Selenium chromedriver 2.25 TimeoutException cannot determine loading status

Question

I am using python3 on mac os and I have updated chrome, chromedriver and selenium to the latest version. I am getting a TimeoutException, the browser opens correctly but it freezes.

>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> driver = webdriver.Chrome()
# opens browser with blank page
>>> driver.get('http://example.com')
# gets first page OK and then driver literally flashes once
>>> driver.get('http://stackoverflow.com')
>>>
# Cursor loading forever... until TimeoutException

This error is thrown:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 248, in get
    self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: timeout: cannot determine loading status
from timeout: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.003
  (Session info: chrome=54.0.2840.71)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.25.426935 (820a95b0b81d33e42712f9198c215f703412e1a1),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.0 x86_64)

I'm using: Python 3.5.2 ,Chrome 54.0, chromedriver 2.25, selenium 3.0.1

I've tried other versions of chromedriver with no success, also I did not find any solution to this online. Thanks.

EDIT:

Still getting the error from above + getting a new error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 92, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 179, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: session not created exception
from unknown error: bad inspector message: {"method":"Page.loadEventFired","params":{"timestamp":14220,088073}}
  (Session info: chrome=54.0.2840.71)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.25.426935 (820a95b0b81d33e42712f9198c215f703412e1a1),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.0 x86_64)

Answer 1

selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: timeout: cannot determine loading status from timeout: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.003

Issue817:It looks like this issue has been logged as a bug for Selenium.

Someone has answered to get rid from this issue by using the --dns-prefetch-disable option of chrome.

from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--dns-prefetch-disable')
driver = Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

If issue still exists follow this thread may be it solves your problem