Instead, child processes will be forked and exec'd directly. Use names from RuntimeEnabledFeatures.json5, separated by commas. If true devtools experimental settings are enabled. For the features' level, see http://dev.chromium.org/blink/runtime-enabled-features. (off, normal, or aggressive). Disable several subsystems which run network requests in the background. Specifies a command that should be used to launch the ppapi plugin process. Options: 1. Thanks, Enables data volume counters in the Clear Browsing Data dialog. Report per-task heap usage and churn in the task profiler. Override the maximum framerate as can be specified in calls to getUserMedia. - Interactive mode, connect/scan/etc requests take 3 secs. We bundle the handler into chrome.exe on Windows because there is high probability of a "new" .exe being blocked or interfered with by application firewalls, AV software, etc. Frequency in seconds for Extensions auto-update. Enables the fullscreen toolbar to reveal itself for tab strip changes. Specifies an alternate URL to use for speaking to Google. If the WebRTC logging private API is active, enables WebRTC event logging. Used, like |kForceDirectShowVideoCapture|, to troubleshoot problems in Windows platforms. The contents of this flag are prepended to the utility process command line. Mutes audio sent to the audio device so it is not audible during automated testing. Not for user use. Enable content intent detection in the renderer. If set, the app list will forget it has been installed on startup. The telephony region (ISO country code) to use in phone number detection. Used to pass initial screen resolution to GPU process. Useful when running against a non-prod management server. Allows insecure XMPP connections for sync (for testing). Edge Command Line Arguments. Enables the palette on every display, instead of only the internal one. Enables Data Saver prompt on cellular networks. Enables Origin header in Stun messages for WebRTC. (see screenshot below) Use an .y4m file to play as the webcam. The constant OFFICIAL_BUILD must not be defined, and the constant BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_PRINT_PREVIEW) must be defined. Applied after other command line flags and prefs. Not available everywhere. Useful if an experiment makes chrome crash at startup: One can start chrome with --no-experiments, disable the problematic lab at about:flags and then restart chrome without this switch again. Green: Overdrawn twice. Force use of the Subzero as the PNaCl translator instead of LLC. The following table shows the configurable commands, how to use them, and what they do. For tests and platforms where software fallback is disabled. Command line flag offering a "Show saved copy" option to the user if offline. Enables Non-SFI mode, in which programs can be run without NaCl's SFI sandbox. Enables showing popular sites on the NTP. web content) on Aura or Linux. Override the default value for the 'passive' field in javascript addEventListener calls. Enables the sandboxed processes to run without a job object assigned to them. The default is 30 minutes. Enables the use of C++-based extension bindings (instead of JS generation). How do users open a NEW instance of Microsoft Edge from the command line, batch file or a desktop short cut? See: "net/proxy/proxybypassrules.h" for the format of these rules. Note that for WebRTC calls we'll treat the bits as if they came from the microphone, which means you should disable audio processing (lest your audio file will play back distorted). The utility process is sandboxed, with access to one directory. Force easy unlock app loading in test. * Each renderer process, for its whole lifetime, is dedicated to rendering pages for just one site. on
The version should be numbers separated by '. Allows debugging of sandboxed processes (see zygote_main_linux.cc). Note that this only applies if the browser's reported channel is UNKNOWN. Specifies the user which is already logged in. Passing this flag also adds kNoSandbox on Windows non-official builds, since that's needed to show a dialog. Command + R. Reload the current tab. Set number of threads to use for video decoding. - Displays a dialog box that shows the correct usage of the Setup command, including a list of all its command-line switches and their behaviors. Disables showing the search geolocation disclosure UI. /prefetch:# argument shared by all process types that don't have their own. Registers additional font files on Windows (for fonts outside the usual %WINDIR%\Fonts location). The id's of the devices can be retrieved from 'xinput list'. Create an instance of EdgeOptions, which provides convenience methods to set Microsoft Edge-specific capabilities. Enables discovery of the phone over Bluetooth Low Energy. Handles frame scrolls via the root RenderLayer instead of the FrameView. Sample memory usage with high frequency and store the results to the Renderer.Memory histogram. For more information about using a fixed version runtime distribution with WebView2, see, Path to the user data folder that WebView2 will use. For a file to show a warning, it also must be considered a dangerous filetype and not be whitelisted otherwise (by signature or URL) and must be on a supported OS. Precache manifests will be served from URLs with this prefix. The filename to write the output of the test tracing to. A comma-separated string of Microsoft Edge tracing categories for which trace events should be collected. Only supported on Android. Enables TLS/SSL errors on localhost to be ignored (no interstitial, no blocking of requests). Enables saving net log events to a file and sets the file name to use. Visualize overdraw by color-coding elements based on if they have other elements drawn underneath. Sends test messages on first call to RequestUpdate (stub only). Disables new profile management system, including new profile chooser UI. Takes the absolute path to the service library to load as an