[🐛 Bug]: Unable to capture current url and unable to close the child window with a PDF URL from version 4.31.0

[rojanayak]

Description

1. Switching parent window to child window, which is opening with a PDF in Chrome Browser, which is the third tab in browser.
   Trying to capture the URL for PDF opening with new tab, getting a Chrome-extension URL.
   2.Trying to launching the captured URL, getting 'Test Script is failed with java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: chrome-extension'. This scenario worked fine until version 4.29.0.
2. After switching to child window and doing refresh, Trying to capture the URL for PDF opening with new tab 'org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Remote browser did not respond to getCurrentUrl' and 'org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException: no such window: target window already closed
   from unknown error: web view not found'.
3. After switching to child window and doing refresh, Trying to capture the URL for PDF opening with new tab and Trying to launching the captured URL, getting 'org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Remote browser did not respond to getCurrentUrl'.

Reproducible Code

String mainId = driver.getWindowHandle();
		driver.switchTo().window(new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles()).get(2));
		Thread.sleep(2000);
		driver.navigate().refresh();
		Thread.sleep(3000);
	        String pdfUrl = driver.getCurrentUrl();
                driver.close();

Debugging Logs

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException: no such window: target window already closed
from unknown error: web view not found
  (Session info: chrome=134.0.6998.166)
Build info: version: '4.31.0', revision: '1ef9f18787*'
System info: os.name: 'Windows Server 2019', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.10'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Remote browser did not respond to getCurrentUrl
Build info: version: '4.31.0', revision: '1ef9f18787*'
System info: os.name: 'Windows Server 2019', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.10'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver

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ℹ️ Last known working version: 4.21.0 to 4.29.0

[selenium-ci]

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

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[navin772]

Hi @rojanayak, this might be related to #15318, this was fixed by chrome in version 136.0.7097.0 (currently in chrome beta), refer the comment here and this chromium issue tracker - https://issues.chromium.org/issues/396611138#comment21.

You can try running your tests against this version and see if its resolved.