Disables the Win32K process mitigation policy for child processes. Disable several subsystems which run network requests in the background. Only valid with GPU accelerated compositing + impl-side painting. The token to use to construct the message pipe for a service in a child process. If unspecified, it will go to a default file name. 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. 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. For a file to show a warning, it also must be considered a dangerous filetype and not be whitelisted otherwise (by signature or URL) and must be on a supported OS. Select the Processes tab and if you do not see a Command line column, right click any column . Only used if the cloud print service has been enabled. Specifies if a heuristic should be used to determine the most probable target of a gesture, where the touch region is represented by a rectangle. "Command-line" arguments for the PPAPI Flash; used for debugging options. Capabilities are passed to a WebDriver session as a JSON map, but it is not necessary or recommended to set them this way. The constant BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_WEBRTC) must be defined. Enables suggestions with substring matching instead of prefix matching. You probably want the other one. This ignores user profile check and time limits and shows the notification every time for any type of user. For example, Selenium configures capabilities through the EdgeOptions class. Disables the new File System Provider API based ZIP unpacker. Setting this switch also causes Sync to be set up for a supervised user. Default small wallpaper to use (as path to trusted, non-user-writable JPEG file). DEPRECATED: Please use --arc-availability=installed. 1 Open Microsoft Edge. If the value doesn't start with !, a program will be debugged if manifest URL matches any pattern. Use a specific disk cache location, rather than one derived from the UserDatadir. Disables new profile management system, including new profile chooser UI. - http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models Flag indicating that a resource provider must be set up to provide cast receiver with resources. Enables password generation when we detect that the user is going through account creation. Indicates that a stub implementation of CrosSettings that stores settings in memory without signing should be used, treating current user as the owner. In some languages, the capabilities are implemented by the EdgeOptions class. Enables testing features of the Plugin Placeholder. Device scale factor passed to certain processes like renderers, etc. Enables the observation of accelerometer events to enter touch-view mode. Any other value will lead to Chrome detecting the best backend automatically. The switch is intended only for layout tests. Passes secondary gpu vendor ids from browser process to GPU process. This also turns on touch-screen pinch gestures. This flag also applys to workers. Enables overriding the path for the default authentication extension. - Get rid of this switch after we turn on multi-profile feature on ChromeOS. Sets options for MHTML generator to skip no-store resources: "skip-nostore-main" - fails to save a page if main frame is 'no-store' "skip-nostore-all" - also skips no-store subresources. E.g. (Used by people testing their sites.). Enable screen capturing support for MediaStream API. - officially-supported: ARC is installed and supported on this device. We can select from the options below: beginframe: Next frame can start without any delay on cc::scheduler in renderer compositors. Sets a secure proxy check URL to test before committing to using the Data Reduction Proxy. See http://crbug.com/259165 for more details. When present, desktop cast_shell will create 1080p window (provided display resolution is high enough). Disable user gesture requirement for media playback. {count} if present will be incremented each time a profile is generated for this process. Disables data volume counters in the Clear Browsing Data dialog. Enables DevTools server for UI (mus, ash, etc). Renders a border that represents the bounding box for the layer's animation. - http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-isolation Disables custom Cmd+` window cycling for platform apps and hosted apps. It is likely that the prefetcher won't work for these process types as it won't be able to observe consistent file reads across launches. Chromium-based Edge does not rely upon OS support for TLS. The directory breakpad should store minidumps in. 's (e.g., "12.3.456.78"). Logging is disabled by default in release builds. Should only be used for tests. 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. To open the Edge browser from the Command Prompt, follow the steps below. This page lists the available switches including their conditions and descriptions. Used primarily to gather samples for IPC fuzzing. Disables the dinosaur easter egg on the offline interstitial. Do not rename it sooner, though; developers and testers might rely on it keeping large amounts of testing passwords out of their Keyrings or KWallets. One should only enable it when automating dom based tests. Enables permission action reporting to Safe Browsing servers for opted in users. Override secondary gpu vendor ids from the GpuInfoCollector. Override gpu vendor id from the GpuInfoCollector. Sets the granularity of events to capture in the network log. Overrides the default/calculated limit to the number of renderer processes. Avoid doing expensive animations upon login. Use the sandbox Online Wallet service