argument. Enables multiple account versions of chrome.identity APIs. TODO(lzheng): Remove this flag once the feature works fine (http://crbug.com/74848). This flag is needed until the API is finalized. I will keep updating this page as long as I support Microsoft Edge. Default: parallel. Pass a set of GpuDriverBugWorkaroundType ids, seperated by ','. The token to use to construct the message pipe for a service in a child process. Disables the sandbox for all process types that are normally sandboxed. These mappings only apply to the host resolver. Enables starting the ARC instance upon session start. Forces Desktop to iOS promotion to appear in windows whenever an entrypoint is triggered. ("-inl" suffixes are also disregarded for this matching). The basics are that this URL goes through SSO authentication. This defaults to primary user homedir. Forces the use of software GL instead of hardware gpu. For instance, --auto-select-desktop-capture-source="Entire screen" will automatically select to share the entire screen in English locales. Disables data volume counters in the Clear Browsing Data dialog. Note this check does not go through the Data Reduction Proxy. Edge on Chromium Command Line Switches Could you please indicate where I can find the Edge on Chromium Command Line Switches? Disable user gesture requirement for media playback. Requests that a running browser process dump its collected histograms to a given file. This is used during automated testing. Assigned Access via Set up a kiosk using Microsoft Edge browser (Chromium version) The use case: The laptop to on boot login to the kiosk user and be directed to the desired web address. Feature switch expects either --enable-
or --=1, but about_flags expects the command line argument to enable it (or a selection). Make the values returned to window.performance.memory more granular and more up to date in shared worker. For determinism virtual time does not advance while there are pending network fetches (i.e no timers will fire). Enables using the default search engine country to show country specific popular sites on the NTP. The values the kTouchEventFeatureDetection switch may have, as in --touch-events=disabled. Override gl version from the GpuInfoCollector. Disables new Kiosk UI when kiosk apps are represented as user pods. Overrides the kEnableGpuRasterization and kForceGpuRasterization flags. Time in seconds before a machine at OOBE is considered derelict. Apps cannot start until provided resources. This can be used in tests. TODO(nkostylev): Investigate if this switch could be removed. Starts the browser maximized, regardless of any previous settings. There are command-line switches that Chromium (and Chrome) accept in order to enable particular features or modify otherwise default functionality. Enables the multi-level undo system for bookmarks. Fakes the channel of the browser for purposes of Variations filtering. This is different from the Media Session API as it is enabling a default behaviour for the browser. Indicates that a guest session has been started before OOBE completion. Disables suggestions while typing on a physical keyboard. Allows disabling of translate from the command line to assist with automated browser testing (e.g. Overrides kEnableGpuAsyncWorkerContext. Comma-separated options to troubleshoot the component updater. The argument's value must be a BSD device name of the form "diskN" or "diskNsM". To collect (or not collect) events from Page domain. Disables GL drawing operations which produce pixel output. For example, the following argument defines two trials, with the second one activated: "GoogleNow/Enable/*MaterialDesignNTP/Default/" This option can also be used by the browser process to send the list of trials to a non-browser process, using the same format. This is a performance isolation mode. PlzNavigate: Use the experimental browser-side navigation path. Select which implementation of GL the GPU process should use. Otherwise, they silently succeed. Outputs the product version information and quit. Renders a border around compositor layers to help debug and study layer compositing. Convert rasterization and compositing inputs to the output color space before operating on them. Testing switch to not launch the gpu process for full gpu info collection. Redirect stderr to the given port. You can display this help information in the command-line interface (CLI) or the . Do not force that all compositor resources be backed by GPU memory buffers. Some platforms like ChromeOS default to empty desktop. DEPRECATED. Disable OpenGL ES 3 APIs. Disables sending signin scoped device id to LSO with refresh token request. Don't use a proxy server, always make direct connections. This is particularly unsafe as non SFI NaCl heavily relies on the seccomp sandbox. Sets the checkin service endpoint that will be used for performing Google Cloud Messaging checkins. This is a temporary testing flag. Allows media playback for hidden WebContents. They don't have any effect. : --disable-synctypes='Typed URLs, Bookmarks, Autofill Profiles'. Overrides the default URL for Google APIs (https://www.googleapis.com) used by CryptAuth. Forces Android application mode. At least YUV decoding will be accelerated when not using this flag. Enables the string change from "Save Image" to "Download Image". List of network interfaces to ignore. Path to the exe to run for the renderer and plugin subprocesses. Type of the current test harness ("browser" or "ui"). Under the "Set up a kiosk" section, click the Assigned . This mode consolidates same-site pages so that they share a single process. Overrides the default host:port used for notifications. The following list contains all of the Microsoft Edge-specific capabilities that EdgeDriver returns when you create a new session. Passes gpu device_id from browser process to GPU process. Force all rasterization and compositing to be done in linear color space, with physically correct blending and