Chrome Headless Tab Crashes Cause Misleading Flaky Test Failures in Selenium
QA engineers running Selenium with headless Chrome on Linux environments encounter random 'tab crashed' errors that invalidate the WebDriver session mid-execution. Because most retry frameworks are designed for locator failures rather than fatal browser crashes, the error gets misclassified as a flaky selector issue rather than an infrastructure problem. This makes root cause diagnosis difficult and inflates perceived test instability.
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