Use a specific disk cache location, rather than one derived from the UserDatadir. Only available with XInput 2 (i.e. Determines which Google Privacy CA to use for attestation. Enables consumer kiosk mode for Chrome OS. How many frames need to be in the output buffer before output starts. Enables tab detaching in fullscreen mode on Mac. Example: --trace-startup --trace-startup-file=/tmp/trace_event.log As a special case, can be set to 'none' Enables the display of a banner allowing the user to add a web app to their shelf (or platform-specific equivalent). Disables SystemTimezoneAutomaticDetection policy. Note: # must always be in [1, 8]; otherwise it is ignored by the Windows prefetcher. Useful when running against a non-prod management server. rasterize on the CPU only. Fall back to using CAOpenGLLayers display content, instead of the IOSurface based overlay display path. This is only supported in Windows 7 and above. - A wifi network is initially connected ('1' also works) 'wifi=off' This flag also applys to workers. Enables TLS/SSL errors on localhost to be ignored (no interstitial, no blocking of requests). When running content_browsertests, saves output of failing accessibility tests to their expectations files in content/test/data/accessibility/, overwriting existing file content. Causes the PPAPI sub process to display a dialog on launch. Disable the Legacy Window which corresponds to the size of the WebContents. Specifies a location for profiling output. If omitted a default of 5 seconds is used. Disables use of ES3 backend (use ES2 backend instead). Default values are 150M for video and 12M for audio. These experiments are defined by the proxy server. Controls the behavior of history navigation in response to horizontal overscroll. The format is "," where t=TOP, r=RIGHT, b=BOTTOM and L=LEFT. Runs a read-eval-print loop that allows the user to evaluate Javascript expressions. (see screenshot below) 3 Click/tap on the Settings and more (Alt+F) 3 dots menu icon, and click/tap on Settings. "800,0+800-800x800" for two displays at 800x800 resolution. If a report indicates the buffer usage is 100%, a warning is issued. Used for perf testing. Gives the default maximal active V-logging level; 0 is the default. For instance, --auto-select-desktop-capture-source="Entire screen" will automatically select to share the entire screen in English locales. Disables native GPU memory buffer support. Disables bypass proxy for captive portal authorization. Pass the app id information to the renderer process, to be used for logging. The argument to this switch is the handle id (pointer on Windows) as a string, followed by a comma, then the size of the shared memory segment as a string. Disables custom Cmd+` window cycling for platform apps and hosted apps. This is because msedge.exe process is running all the time and command line switches seem to be . A comma-separated string of Microsoft Edge tracing categories for which trace events should be collected. Disables panel fitting (used for mirror mode). The name of the service the process is starting for. Useful for testing. Should only be used for tests. Starts the browser maximized, regardless of any previous settings. Enables password generation when we detect that the user is going through account creation. 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. It is only followed when kRunLayoutTest is set. Command to Run Edge from Command Line. Specified as a pair of comma separated integers. Avoid the, A list of extensions to install on startup. Force enables the Happiness Tracking System for the device. - http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models Enables the HarfBuzz port of RenderText on Mac (it's already used only for text editing; this enables it for everything else). (Used by people testing their sites.). Be sure to use --no-sandbox as well or the sandbox won't allow the dialog to display. 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. The number of multisample antialiasing samples for GPU rasterization. The output will go to the value of kProfilingFile. This option is for testing the chromeos build of chrome on the desktop only. Force easy unlock app loading in test. Specify that all compositor resources should be backed by GPU memory buffers. Example: --trace-shutdown --trace-shutdown-file=/tmp/trace_event.log. Specifies a comma separated list of host-port pairs to force use of QUIC on. Disables suggestions while typing on a physical keyboard. Ignored if --proxy-auto-detect or --no-proxy-server are also specified. Contains a list of feature names for which origin trial experiments should be disabled. The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is a classic desktop app that supports command-line arguments as Chrome does. Causes TRACE_EVENT flags to be recorded beginning with shutdown. Can prevent blinking for users with many windows/tabs and lots of memory. Enables overriding the path for the default authentication extension. Enable: allow browser to use display list for 2d canvas (browser makes decision). Open Command Prompt (type "cmd" in Windows Search and select "Command Prompt") and run this command: start msedge --restore-last-session Edge will launch with all the tabs from the previous session restored. List of comma-separated sha256 hashes of executable files which the download-protection service should treat as "dangerous." For more information, see, A dictionary with each entry consisting of the name of the preference and the value. The constants OS_CHROMEOS and OS_MACOSX must not be defined, and the constant OS_POSIX must be defined. gles: GLES renderer, ES2 and ES3. --cipher-suite-blacklist Comma-separated list of SSL cipher suites to disable. Apart from testing, it is a bad idea from a security perspective to enable this switch. --trace-shutdown=base,net) otherwise, all events are recorded. If a trial name is prefixed with an asterisk, that trial will start activated. Whether to force developer mode extensions highlighting. --trace-shutdown-file can be used to control where the trace log gets stored to since there is otherwise no way to access the result. previous-app should be the app that was running when