[🚀 Feature]: Return window handles on driver.close()

[joerg1985]

Feature and motivation

The w3c spec does return the window handles on the close window command. This is currently not passed to the client by the implementation, i assume because it is a breaking change.

This could get fixed with the release of Selenium 5, this issue is just a reminder to fit it then.

Usage example

When closing a window the next command is to switch to another window. Therefore it might be helpfull to get all the handles when closing the window. Or to detect the session has been terminated, because all other windows are closed too.

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[joerg1985]

This is the link to the command in the spec, see the last step regarding returning the handles. https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/#close-window

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