Disable field trial tests configured in fieldtrial_testing_config.json. Simulates that current version is outdated. Arguments with an associated value should be separated by an = sign (for example, ['start-maximized', 'user-data-dir=/tmp/temp_profile']). - officially-supported-with-active-directory: ARC is supported and also allowed to use with Active Directory management. The name is chosen to mimic user-data-dir etc. Note that even if client-side phishing detection is enabled, it will only be active if the user has opted in to UMA stats and SafeBrowsing is enabled in the preferences. This flag can reduce the security of the sandboxed processes and allow them to do certain API calls like shut down Windows or access the clipboard. Specifies if the |StatsCollectionController| needs to be bound in html pages. The constant OS_CHROMEOS must not be defined. Causes the browser to launch directly in incognito mode. By default, if any CDM host (including signature) file is missing, the CDM will not be called to verify the host. Size of the ALSA output period in frames. Default: parallel. Causes the process to run as a utility subprocess. Forces the maximum disk space to be used by the disk cache, in bytes. "Hide" value for kCrosRegionsMode (VPD values are hidden). E.g., "/foo/bar/=2" would change the logging level for all code in source files under a "foo/bar" directory. TODO(hlundin): Remove this switch when experimentation is over; crbug.com/603821. Switch to an existing tab for a suggestion opened from the New Tab Page. Always use the Skia GPU backend for drawing layer tiles. This is useful for tests because it means that tests don't have to mock out the policy infrastructure. Only valid if GPU rasterization is enabled as well. For access to Android webview elements, include. The page must prcoess a user gesture before an entry can be added. (default) Used to authenticate requests to the Sync service for supervised users. Prevent renderer process backgrounding when set. Please use --arc-availability=officially-supported. Requests that a running browser process dump its collected histograms to a given file. Instructs headless_shell to print document.body.innerHTML to stdout. Sets the output format for diagnostic modes enabled by diagnostics flag. Enable font antialiasing for pixel tests. Search. Should be set to true for internal audio products. Allows explicitly specifying MSE audio/video buffer sizes. This works only with drm platform. Disable the creation of compositing layers when it would prevent LCD text. Enables overriding the path for the default authentication extension. Enables/disables suggestions without typing anything (on first click). Enables synchronizing WiFi credentials across devices, using Chrome Sync. No not manage renderer process priority at all when set. Shows a notification when quitting Chrome with hosted apps running. Power of the power-of-2 initial modulus that will be used by the auto-enrollment client. Defaults to null if unspecified. This flag will be removed once the feature gets stable. Always treat user as affiliated. Disables notification when device is in end of life status. This will only work if chrome has been built with the gyp variable profiling=1. Enables use of toolkit-views based native app windows. Enable rasterizer that writes directly to GPU memory associated with tiles. Low res tiles may be displayed during fast scrolls especially on slower devices. Example: "Trial1.Group1:k1/v1/k2/v2,Trial2.Group2:k3/v3/k4/v4" Trial names, groups names, parameter names, and value should all be URL escaped for all non-alphanumeric characters. Specifies which encryption storage backend to use. They don't have any effect. Will also force the port of the resulting socket address to be 77. Lists separated by commas the name of features to disable. Enables custom-drawing the titlebar and tabstrip background so that it's not a garish #FFFFFF like it is by default on Windows 10. Is there a website or a list of the features that can be enabled and disabled? Material design mode for the |kTopChromeMD| switch. var options = new EdgeOptions (); options. Enables a live-reload for local NTP resources. Ignored interfaces will not be used for network connectivity. Whether to force developer mode extensions highlighting. To see a list of all the available shortcuts in Microsoft Edge, see Keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Edge. Useful if one wishes to use Chrome as an ash server. Disables Data Saver prompt on cellular networks. Disables the new rendering algorithm for webrtc, which is designed to improve the rendering smoothness. Multiple origins can be supplied. Overrides the default public key for checking origin trial tokens. Indicates whether the dual GPU switching is supported or not. Enables PrintBrowser mode, in which everything renders as though printed. Right