When running capybara with Chrome you might start seeing frequent "no alert open" errors when trying to interact with browser dialogs. This seems to be triggered by a recent Chrome update.

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Apparently these dialogs no longer appear instantly. Spreewald 1.2.11 fixes the "When I confirm the browser dialog" and similar steps by waiting for the dialog to appear.