driver.close() will hang for forever

Question

driver.close() is not working on Jenkins and the whole test will hang for forever. I am using Selenium Grid with Java and using Chrome Driver.

I don't want to user driver.quit(). I have to use driver.close(). I have two tabs open and i have to close one.

public static void closeBrowser() 
{ 
    try 
    { 
       WebDriver testDriver = BrowserFactory.getInstance().getDriver(); 
        if (testDriver != null) 
        { 
            testDriver.close();
        } 
        wait.wait(2); 
        Log.info("Closing the browser"); 
    } 
    catch (Exception e) 
    { 
        Log.info("Cannot close browser"); 
    } 
}

This used to work and started to happen recently.

Answer 1

Better solution i found to close window is:

((JavascriptExecutor) BrowserFactory.getInstance().getDriver()).executeScript( "window.close()" );