Why did Selenium for Chrome 99 stop working?

Question

Python

After updating chrome and webdriver to version 99, the Python program that uses Selenium stopped functioning normally, and after a couple of minutes it crashes with the "target frame detached" error. Everything worked perfectly before. I'm not the only one. On one English-language forum 5 days ago, a large number of users complained about the same problem, but I did not find a solution.

Minimum code:

def results_received(driver):
    result = result_block.text
    if content == prev_content or len(content) < 200 or ('?' in content):
        return False
    return True

driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path)
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
driver.get(URL)

input_elem = driver.find_element(By.ID, input_id)
submit_button = driver.find_element(By.ID, submit_button_id)
result_block = driver.find_element(By.ID, result_block_id)

while True:
    input_elem.clear()
    input_elem.send_keys(random_text())
    submit_button.click()
    
    wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 16)
    ok = wait.until(results_received)
    
    result = result_block.text
    *всякие проверки содержимого result*

Console error:

Answer 1

$ chromedriver --version
ChromeDriver 99.0.4844.51 (d537ec02474b5afe23684e7963d538896c63ac77-refs/branch-heads/[email protected]{#875})
$ google-chrome-stable --version
Google Chrome 99.0.4844.51

It works for me with these versions.

Answer 2

Try using the Webdrivermanager library for Python. After it, you will generally forget about updating the webdriver