how to override default set of chrome command line switches in selenium

Question

By default, chrome will be run with this command line:

\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\"
--disable-hang-monitor
--disable-         


        

Answer 1

You should start browser by yourself and then tell selenium, that you already have it launched via passing special channel id. Something like that:

from random import randrange
channel_id = "%032x" % randrange(16**32)

from subprocess import Popen
# HERE YOU PASS ONLY THOSE PARAMETERS YOU WANT (i.e. without --disable-*)
# BUT YOU MAY NEED --dom-automation FOR SOME ROUTINES
chrome = Popen(" ".join([
    PATH_TO_CHROME_EXE,
    "--no-first-run", "--dom-automation",
    ("--testing-channel=\"NamedTestingInterface:%s\"" % channel_id),
]))

try:
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
    chromedriver_server = Service(PATH_TO_CHROMEDRIVER, 0)
    chromedriver_server.start()
    from selenium.webdriver import Remote
    driver = Remote(chromedriver_server.service_url,
        {"chrome.channel": channel_id, "chrome.noWebsiteTestingDefaults": True})

    driver.get(MY_WEBPAGE)
    # DO YOUR WORK

finally:
    chromedriver_server.stop()
    driver.quit()

chrome.kill()
chrome.wait()