interpolation. Show rects in the HUD around layers whose properties have changed. Here are the examples of the most commonly used command line arguments for the Google Chrome browser. Allow access to external pages during layout tests. Percentage of the browser controls need to be hidden before they will auto hide. Causes the PPAPI sub process to display a dialog on launch. d3d9: Legacy D3D9 renderer, ES2 only. Sets a window size, optional position, and optional scale factor. Disable the pull-to-refresh effect when vertically overscrolling content. When specified to "enable-leak-detection" command-line option, causes the leak detector to cause immediate crash when found leak. See FieldTrialList::CreateTrialsFromString() in field_trial.h for details. Forces use of hardware overlay for fullscreen video playback. Disables checking whether we received an acknowledgment when registering a supervised user. Also emit full event trace logs for successful tests. You can do that by pressing the "Start" key. Can make boot slightly slower, but also hides an even-longer awkward period where we display a white background if the login wallpaper takes a long time to load. Of the form language[-country] where language is the 2 letter code from ISO-639. When running tests on a system without the required hardware or libraries, this flag will cause the tests to fail. Large wallpaper to use in guest mode (as path to trusted, non-user-writable JPEG file). Disables Blink's XSSAuditor. However, having a valid prefetch argument for these process types is required to prevent them from interfering with the prefetch profile of the browser process. Sets options for MHTML generator to skip no-store resources: "skip-nostore-main" - fails to save a page if main frame is 'no-store' "skip-nostore-all" - also skips no-store subresources. This flag also applys to workers. The switch is intended only for layout tests. Enables sharing assets for installed default apps. In other languages, the capabilities are stored under the ms:edgeOptions dictionary in DesiredCapabilities. Disables merging the key event (WM_KEY*) with the char event (WM_CHAR). Disable the limit on the number of times the GPU process may be restarted. The various modes are always-on, cellular-only, slow connections only and disabled. Disable hiding the close buttons of inactive tabs when the tabstrip is in stacked mode. Whether to force developer mode extensions highlighting. Override the default minimum starting volume of the Automatic Gain Control algorithm in WebRTC used with audio tracks from getUserMedia. GDB script to pass to the nacl-gdb debugger at startup. Gives the per-module maximal V-logging levels to override the value given by --v. E.g. Has no effect without --trace-startup, or if --startup-trace-file=none was supplied. Capabilities are options that you can use to customize and configure an EdgeDriver session. Enables Translate experimental new UX which replaces the infobar. The boolean value (0/1) of FontRenderParams::antialiasing to be passed to Ppapi processes. This hides certain system UI elements and forces the app to be installed if it hasn't been already. (http://crbug.com/119175). More information. If the value starts with !, a program will be debugged if manifest URL does not match any pattern. UI,IO,DB,FILE,CACHE are the list of BrowserThreads that are supported. Also, exposes the WindowServerTest interface to clients when launched with this flag. Override secondary gpu vendor ids from the GpuInfoCollector. Applied after kEnableBlinkFeatures, and after other flags that change these features. Skips all other OOBE pages after user login. DirectWrite FontCache is shared by browser to renderers using shared memory. Prevent renderer process backgrounding when set. Switches cc machinery to use layer lists instead of layer trees. Allows the browser to load extensions that lack a modern manifest when that would otherwise be forbidden. Request the render trees of pages to be dumped as text once they have finished loading. Used for perf testing. Disable latest shipping ECMAScript 6 features. Command to Run Edge from Command Line. The name of the service the process is starting for. To collect (or not collect) events from Network domain. For standard capabilities that EdgeDriver accepts, see Selenium documentation and the W3C WebDriver standard. This flag makes Chrome auto-select the provided choice when an extension asks permission to start desktop capture. Encode binary layout test results (images, audio) using base64. I want to start Microsoft Edge with a given url and I want it to start in maximized state.. Based on this article we know that Process.Start(url) does not work in .netcore. If there no --edge-fullscreen key, Edge successfully authenticate user with buit-in Windows authentication and does not show user name and password window on start up. The following list highlights important Chrome command line switches for users of the Google browser. AddExtensions ( "/path/to/extension.crx" ); var driver = new EdgeDriver ( options ); Disable hardware encoding support for Cast Streaming. Disables compositor-accelerated touch-screen pinch gestures. Arguments with an associated value should be separated by an. It is useful to tell the difference for tracking purposes. Enables a frame context menu item that toggles the frame in and out of glass mode (Windows Vista and up only). Default large wallpaper to use (as path to trusted, non-user-writable JPEG file). Bitmask - 0x1=Microsoft, 0x2=AMD, 0x03=Try all. Passes active gpu vendor id from browser process to GPU process. previous-app should be the app that was running when last-launched-app started. Specifying this switch enables the Variations service on unofficial builds. Disables the new File System Provider API based ZIP unpacker. --user-data-dir msedge.exe --user-data-dir=c:\temp\NewEdgeUser This command-line flag overrides the User Data Directory, see User Data Directory for more details. Taints all