title: Selenium doesn't open the specified URL and shows data:,
body: <p>I am trying to open the URL using selenium in chrome. I have chromedriver available with me.</p>
  
  <p>following is the code I want to execute.</p>
  
  <pre><code>from selenium import webdriver
  
  chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
  chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-infobars")
  
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="./chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)
  driver.get("https://google.com")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The browser is opened successfully but it doesn't open the specified URL. The URL in the browser is <code>data:,</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please!</p>
  
  <p>Please see the attached image.</p>
  
  <p>Note: Selenium version : 3.14.0</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BaW7U.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BaW7U.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I get the following error on closing the chrome tab.</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "test.py", line 6, in &lt;module&gt;
      driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="./chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)
    File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 75, in __init__
      desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
    File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 156, in __init__
      self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
    File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 251, in start_session
      response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
    File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 320, in execute
      self.error_handler.check_response(response)
    File "/home/speedious/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
      raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
  selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally
    (chrome not reachable)
    (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
    (Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591071 (0b695ff80972cc1a65a5cd643186d2ae582cd4ac),platform=Linux 4.10.0-37-generic x86_64)
  </code></pre>