Sometimes randomly test fails at first page only with URl: data:text/html,chromewebdata and does not execute driver.get("URL")

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Start the test.
2.Chrome browser is launched.
3.driver.get does not work and crashes sometime with initial URL 
data:text/html,chromewebdata.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected Output: URL mentioned in driver.get("xxx") should always open.
Actual: Sometimes browser closes at "data:text/html,chromewebdata" page only 
randomly.

Selenium version: selenium-java-2.42.1
OS: Windows 7
Browser: Chrome
Browser version: 36.0.1985.125 m

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vaibha...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2014 at 11:45

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I'm seeing the same behavior described here - Tests using chromedriver 
sometimes work fine, and sometimes return "data:text/html,chromewebdata" as the 
URL after a get on a page which should load correctly.

Unfortunately can't provide any useful information about how reproduce it, but 
would happily take some time to add further instrumentation and report back if 
anyone can suggest a good direction to investigate.

I'm currently using selenium 2.35.0 and chrome 29.0.1547.76, but I plan to try 
upgrading things in our infrastructure to see if the problem still occurs.

Original comment by matthew....@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2014 at 11:46

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Monica Lynn Brown

Original comment by goodstuf...@gmail.com on 8 Jan 2015 at 2:53

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Original comment by samu...@chromium.org on 21 Feb 2015 at 12:18

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Issue is not reproducible . 

Code:-
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", 
"/usr/local/google/home/gmanikpure/Downloads/chromedriver");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

Tested on below Configurations:-
A]
 Linux ubuntu
 Selenium version – 2.45
 Chromedriver version – 2.14
 Chrome browser version – 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit)
 Java – 7

[B]
Windows 8.1
Chromedriver 2.14
Selenium version – 2.44
Java 8
Chrome browser - 41.0.2272.64(64-bit)

Please let us know if it differs from what you are doing

Original comment by gmanikp...@chromium.org on 2 Mar 2015 at 6:58