[🐛 Bug]: New Tab gstatic.com/generate_204

[e-dsouza]

What happened?

New Tab gstatic.com/generate_204 opens on chrome while running test, and url is blocked in my org within grid. Havent seen this before version 4.31.

Command used to start Selenium Grid with Docker (or Kubernetes)

deployed 4.31.0-20250414 images to openshift

New Tab gstatic.com/generate_204 opens on chrome while running test, and url is blocked in my org, hence tests failing

Relevant log output

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Operating System

Openshift

Docker Selenium version (image tag)

4.31.0-20250414

Selenium Grid chart version (chart version)

N/A

[github-actions]

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

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