134.

calling driver.minimize_window() immediately crashes Chrome with the error message in this issue. The same thing happens with Microsoft Edge, but not with Firefox. (driver.maximize_window() works fine btw)

@bwomsm1 , Have you filed a bug on the Chromium tracker? This definitely seems to be a Chrome/Chromium bug.

I am going to temporarily re-open this issue until we link it to a Chrome bug report.

[bwomsm1]

@cgoldberg I am facing the problem with Chrome, when running in ChromeOS (which is a Debian/Linux based)
I did not raise an issue to ChromeDriver/Chromium, we should.

[cgoldberg]

@bwomsm1 yes, I also reproduced it on Debian (in ChromeOS), though I suspect it happens on any Linux distro, if not every platform.

Can you open a new issue in the Chromium tracker and link to it here? (The link to Chromium tracker is in a previous comment)

[github-actions]

Hi, @bwomsm1.
This issue has been determined to require fixes in ChromeDriver.

You can see if the feature is passing in the Web Platform Tests.

If it is something new, please create an issue with the ChromeDriver team.
Feel free to comment the issues that you raise back in this issue. Thank you.