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

@Zhi Lv - MSFT

What is the browser you are launching? Chrome or Chromium-Edge? I am using selenium java code, if I run the similar java code as below, it will fail with error The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;

System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", "C:\\SeleniumPlus\\extra\\msedgedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge Dev\\Application\\msedge.exe");
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

If I create an edge capabilities and merge the ChromeOption into it, I can see that "Chromium-Edge" gets started without the "infobar", but it just gets stuck there and fails with an error unknown error: unrecognized Chrome version: Edg/80.0.361.5

System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", "C:\\SeleniumPlus\\extra\\msedgedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge Dev\\Application\\msedge.exe");
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
DesiredCapabilities m_capability = DesiredCapabilities.edge();
m_capability.merge(chromeOptions);
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"), m_capability);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

From the "selenium server" console, I can see, the "browserName" is "chrome", I guess that is the reason why chrome's options is working to get rid of the "infobar"

15:37:55.502 INFO [ActiveSessionFactory.apply] - Capabilities are: {
  "browserName": "chrome",
  "goog:chromeOptions": {
    "args": [
    ],
    "binary": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge Dev\\Application\\msedge.exe",
    "excludeSwitches": [
      "enable-automation"
    ],
    "extensions": [
    ],
    "useAutomationExtension": false
  },
  "platform": "WINDOWS",
  "version": ""
}

If I set the "browserName" to "MicrosoftEdge" after merging the chrome's options as below, it can get the "Chromium-Edge" started, but the chrome's options do not work any more, which means the "infobar" is still there.

m_capability.merge(chromeOptions);
m_capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, BrowserType.EDGE);