last-launched-app started. This cancels all navigation and causes the DOMContentLoaded event to fire. Possible values: parallel|postpone. Sends trace events from these categories to a file. Search. Used by 'fake' telemetry login. Enables TRACE for GL calls in the renderer. Revisit by August 2013. See chrome/browser/mac/relauncher.h. Use names from RuntimeEnabledFeatures.json5, separated by commas. Assumed to be 0 if --accept-resource-provider is present. - http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models Make the values returned to window.performance.memory more granular and more up to date in shared worker. Sets the initial window size. Last automated update occurred on 2022-11-13 . Enables a 1 MB savings promo for the data reduction proxy. Required if the server has authentication enabled. Use an .y4m file to play as the webcam. Use like renderer-cmd-prefix. It can still be dismissed via the other methods (like the Esc key). Describes the file descriptors passed to the child process. last-launched-app should be the app that just launched and is spawning the renderer. Required if the server has authentication enabled. Forces Android application mode. Handle to the shared memory segment containing field trial state that is to be shared between processes. To collect (or not collect) events from Page domain. : --disable-synctypes='Typed URLs, Bookmarks, Autofill Profiles'. Turns on extension install verification if it would not otherwise have been turned on. For more information, see, Application user model ID of a Microsoft Edge app package to launch, for example, A list of window types that are displayed in the list of window handles. Enables remote debug over HTTP on the specified socket name. Used in order to properly restore auto-launched state during session restore flow. Enables Non-SFI mode, in which programs can be run without NaCl's SFI sandbox. Force-enables the profile shortcut manager. Enable screen capturing support for MediaStream API. Here are the examples of the most commonly used command line arguments for the Google Chrome browser. Enables close proximity detection. Right-click on the Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome desktop shortcut. edge://about-- Same as edge://edge-urls/; edge://accessibility-- Inspect the representation of accessibility in Edge and modify accessibility modes. When enabled without kEnableColorCorrectRendering or kEnableTrueColorRendering flags, "default" means color correct the image bitmap to the display color space. Frequency in seconds for Extensions auto-update. Give a scale factor to cause raster to take that many times longer to complete, such as --slow-down-raster-scale-factor=25. Enable or disable appcontainer/lowbox for renderer on Win8+ platforms. This is useful for tests because it means that tests don't have to mock out the policy infrastructure. Passes the name of the current running automated test to Chrome. This is a performance isolation mode. MS are planning to release a Chromium-based Edge in the future and have already begun the migration. Issues a stop after the specified number of milliseconds. The constant OFFICIAL_BUILD must not be defined, and the constant BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_PRINT_PREVIEW) must be defined. Disables 3D APIs, including WebGL and Pepper 3D. Screenshot testing: specifies the directoru where artifacts will be stored. Force showing the local save checkbox in the autofill dialog box for getting the full credit card number for a wallet card. "1024x768*2" sets the scale factor to 2 for a high DPI display. Specifies power stub behavior: 'cycle=2' - Cycles power states every 2 seconds. Enable use of experimental TCP sockets API for sending data in the SYN packet. Disables the use of a 3D software rasterizer. Disable one or more Blink runtime-enabled features. Optionally, can specify the specific trace categories to include (e.g. Not passed on restart after sign out. Loads an extension from the specified directory. Default: parallel. Specifies Android phone page loading progress bar animation. Enables participation in the field trial for user feedback to spelling service. Controls whether profile data is periodically flushed to a file. This is to be used for testing only. Run devtools tests in debug mode (not bundled and minified). Names should be separated by "|" characters. and "foo." Enables the Material Design feedback form. - Wifi networks are all initially disconnected ('0' also works) 'wifi=disabled' Disables Physical Web scanning for nearby URLs. Specifies a comma separated list of QUIC connection options to send to the server. Sets the market URL for Chrome for use in testing. Allows explicitly specifying MSE audio/video buffer sizes. Treat given (insecure) origins as secure origins. This flag causes the user engagement checks for showing app banners to be bypassed. Enables the zero-touch enterprise enrollment flow. Defaults to null if unspecified. Signals the availability of the ARC instance on this device. Enable content intent detection in the renderer. auto: enabled at startup when an attached touchscreen is present. - The class comment in site_instance.h, listing the supported process models. Enables showing unregistered printers in print preview. Disable features that require WiFi management. Material design mode for the |kTopChromeMD| switch. This also turns on touch-screen pinch gestures. IMPORTANT: this isn't to be confused with --process-per-site (which is about process consolidation, not isolation). (http://crbug.com/119175). Disables password generation when we detect that the user is going through account creation. For development / testing only. Suppresses all error dialogs when present. Force to report VP9 as an unsupported MIME type. Disables wallpaper boot animation (except of OOBE case). UI,IO,DB,FILE,CACHE are the list of BrowserThreads that are supported. Set the value to '0' to disable. The constant BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_PLUGINS) must be defined. For additional information about command-line switches used by Windows Installer, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Command-Line Options. Include ANGLE's