[🐛 Bug]: In selenium grid 4 , selenium test is running only in headless mode for chrome driver

[remyanekkuth]

What happened?

Recently updated grid 3 to grid 4. When execute existing web test for chrome, test is successful but execution is in non GUI mode. Unable to see the execution in node. Chrome driver instantiating a session with blank page with data : . Test is successful.

Same test run against selenium 3 and grid 3 , test is executing in GUI mode.

In selenium grid 4 , is the chrome driver execution is default to headless mode ? If so , then how can I change it to GUI mode.

Passing the capabilities through --driver-configuration from toml file. Please suggest.

Appreciate your help.

How can we reproduce the issue?

Execute a selenium test against selenium grid 4 nodes with driver as chrome.

Relevant log output

test is successful. But chrome driver opens a blank page with data :

Operating System

windows 10

Selenium version

Serenity 2.3.10

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

chrome 102

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

chrome driver 102.0.5005

Are you using Selenium Grid?

4.1.3

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