Chrome 74: Deleting cookies takes very long time

Question

I'm facing the issue that it takes approx. of 10 minutes to execute the driver.delete_all_cookies() after upgrading Chrome.

• With Chrome 73, no issues happen
• With Chrome 74, takes 10 minutes to finish this command

Especially, it only happens with headless chrome.

I also tried to upgrade the WebDriver to ChromeDriver 74.0.3729.6, but the issue still persists

Is there any solutions for this one? Thank you very much!

Answer 1

I was having this exact same problem in headless mode with Chrome 74, ChromeDriver & Selenium (via Geb). Once I added the following flag to ChromeDriver everything started working again:

--enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess

I hope this helps you too.