Chrome Webdriver, lose connection => lose RAM!

a.rb

require 'selenium-webdriver'

client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 1 # seconds

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(
  :chrome, 
  :http_client => client, 
  :switches => %w[--ignore-certificate-errors --disable-popup-blocking --disable-translate]
)


# The driver only has 1 second, and likely times out
driver.navigate.to 'http://maps.google.com'

# Now for some reason it's impossible to quit the driver
# net/protocol.rb:146:in `rescue in rbuf_fill': Timeout::Error (Timeout::Error)
driver.quit

console.rb

# I let the browser go to a htaccess protected page, to simulate a long loading page, and let it time out.
# The timing out works great! The only thing is that after it times out, I can no longer close the browser to clean it up..
[45] pry(main)> http_client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
=> #<Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default:0x007ff646b1c698 @timeout=nil>
[46] pry(main)> http_client.timeout = 10
=> 10
[47] pry(main)> driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome, :http_client => http_client)
driver.=> #<Selenium::WebDriver::Driver:0x..fa262b71adb240f5e browser=:chrome>
[53] pry(main)> driver.navigate.to "http://sproffer.nl/admin"
Timeout::Error: Timeout::Error
from /Users/bartolsthoorn/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:146:in `rescue in rbuf_fill'
[54] pry(main)> driver.close
Timeout::Error: Timeout::Error
from /Users/bartolsthoorn/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:146:in `rescue in rbuf_fill'

# Example that it doesn't always fail
[56] pry(main)> driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome, :http_client => http_client)
=> #<Selenium::WebDriver::Driver:0x5acad44a1ab63f76 browser=:chrome>
[57] pry(main)> driver.navigate.to "http://google.nl"
=> {}
[58] pry(main)> driver.close
=> {}