[🐛 Bug]: selenium-manager hangs when trying to use selenium against electron app

[rasjani]

What happened?

When trying to use python seleniun bindings that have selenium-manager already in and trying to launch Electron app, selenium-manager hangs indefinitely(?) in https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/py/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.py#L108

Im creating a webdriver and passing options to it to point browser binary to an electron app like this;

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
signal_electron = Options()
signal_electron.binary_location = "/Applications/Signal.app/Contents/MacOS/Signal"

Same code works with older selenium releases (4.0.9 was my base line) since i do have correct chromedriver in path that matches the electron version.

Worth pointing out that i have following env variables set:

SE_OFFLINE=true
SE_DEBUG=true
SE_AVOID_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=true
SE_AVOID_STATS=true

How can we reproduce the issue?

Since I'm actually utilizing robot framework's SeleniumLibrary, i dont happen to have "pure python" implementation to reproduce. However, ask here or ping me on selenium slack and i can provide more details (rasjani on slack)

Relevant log output

none at this time

Operating System

macos ventura

Selenium version

python 4.2.0

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

chrome electron

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

electron 29.1.5 and ChromeDriver 122.0.6261.130

Are you using Selenium Grid?

nope

[github-actions]

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

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[rasjani]

With some help from @diemol -- i managed to to prevent the hanging by providing ChromeService with appropriate chromedriver path -- however, i sort of expected that setting SE_OFFLINE would prevent any selenium-manager hangups and fallback on chromedriver in the PATH .. Feel free to close if this is not deemed as a bug.