Cannot Hide Geckodriver console window

[ReMiOS]

System

• Version: geckodriver 0.32.0
• Platform: Windows 11 / Python 3.9.13
• Firefox: 108.0.1
• Selenium: 4.6.0 and above

Testcase

After updating Selenium from 4.5.0 to any higher version the geckodriver console window cannot be hidden. ( using Pyinstaller with --noconsole and --onefile option )

I've tried various options in the code, but none seems to hide the console window

Using CREATE_NO_WINDOW worked until selenium v4.6.0:

service = Service( geckodriver )
service.creationflags = subprocess.CREATE_NO_WINDOW

Tried adding the code below, but without result options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')

flag = 0x08000000  # No-Window flag
webdriver.common.service.subprocess.Popen = functools.partial(webdriver.common.service.subprocess.Popen, creationflags=flag )
or webdriver.common.service.subprocess.Popen = functools.partial( subprocess.Popen, creationflags=flag )

[whimboo]

Geckodriver doesn't open a console at all. This is all done by Selenium. As you said it regressed after upgrading to a new Selenium version. As such please file an issue against Selenium.

[ReMiOS]

Thanks for your reply.

I've created an issue at Selenium: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/11465