Chrome Error: You are using an unsupported command-line flag: --ignore-certifcate-errors. Stability and security will suffer

Question

Browser opens with the below mentioned line-

You are using an unsupported command-line flag: --ignore-certifcate-errors. Stability and security will s

Answer 1

For a chrome version of 58.0.3029.110, You should use Chrome.driver of 2.28 version. Download driver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.28/

Note: If you want to download other chromedriver of other version then change version number in the above url.

Happy learning

Answer 2

You can add this to the shortcut of the chrome browser, in the Target portion:

–test-type

This would disable any warning messages. Not the best solution, but it works.

Answer 3

I was able to fix this on Windows by opening the properties of the Chrome shortcut. There I deleted the --ignore-certificate-errors flag.

Answer 4

Try this code when you create driver. I hope it will help:

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
setDefaultCapabilities(capabilities);
capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--ignore-certificate-errors"));
options.addArguments(Arrays.asList("allow-running-insecure-content", "ignore-certificate-errors"));
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

Answer 5

Use chromedriver 2.12 version (chromedriver_win32.zip) from the path http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.12/

You wont see this pop up.

Answer 6

I had this issue recently. I found out I was using a 32-bit chromedriver for a 64-bit Mac. So I simply replaced the chromedriver with a 64-bit chromedriver from https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.25/ and the error was gone.