intermediate representation (AST) output in shader compilation info logs. This is useful for finding issues in the metrics code during UI and performance tests. More details here: Do not force that all compositor resources be backed by GPU memory buffers. Custom WebAPK server URL for the sake of testing. Use Windows WaveOut/In audio API even if Core Audio is supported. Disable workarounds for various GPU driver bugs. Defines the speed of Material Design visual feedback animations. Inform users that their browser is being controlled by an automated test. Some tests seem to require the application to close when the last browser window is closed. The mode can be set to one of the following values: "Default" "IncludeCookiesAndCredentials" "IncludeSocketBytes" See the functions of the corresponding name in net_log_capture_mode.h for a description of their meaning. Values are case sensitive and based on Shill names in service_constants.h. If this flag is set, we will add downloaded snippets that are missing some critical data to the list. Allows insecure XMPP connections for sync (for testing). Argument to the process type that indicates a PPAPI broker process type. Causes SSL key material to be logged to the specified file for debugging purposes. Overrides the URL used to fetch the current Google Doodle. More information. Prevents Chrome from requiring authorization to run certain widely installed but less commonly used plugins. Explicitly allows additional ports using a comma-separated list of port numbers. On platforms where helper processes cannot access to files needed to make this decision, this flag is generated internally. Sets the registration endpoint that will be used for creating new Google Cloud Messaging registrations. Enables using signed distance fields when rendering text. Default large wallpaper to use for kids accounts (as path to trusted, non-user-writable JPEG file). The maximum number of retry attempts to resolve the host. The constants OS_FREEBSD, OS_LINUX and OS_SOLARIS must be defined. This argument is used to launch a browser with disabled third-party extensions. These mappings apply to the endpoint host in a net::URLRequest (the TCP connect and host resolver in a direct connection, and the CONNECT in an http proxy connection, and the endpoint host in a SOCKS proxy connection). Force the use of MediaFoundation for video capture. Enables the proactive populating of the disk cache with Web resources that are likely to be needed in future page fetches. Specify the initial window workspace: --window-workspace=id. Enables tracking of tasks in profiler for viewing via about:profiler. Tells chrome to display the cloud print dialog and upload the specified file for printing. Causes the GPU process to display a dialog on launch. Enables the shelf color to be derived from the wallpaper. Allows non-https URL for background_page for hosted apps. Flag used for Linux tests: for desktop GL bindings, try to load this GL library first, but fall back to regular library if loading fails. Applied after kEnableBlinkFeatures, and after other flags that change these features. Specifies an alternate URL to use for speaking to Google. Overrides the kEnableMainFrameBeforeActivation flag. Enables deferring sync backend initialization until user initiated changes occur. Disables VA-API accelerated video encode. Value for kTestCrosGaiaIdMigration indicating that migration is started (i.e. Enable use of the SGI_video_sync extension, which can have driver/sandbox/window manager compatibility issues. This only works when Chrome is running from a Chrome source directory. Used with kCloudPrintFile to specify a JSON print ticket for the resulting print job. Always return success when compiling a shader. TODO(gab): Get rid of this switch entirely. Overrides the default URL for Google APIs (https://www.googleapis.com) used by CryptAuth. WebFonts intervention v2 flag and values. Enables a hung renderer InfoBar allowing the user to close or wait on unresponsive web content. Enables the touch calibration option in MD settings UI for valid touch displays. The specified directory should include the configuration xml file with the name "fonts.xml". If this switch is set, the device cannot be remotely disabled by its owner. Disable the seccomp filter sandbox (seccomp-bpf) (Linux only). Please see SetupStunProbeTrial in chrome_browser_field_trials_desktop.cc for more detail. Disables Translate experimental new UX which replaces the infobar. Enable logging of GPU driver debug messages. 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. Set the value to '2' to enable the simplified overscroll UI where a navigation arrow slides in from the side of the screen in response to the horizontal overscroll gesture. Default is "https://clients3.google.com/generate_204". Command-Line is the best way to launch Microsoft Edge in Kiosk mode. TODO(xiyuan): Remove this when app could be bundled with Chrome. Forces the new features summary to be displayed below the update menu item. List of command-line arguments to pass to the Microsoft Edge process on launch. The language file that we want to try to open. Revisit by August 2013. This binding happens on per-frame basis and hence can potentially be a performance bottleneck. The constant GOOGLE_CHROME_BUILD must be defined. Tells chrome to interpret events from these devices as touch events. Example usages: --isolate-sites-for-testing=*.com --isolate-sites-for-testing=https://*. Green: Overdrawn twice. For example, 'r,-100' means the secondary display is positioned on the right with -100 offset. Disable user gesture requirement for media playback. Disables showing popular sites on the NTP. Default small wallpaper to use (as path to trusted, non-user-writable JPEG file). In debug builds, asserts that the stream of input events is valid. Disables use of toolkit-views based native app windows. Suspend media pipeline on background tabs. Changes the behavior of the "default" color space conversion mode in createImageBitmap. Overrides any other proxy server flags that are passed. Any other value will lead to Chrome detecting the best backend automatically. 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