How to remove the infobar “Microsoft Edge is being controlled by automated test software” in selenium test

Question

We are using selenium to run test against \"Chromium based Edge\". \"The Chromium Edge\" is downloaded from https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download and the version i

Answer 1

You saw it right.

As per the article Microsoft’s Edge Chromium browser will launch on January 15th with a new logo Microsoft is planning to release its Edge Chromium browser on January 15th 2020 with availability for Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, and macOS. This came just after Microsoft released the beta version of Edge.

Now, this Beta also means that Microsoft is edging closer to the release stage for its Chromium browser. Microsoft first released its Canary and Developer builds of Edge back in April, and the company has spent the past four months working alongside Google to improve Chromium for Windows. That work also involved Microsoft getting used to the cadence of delivering a Chromium browser.

Hence adding the ExperimentalOption you see the Microsoft’s Edge Chromium browser almost like a Chromium / Chrome browser.