click an empty part of the taskbar and select Task Manager on the menu that is displayed. Disables use of toolkit-views based native app windows. Enables the multi-level undo system for bookmarks. Enable native GPU memory buffer support when available. Allows debugging of sandboxed processes (see zygote_main_linux.cc). Causes TRACE_EVENT flags to be recorded from startup. Enable the fast unload controller, which speeds up tab/window close by running a tab's onunload js handler independently of the GUI - crbug.com/142458 . If omitted a default of 5 seconds is used. Shift+ESC can be used to bring up the browser task manager wherein memory, CPU, and network usage can be viewed. Show borders around CALayers corresponding to overlays and partial damage. The constant BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_PACKAGE_MASH_SERVICES) must be defined. Disables remote web font support. Material design hybrid mode for the |kTopChromeMD| switch. Enables per monitor DPI for supported Windows versions. The id's of the devices can be retrieved from 'xinput list'. TODO(nkostylev): Investigate if this switch could be removed. * All cross-site navigations force process swaps. A large proportion of results claim that as edge is now chrome based it supports most of the switches, but I have been unable to get any bar --new-window working. Used with NTP for instant-extended-api, where thumbnails are generally smaller. You can do that by pressing the "Start" key. I will keep updating this page as long as I support Microsoft Edge. Force use of the Subzero as the PNaCl translator instead of LLC. IMPORTANT: This isn't to be confused with --site-per-process (which is about isolation, not consolidation). Scenario: My organization uses separate accounts for elevated privileged actions. Disables wallpaper boot animation (except of OOBE case). Specifies the maximum length for a QUIC packet. A process type (switches::kProcessType) that indicates chrome.exe or setup.exe is being launched as crashpad_handler. WebRTC). Also, exposes the WindowServerTest interface to clients when launched with this flag. 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. Should completely disable extensions, sync and bookmarks. Enables experimental Harmony (ECMAScript 6) features. Enforces a one-site-per-process security policy: Number of worker threads used to rasterize content. Value for --type that causes the process to run as a NativeClient loader for non SFI mode. Disables merging the key event (WM_KEY*) with the char event (WM_CHAR). Enables TRACE for GL calls in the renderer. The colors are hinting at the amount of overdraw on your screen for each pixel, as follows: True color: No overdraw. Allows loopback interface to be added in network list for peer connection. Select the Processes tab and if you do not see a Command line column, right click any column . Please note this is not Chrome OS kiosk mode. This value is used as an option for |kEnableDefaultMediaSession|. Shows additional checkboxes in Settings to enable Chrome OS accessibility features that haven't launched yet. The "disable" flag for kEnableSingleClickAutofill. "4" means the modulus will be 2^4 = 16. An unspecified or empty string disables tracing. Disable paint invalidation based on slimming paint. If you wish to run the Microsoft Edge browser using the Command Prompt in Windows 11/10, here is how you can go about it. Disable the seccomp filter sandbox (seccomp-bpf) (Linux only). Give a scale factor to cause raster to take that many times longer to complete, such as --slow-down-raster-scale-factor=25. Default small wallpaper to use for kids accounts (as path to trusted, non-user-writable JPEG file). A string used to override the default user agent with a custom one. 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. Disables the window backdrops normally used in maximize mode (TouchView). Emulate ESSL lowp and mediump float precisions by mutating the shaders to round intermediate values in ANGLE. Enable keyboard shortcuts useful for debugging. Disables safebrowsing feature that checks download url and downloads content's hash to make sure the content are not malicious. Disables showing suggestions in a keyboard accessory view. Run devtools tests in debug mode (not bundled and minified). This is used for testing only. Prevents Chrome from requiring authorization to run certain widely installed but less commonly used plugins. Implicitly enables the site engagement service. they are not downloadable from Google). Passes gpu driver_date from browser process to GPU process. Disable showing available password credentials in the keyboard accessory view when focused on form fields. Signals the availability of the ARC instance on this device. By default connector uses CDD. Only supported on Android. Specify a custom path to devtools for devtools tests. - A