[🐛 Bug]: Inconsistent shutdown behavior between drivers

What happened?

I was trying to use the new feature Selenium Manager using Edge browser Unfortunately, after every successful run of the program, the browser gets automatically closed

Language: Python Editor: Pycharm

Note: Firefox browser is working fine till now.

How can we reproduce the issue?

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Edge()
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")

Relevant log output

It ran successfully, so there is no log to show from the console.

Operating System

Windows 10 pro

Selenium version

Selenium 4.6.0

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

Microsoft Edge 107.0.1418.56

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

No driver has been used

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

[titusfortner]

Did a run through of existing behaviors of different languages:

• Ruby - ensures all drivers are quit with #at_exit; drivers are attached to a process group, which we think also closes all processes opened by the driver, so browsers exit as well.
• Python - ensures all drivers are quit with __del__(), but browsers remain open
• Java - does not close anything at program complete
• .NET - does not close anything at program complete
• JS - (unknown)

Ideally the behavior is the same between languages and browsers, let’s discuss at next TLC meeting.

[titusfortner]

A little in the channel. It was added right after the last tlc meeting.