[🐛 Bug]: visual studio Bug: senenium in headless mode : "--headless=new" cant swich to a new window tab and recognize Xpath web element

[BenSella]

What happened?

" senenium in headless mode : (options.AddArgument("--headless=new")) cant swich to a new window tab and recognize Xpath web element " Environment Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 (2) (64-bit) – Current Version 17.9.3 Project: automation c# DotNet 8.0

Packages: "NUnit" Version="3.14.0"

"NUnit.Analyzers" Version="3.9.0"

"NUnit3TestAdapter" Version="4.5.0"

"Selenium.Support" Version="4.21.0"

"Selenium.WebDriver" Version="4.21.0"

"Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver" Version="125.0.6422.6000"

Note that other attempted solutions did not work... css, Javascript borrowed for a temporary solution for example:

string cssSelector = "mat-card.mat-card.mat-focus-indicator.card:nth-of-type(1)";
Thread.Sleep(5000);
var iWebElement = _driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(cssSelector))

How can we reproduce the issue?

here is the code I use to switch to a new tab (witch works perfectly in normal automation non headless mode)
"

        private void UrlAdressSmokeTest(bool generateNewChrome, IWebElement element, string urlFromAppsettings, WebDriverWait wait, int sleep, RegistriesHomePage page, By by)

        {

            element.Click();

            if (!generateNewChrome)

            {

                string originalWindow = _driver.CurrentWindowHandle;

                wait = new WebDriverWait(_driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20));

                wait.Until(driver => _driver.WindowHandles.Count > 1);

                var allWindows = _driver.WindowHandles;

                string newWindow = allWindows.FirstOrDefault(handle => handle != originalWindow);

                if (newWindow != null)

                {

                    _driver.SwitchTo().Window(newWindow);

                    if (by != null)

                    {

                        try

                        {

                            IWebElement visableEelement = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(by));

                        }

                        catch (Exception ex)

                        {

                            LogToAllure(false, $"could not fined element{by}\non page :{urlFromAppsettings} ");

                        }

                    }

                    else

                    {

                        Thread.Sleep(sleep);

                    }

                    string receavedUrl = _driver.Url;

                    CompareUrl(urlFromAppsettings, receavedUrl);

                    _driver.Close();

                    _driver.SwitchTo().Window(originalWindow);

                }

                else

                {

                    throw new Exception("New window was not found.");

                }

            }

            else

            {

                try

                {

                    IWebElement visableEelement = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(by));

                }

                catch (Exception ex)

                {

                    LogToAllure(false, $"could not fined element{by}\non page :{urlFromAppsettings}\nerror message: {ex} ");

                }

                receavedUrl = _driver.Url;

                CompareUrl(urlFromAppsettings, receavedUrl);

                IWebElement getBackToHomePage = _driver.FindElement(page.ReturToHomePageButton());

                getBackToHomePage.Click();

            }

        }
"

Relevant log output

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverTimeoutException: 'Timed out after 20 seconds'

NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"(//mat-card[@class='mat-card mat-focus-indicator card'])[1]"}

  (Session info: chrome=125.0.6422.142); For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors#no-such-element-exception

Operating System

windows 10

Selenium version

4.21.0

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

Chrom Version 125.0.6422.142 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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

Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver" Version="125.0.6422.6000

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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Hi, @BenSella. 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.