wifi network is initially connected ('1' also works) 'wifi=off' Suppresses all error dialogs when present. Gives the default maximal active V-logging level; 0 is the default. Required if the server has authentication enabled. Enables saving net log events to a file and sets the file name to use. Blocks all insecure requests from secure contexts, and prevents the user from overriding that decision. (Most) Chrome OS hardware reports ACPI power button releases correctly. Starts the browser maximized, regardless of any previous settings. Very high values for this setting can lead to high memory/resource usage or instability. Useful for testing. Forces additional Chrome Variation Ids that will be sent in X-Client-Data header, specified as a 64-bit encoded list of numeric experiment ids. - u8it Sep 27, 2017 at 17:00 1 The file: scheme is not supported! edge://about-- Same as edge://edge-urls/; edge://accessibility-- Inspect the representation of accessibility in Edge and modify accessibility modes. Disables android user data wipe on opt out. Enables TLS/SSL errors on localhost to be ignored (no interstitial, no blocking of requests). Used for testing. Disables Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides component app so handlers won't be registered, making it possible to install another version for testing. Enables using the default search engine country to show country specific popular sites on the NTP. Sets the initial window size. See FieldTrialList::CreateTrialsFromString() in field_trial.h for details. Enable the aggressive flushing of DOM Storage to minimize data loss. So users can enable ARC via settings etc. Enables Physical Web scanning for nearby URLs. Causes the process to run as a sandbox IPC subprocess. List: :, :, Overrides network stub behavior. Packages an extension to a .crx installable file from a given directory. Set number of threads to use for video decoding. Indicates that the wallpaper images specified by kAshDefaultWallpaper{Large,Small} are OEM-specific (i.e. Passes active gpu vendor id from browser process to GPU process. Enables Kiosk mode for Chrome OS. Value indicating whether flag from command line switch is true. Enables the recording of metrics reports but disables reporting. See crbug.com/394380 for details. (http://crbug.com/119175). This hides certain system UI elements and forces the app to be installed if it hasn't been already. If there no --edge-fullscreen key, Edge successfully authenticate user with buit-in Windows authentication and does not show user name and password window on start up. Allows media playback for hidden WebContents. TODO(rouslan): Remove this flag when feedback testing is complete. Useful for UI/browser tests where we want to avoid having the default browser info-bar displayed. Sep 3, 2021 Microsoft Edge This article lists some command-line flags I used to troubleshoot Edge/Chrome issues. Comma-separated options to troubleshoot the component updater. More details here: and "foo." Assumed to be 0 if --accept-resource-provider is present. Enables experimental hardware acceleration for VP8/VP9 video decoding. d3d11: D3D11 renderer, ES2 and ES3. The boolean value (0/1) of FontRenderParams::antialiasing to be passed to Ppapi processes. Enables key bindings to scroll magnified screen. Microsoft Edge (Chromium) command-line switches The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is a classic desktop app that supports command-line arguments as Chrome does. If --edge-fullscreen key used, Edge demands user name and password. Hides notifications that are irrelevant to Chrome OS device factory testing, such as battery level updates. Enables the Android Wallpapers App as the default app on Chrome OS. When running certain tests that spawn child processes, this switch indicates to the test framework that the current process is a child process. Enables support for Handoff from Chrome on iOS to the default browser of other Apple devices. Draws a heads-up-display showing Frames Per Second as well as GPU memory usage. Disable settings in a separate browser window per profile (see SettingsWindowEnabled() below). The constant GOOGLE_CHROME_BUILD must be defined. Override os version from GpuControlList::MakeDecision. Disables hardware acceleration of video decode, where available. Sets the registration endpoint that will be used for creating new Google Cloud Messaging registrations. Sets the target URL for uploading tracing data. Overrides the device scale factor for the browser UI and the contents. Development versions of the browser may include additional resources. Tells chrome to display the cloud print dialog and upload the specified file for printing. Renders a border that represents the bounding box for the layer's animation. If this flag is set, we will add downloaded snippets that are missing some critical data to the list.