Failed switching to target chrome 130

[maxshifrin]

Describe the bug
After switching the browser to chrome 130 stable, our automation became flakky. A lot of tests which ran thousands of times without error, are failing when trying to switch to a target (without a change to the underlying product)

Failed switching to target=/some_internal_path/
Error:Browser or page not initialized. Call openBrowser() before using this API
Stack: Error: Browser or page not initialized. Call openBrowser() before using this API
at validate (c:\Users..\automation-tests-iso..\taiko\lib\connection.js:175:11)
at module.exports.switchTo (c:\Users....\node_modules\taiko\lib\taiko.js:205:3)
at module.exports. (c:\Users....\node_modules\taiko\lib\taiko.js:2619:36)
at isSwitchedPage (c:\Users....\taiko\BrowserActions.ts:20:31)
at waitForCondition (c:\Users....\tests\utils\waitFor.ts:32:23)
at waitForHelper (c:\Users....\tests\utils\waitFor.ts:19:5)
at BrowserActions.switchTo (c:\Users....\tests\taiko\BrowserActions.ts:33:9)
at switchTabRegexUrl (c:\Users....\tests\steps\PageActionsSteps.ts:208:9)

To Reproduce
Happens randomly

Error:Browser or page not initialized. Call `openBrowser()` before using this API
Stack: Error: Browser or page not initialized. Call `openBrowser()` before using this API
at validate (c:\Users\..\automation-tests-iso\..\taiko\lib\connection.js:175:11)
at module.exports.switchTo (c:\Users\..\..\node_modules\taiko\lib\taiko.js:205:3)
at module.exports.<computed> (c:\Users\..\..\node_modules\taiko\lib\taiko.js:2619:36)
at isSwitchedPage (c:\Users\..\..\taiko\BrowserActions.ts:20:31)
at waitForCondition (c:\Users\..\..\tests\utils\waitFor.ts:32:23)
at waitForHelper (c:\Users\..\..\tests\utils\waitFor.ts:19:5)
at BrowserActions.switchTo (c:\Users\..\..\tests\taiko\BrowserActions.ts:33:9)
at switchTabRegexUrl (c:\Users\....\tests\steps\PageActionsSteps.ts:208:9)

Versions:

• Taiko: [e.g. 1.0.23 (use taiko --version)]
• OS [e.g. 10.15.6 (19G2021) please be specific ]
• Node.js [e.g. v.12.18.14]

gauge -v
Gauge version: 1.4.3
Commit Hash: f98dd40

Plugins
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html-report (4.3.1)
json-report (0.3.7)
screenshot (0.2.0)
spectacle (0.1.4)
ts (0.1.1)

[fhirter]

Having the same issue on taiko Version: 1.4.1 (Chromium: 128.0.6597.0) RELEASE.
Downgrading Version: 1.3.10 (Chromium: 110.0.5478.0) RELEASE solved the issue.

[kiranpatil-ic]

We also faced the same issue. For now we upgraded the chromium version to match 130 & so far everything is working well!

Until new version of taiko is released, you can go ahead & update the chromium version by doing the following :

• Navigate to node_modules/taiko/package.json
• Find & replace 128.0.6597.0 with 130.0.6723.69
• Find & replace 1327306 with 1356014
• In terminal execute

cd node_modules/taiko
npm install

You should see a message saying updating chromium

[novafluxx]

Also encountered this issue beginning today running Taiko Version: 1.4.1 with Chromium 128

Tried Taiko 1.4.0 and has the same issue.

Even running the Chromium executable directly and browsing Wikipedia we encountered a crash.

We reverted to an older Taiko (1.3.10) for now.

[zabil]

Find & replace 128.0.6597.0 with 130.0.6723.69

@kiranpatil-ic can you please raise a PR for this package.json modification?