Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.[🐛 Bug]:

[Ankita-Bakale]

What happened?

There is a website Magento software testing board. in that website there is link that opens a new window pops up and i switch to the new window containing dropdowns and checkboxes when i try to handle those dropdowns and and click on checkboxes and then lastly cancel button it doesn't work and freeze the execution and get an error saying "Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died".

How can we reproduce the issue?

@Test
// To test that compared product details can be printed or not
  public void printCompare() throws InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
	WebElement printLink = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='column main']/a"));
	String originalWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
	try {
	      printLink.click();
	      // Wait for the new window to open
		WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofSeconds(10));
		wait.until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfWindowsToBe(2));
		// Switch to the new window
		Set<String> windowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();
		for (String windowHandle : windowHandles) {
		   if (!windowHandle.equals(originalWindow)) {
			driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
			List<WebElement> dropDowns =driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@id='container']/select"));
			   for (int i = 0; i < dropDowns.size(); i++) {
			   	WebElement dp = dropDowns.get(i);
			   	if (dp.isEnabled()) {
				   System.out.println("Dropdown is working");
					dp.click();
					sc = new Select(dp);
					switch (i) {
					  case 0:
					  sc.selectByIndex(2);
					  Thread.sleep(1000);
					  break;
					  case 1:
					  sc.selectByVisibleText("Landscape");
					  Thread.sleep(1000);
					  break;
					  case 2:
					  sc.selectByVisibleText("Color");
					  Thread.sleep(1000);
					  break;
					  case 3:
					  sc.selectByIndex(6);
					  Thread.sleep(1000);
					  break;
					  case 4:
					  sc.selectByValue("2");
					  Thread.sleep(1000);
					  break;
					  case 5:
					  sc.selectByVisibleText("Minimum");
					  Thread.sleep(1000);
					  break;
					  case 6:
					  sc.selectByValue("1");
					  Thread.sleep(1000);
					  break;
					}
				} else {
				  System.out.println("Dropdown is not working");
				}
		                WebElement bg = driver.findElement(By.id("cssBackground"));
				bg.click();
				WebElement cancelBtn = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='controls']/cr-button[2]"));
				cancelBtn.click();
				break;
                                driver.switchTo().window(originalWindow);
			   }
			}
		}
		} catch (UnreachableBrowserException e) {
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
		}
	      }

Relevant log output

[RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 7.10.2
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
FAILED: luma.Shopping.printCompare
org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
Build info: version: '4.23.0', revision: '4df0a231af'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.11'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Command: [adc1e56f07d1fef369ee3475f5a1bbd5, clickElement [id]]
Capabilities {acceptInsecureCerts: false, browserName: chrome, browserVersion: 127.0.6533.73, chrome: {chromedriverVersion: 127.0.6533.72 (9755e24ca85a..., userDataDir: C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\T...}, fedcm:accounts: true, goog:chromeOptions: {debuggerAddress: localhost:64963}, networkConnectionEnabled: false, pageLoadStrategy: normal, platformName: windows, proxy: Proxy(), se:cdp: ws://localhost:64963/devtoo..., se:cdpVersion: 127.0.6533.73, setWindowRect: true, strictFileInteractability: false, timeouts: {implicit: 0, pageLoad: 300000, script: 30000}, unhandledPromptBehavior: dismiss and notify, webauthn:extension:credBlob: true, webauthn:extension:largeBlob: true, webauthn:extension:minPinLength: true, webauthn:extension:prf: true, webauthn:virtualAuthenticators: true}
Element: [[ChromeDriver: chrome on windows (adc1e56f07d1fef369ee3475f5a1bbd5)] -> xpath: //div[@class='column main']/a]
Session ID: adc1e56f07d1fef369ee3475f5a1bbd5
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:554)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:223)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.click(RemoteWebElement.java:76)
	at luma.Shopping.printCompare(Shopping.java:405)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:141)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeMethod(TestInvoker.java:686)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethod(TestInvoker.java:230)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.MethodRunner.runInSequence(MethodRunner.java:63)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker$MethodInvocationAgent.invoke(TestInvoker.java:992)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethods(TestInvoker.java:203)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:154)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:134)
	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1511)
	at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:739)
	at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:614)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:421)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:413)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:373)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:312)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:95)
	at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1274)
	at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1208)
	at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1112)
	at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1079)
	at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:115)
	at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:293)
	at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:91)
Caused by: java.io.UncheckedIOException: java.io.IOException: HTTP/1.1 header parser received no bytes
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.jdk.JdkHttpClient.execute0(JdkHttpClient.java:439)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.AddSeleniumUserAgent.lambda$apply$0(AddSeleniumUserAgent.java:42)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter.lambda$andFinally$1(Filter.java:55)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.jdk.JdkHttpClient.execute(JdkHttpClient.java:355)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:187)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.invokeExecute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:216)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:174)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:527)
	... 31 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: HTTP/1.1 header parser received no bytes
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.common.Utils.wrapWithExtraDetail(Utils.java:348)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.Http1Response$HeadersReader.onReadError(Http1Response.java:675)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.Http1AsyncReceiver.checkForErrors(Http1AsyncReceiver.java:302)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.Http1AsyncReceiver.flush(Http1AsyncReceiver.java:268)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.common.SequentialScheduler$LockingRestartableTask.run(SequentialScheduler.java:205)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.common.SequentialScheduler$CompleteRestartableTask.run(SequentialScheduler.java:149)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.common.SequentialScheduler$SchedulableTask.run(SequentialScheduler.java:230)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
	at java.base/sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.throwConnectionReset(SocketChannelImpl.java:394)
	at java.base/sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.read(SocketChannelImpl.java:426)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.SocketTube.readAvailable(SocketTube.java:1170)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.SocketTube$InternalReadPublisher$InternalReadSubscription.read(SocketTube.java:833)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.SocketTube$SocketFlowTask.run(SocketTube.java:181)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.common.SequentialScheduler$SchedulableTask.run(SequentialScheduler.java:230)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.common.SequentialScheduler.runOrSchedule(SequentialScheduler.java:303)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.common.SequentialScheduler.runOrSchedule(SequentialScheduler.java:256)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.SocketTube$InternalReadPublisher$InternalReadSubscription.signalReadable(SocketTube.java:774)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.SocketTube$InternalReadPublisher$ReadEvent.signalEvent(SocketTube.java:957)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.SocketTube$SocketFlowEvent.handle(SocketTube.java:253)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.HttpClientImpl$SelectorManager.handleEvent(HttpClientImpl.java:979)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.HttpClientImpl$SelectorManager.lambda$run$3(HttpClientImpl.java:934)
	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1511)
	at java.net.http/jdk.internal.net.http.HttpClientImpl$SelectorManager.run(HttpClientImpl.java:934)

Operating System

Windows 10

Selenium version

Java 4.23.0

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

Chrome 127.0.6533.73

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

chromedriverVersion: 127.0.6533.72

Are you using Selenium Grid?

4.23.0

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[vaind]

Maybe this is related to the issue I'm facing with android. The stack trace looks very similar as well as the IO exception causing this: appium/java-client#2088 (comment)

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