before async launches multiple browser windows

Strange behaviour I am experiencing when using before. I have to always use the async version as otherwise my tests timeout. But as soon as I do use the async version it opens two browsers, one is blank.

I’m following the docs here: http://nightwatchjs.org/guide#using-before-each-and-after-each-hooks which says that I can indeed use it without a callback,

  // Lanuches a single browser but times out because done() has not been called.
  // "Error: timeout of 20000ms exceeded. Ensure the done() callback is being called in this test."
  before(client => {
      client.url('http://google.com');
  });

  // Launches two browser windows and the first `it` fails because
  // it runs on the second window which has not navigated to the right URL.
  before((client, done) => {
      client.url('http://google.com');
      done();
  });

node v4.2.3 nightwatch 0.9.3 with mocha test runner

[ghost]

I had this problem as well - that two windows were opened with browser.url inside beforeEach and only one of the browsers loads up the url provided.

I was able to solve it by pushing the steps inside browser.status as follows:

function beforeEach(browser, done) {
    // getting the session info
    browser.status(function (/*result*/) {
        // console.log(result.value);
        browser.url('http://www.google.com');
        done();
    });
}

@beatfactor is this correct? Should this be added maybe as a comment inside the example at link: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch-docs/blob/master/guide/using-nightwatch/external-globals.md

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