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Chrome tab crashes in gdk-instance-project-studio job

Summary

Multiple failures observed in gdk-instance-project-studio jobs over the last few days due to Chrome tab crashes.

Error Details

[Nov 06 2025 21:44:57 UTC (E2E Tests)] ERROR -- Page error check raised error `Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError`: tab crashed
  (Session info: chrome=138.0.7204.183)
[Nov 06 2025 21:44:57 UTC (E2E Tests)] WARN  -- Failed to collect coverage paths, check if it is an api spec: tab crashed
  (Session info: chrome=138.0.7204.183)
      successfully delete them (FAILED - 1)

Example Failure

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/jobs/12004605034

Observations

  • Tests pass on retry
  • Multiple occurrences over the last few days
  • Specific to gdk-instance-project-studio jobs
  • Chrome version: 138.0.7204.183

References

Reported by @treagitlab in gitlab-org/quality/pipeline-triage#360 (comment 2873639322)