Why doesn't chromium driver terminate process after browser is closed in Selenium?

Question

linux

I am using selenium and chromedriver.
The parser runs every 2 minutes. I initialize the browser on every launch

browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options,
executable_path=webdriver_path)

I parse the data and close the browser.

browser.close()

At the end of the day, I found a bunch of hanging processes in top - there is chromium itself (headless), and a chrome driver on different ports. As a result, the processor is loaded at 100%. I had to kill the processes manually and restart the parser.

So browser.close() only closes the browser without terminating the chrome driver process? How to nail it in this case?

Answer 1

try:
    # do my automated tasks
except:
    pass
finally:
    driver.close()
    driver.quit()

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