4.4.5

**patch to fix headless mode**

-https://stackoverflow.com/a/73840130/7058266
-https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7679408#hdlssMod110
thanks @mdmintz for the info

undetected_chromedriver/__init__.py

@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ class Chrome(selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver):
         use_subprocess=True,
         debug=False,
         no_sandbox=True,
+        
         **kw,
     ):
         """
@@ -286,6 +287,9 @@ class Chrome(selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver):
 
         # see if a custom user profile is specified in options
         for arg in options.arguments:
+            if any([_ in arg for _ in ('--headless', 'headless')]):
+                options.arguments.remove(arg)
+                options.headless = True
             if "lang" in arg:
                 m = re.search("(?:--)?lang(?:[ =])?(.*)", arg)
                 try:
@@ -354,9 +358,7 @@ class Chrome(selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver):
             options.binary_location = (
                 browser_executable_path or find_chrome_executable()
             )
-
         self._delay = 3
-
         self.user_data_dir = user_data_dir
         self.keep_user_data_dir = keep_user_data_dir
 
@@ -365,13 +367,16 @@ class Chrome(selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver):
         if no_sandbox:
             options.arguments.extend(["--no-sandbox", "--test-type"])
         if headless or options.headless:
-            options.headless = True
+            if self.patcher.version_main < 108:
+                options.add_argument('--headless=chrome')
+            elif self.patcher.version_main >= 108:
+                options.add_argument( '--headless=new' )
+    
             options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")
             options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
             options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
             # fixes "could not connect to chrome" error when running
             # on linux using privileged user like root (which i don't recommend)
-
         options.add_argument(
             "--log-level=%d" % log_level
             or divmod(logging.getLogger().getEffectiveLevel(), 10)[0]

undetected_chromedriver/patcher.py

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ class Patcher(object):
         d = "~/.undetected_chromedriver"
     data_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(d))
 
+
+
     def __init__(self, executable_path=None, force=False, version_main: int = 0):
         """
 
@@ -61,13 +63,13 @@ class Patcher(object):
         """
 
         self.force = force
-
+        self._custom_exe_path = False
         prefix = "undetected"
 
         if not os.path.exists(self.data_path):
             os.makedirs(self.data_path, exist_ok=True)
 
-        self.executable_path = executable_path
+        
         if not executable_path:
             self.executable_path = os.path.join(
                 self.data_path, "_".join([prefix, self.exe_name])
@@ -85,8 +87,6 @@ class Patcher(object):
                 os.path.join(".", self.executable_path)
             )
 
-        self._custom_exe_path = False
-
         if executable_path:
             self._custom_exe_path = True
             self.executable_path = executable_path