[🐛 Bug]: Webdriver timeout when instantiating with chrome version 127

[AlexWhitham]

What happened?

Running in a docker container on python:3-slim.
After the Chrome version changed from major 126 to 127 webdriver wouldn't instantiate. If I change the version back to 126, all goes well.

Chrome and Chrome driver versions are 127.0.6533.119

Main code:

Log:
7.355 ChromeDriver 127.0.6533.119 (bdef6783a05f0b3f885591e7d2c7b2aec1a89dea-refs/branch-heads/6533@{#1999})
7.383 Google Chrome 127.0.6533.119
7.386 Creating driver instance
7.387 Selenium version 4
7.605 Starting ChromeDriver 127.0.6533.119 (bdef6783a05f0b3f885591e7d2c7b2aec1a89dea-refs/branch-heads/6533@{#1999}) on port 58889
7.605 Only local connections are allowed.
7.605 Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
7.618 ChromeDriver was started successfully.
7.680 [1724161347.412][INFO]: [44c4b3b1eb309c0ded7c60af221eeb9c] COMMAND InitSession {
7.680 "capabilities": {
7.680 "alwaysMatch": {
7.680 "browserName": "chrome",
7.680 "browserVersion": null,
7.680 "goog:chromeOptions": {
7.680 "args": [ "--headless", "--no-sandbox", "--disable-dev-shm-usage", "--window-size=1920,1080" ],
7.680 "binary": "/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable",
7.680 "extensions": [ ]
7.680 },
7.680 "pageLoadStrategy": "normal"
7.680 },
7.680 "firstMatch": [ {
7.680 } ]
7.680 }
7.680 }
7.681 [1724161347.413][INFO]: Populating Preferences file: {
7.681 "alternate_error_pages": {
7.681 "enabled": false
7.681 },
7.681 "autofill": {
7.681 "enabled": false
7.681 },
7.681 "browser": {
7.681 "check_default_browser": false
7.681 },
7.681 "distribution": {
7.681 "import_bookmarks": false,
7.681 "import_history": false,
7.681 "import_search_engine": false,
7.681 "make_chrome_default_for_user": false,
7.681 "skip_first_run_ui": true
7.681 },
7.681 "dns_prefetching": {
7.681 "enabled": false
7.681 },
7.681 "profile": {
7.681 "content_settings": {
7.681 "pattern_pairs": {
7.681 "https://,": {
7.681 "media-stream": {
7.681 "audio": "Default",
7.681 "video": "Default"
7.681 }
7.681 }
7.681 }
7.681 },
7.681 "default_content_setting_values": {
7.681 "geolocation": 1
7.681 },
7.681 "default_content_settings": {
7.681 "geolocation": 1,
7.681 "mouselock": 1,
7.681 "notifications": 1,
7.681 "popups": 1,
7.681 "ppapi-broker": 1
7.681 },
7.681 "password_manager_enabled": false
7.681 },
7.681 "safebrowsing": {
7.681 "enabled": false
7.681 },
7.681 "search": {
7.681 "suggest_enabled": false
7.681 },
7.681 "translate": {
7.681 "enabled": false
7.681 }
7.681 }
7.681 [1724161347.413][INFO]: Populating Local State file: {
7.681 "background_mode": {
7.681 "enabled": false
7.681 },
7.681 "ssl": {
7.681 "rev_checking": {
7.681 "enabled": false
7.681 }
7.681 }
7.681 }
7.682 [1724161347.414][INFO]: ChromeDriver supports communication with Chrome via pipes. This is more reliable and more secure.
7.682 [1724161347.414][INFO]: Use the --remote-debugging-pipe Chrome switch instead of the default --remote-debugging-port to enable this communication mode.
7.682 [1724161347.414][INFO]: Launching chrome: /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --allow-pre-commit-input --disable-background-networking --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-hang-monitor --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-sync --enable-automation --enable-logging --headless --log-level=0 --no-first-run --no-sandbox --no-service-autorun --password-store=basic --remote-debugging-port=0 --test-type=webdriver --use-mock-keychain --user-data-dir=/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.vdJffZ --window-size=1920,1080 data:,
7.918 [1724161347.650][INFO]: resolved localhost to ["::1","127.0.0.1"]
17.20 timeout: sending signal TERM to command ‘python3’

What browsers and operating systems are you seeing the problem on?

Docker container: Linux, python
Chrome and Chrome driver versions: 127.0.6533.119
Both, selenium 3 and 4 major versions

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