URL (for developer testing). List of Edge Command Line Switches? If the WebRTC logging private API is active, enables WebRTC event logging. Type the following path in the address bar to open the flags experimental settings in the new feature location: edge://flags/#edge-internet-explorer-integration Use the "Enable IE Integration" drop-down menu on the right and select the Enabled option. You specify the param list for multiple (trial, group) pairs with a comma separator. Set the value to 'always' to always throttle every plugin instance. Controls CrOS GaiaId migration for tests ("" is default). Stop the GPU from synchronizing on the vsync before presenting. Not passed on restart after sign out. Of the form language[-country] where language is the 2 letter code from ISO-639. The preferences are applied to the Local State file in the user data folder. Override the behavior of plugin throttling for testing. Enables the Android Wallpapers App as the default app on Chrome OS. The constants USE_OZONE and USE_X11 must be defined. The constant CHROMIUM_BUILD must be defined. This value is used as an option for |kEnableDefaultMediaSession|. Disables suggestions while typing on a physical keyboard. Makes pixel tests write their output instead of read it. Disables android user data wipe on opt out. Under the "Set up a kiosk" section, click the Assigned . We are currently testing the new browser in a trading room environment where we have to open several windows on specific sites on specific monitors with parameters as position and window-size. Enable kiosk mode. The constant ENABLE_WAYLAND_SERVER must be defined. Please use --arc-availability=officially-supported. Enables the proactive populating of the disk cache with Web resources that are likely to be needed in future page fetches. Will wait for 60 seconds for a debugger to come to attach to the process. Specifies the file name for --trace-to-file. Causes the PPAPI sub process to display a dialog on launch. Value should be the port the server is started on. Annotates forms with Autofill field type predictions. TODO(nkostylev): Investigate if this switch could be removed. Turn off user-defined name hashing in shaders. Specifies power stub behavior: 'cycle=2' - Cycles power states every 2 seconds. Re-rasters everything multiple times to simulate a much slower machine. Causes Chrome to launch without opening any windows by default. This option is enabled by default. Force logging to be enabled. Only valid if GPU rasterization is enabled as well. Report the given version for the PPAPI (Pepper) Flash. TODO(dalecurtis): Remove once experiments for http://crbug.com/470940 finish. This is an override for developers who need the old behavior for testing. Run devtools tests in debug mode (not bundled and minified). Enables display list based 2d canvas implementation. Enables the touch calibration option in MD settings UI for valid touch displays. Allows shmat() system call in the GPU sandbox. Assumed to be 0 if --accept-resource-provider is present. Give a scale factor to cause raster to take that many times longer to complete, such as --slow-down-raster-scale-factor=25. Clear search Overridden by kForceFirstRun. If supplied, sets the file which startup tracing will be stored into, if omitted the default will be used "chrometrace.log" in the current directory. Should we prompt the user before allowing external extensions to install? Ask the GLX driver for the default context instead of trying to get the highest version possible. Avoids outputting empty channels and permits drivers to enable stereo to multichannel expansion. Comma-separated list of rules that control how hostnames are mapped. Please see SetupStunProbeTrial in chrome_browser_field_trials_desktop.cc for more detail. More details here: Enables the HarfBuzz port of RenderText on Mac (it's already used only for text editing; this enables it for everything else). Flash will be ducked when losing audio focus. Skips reencoding bitmaps as PNGs when the encoded data is unavailable during SKP capture. WebRTC). Use names from RuntimeEnabledFeatures.json5, separated by commas. Applies the material design mode passed via --top-chrome-md to elements throughout Chrome (not just top Chrome). Launch Edge in InPrivate Browsing Mode Using Command Prompt There are two methods. Indicates that crash reporting should be enabled. * Thus, pages from different sites are never in the same process. Causes the GPU process to display a dialog on launch. For examples, see the, An address of a Windows Device Portal server to connect to, in the form of. Avoid the, A list of extensions to install on startup. Chromium task manager. If a value is passed, it will be used as a filter to determine if the child process should have the kWaitForDebugger flag passed on or not. all stored user keys will be converted to GaiaId). Ex: --ppapi-plugin-launcher="path\to\purify /Run=yes". Default behavior is to also quit all hosted apps. Enables support for Handoff from Chrome on iOS to the default browser of other Apple devices. Enables the heads-up display for tracking touch points. Normally positive values are used for V-logging levels. 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 . This article only lists capabilities specific to Microsoft Edge. If you do not see a left pane, then either click/tap on the 3 bars menu button towards the top left OR widen the horizontal borders of the Mic Normally the data gets written on exit but cases exist where chrome doesn't exit cleanly (especially when using single-process). Switches cc machinery to use layer lists instead of layer trees. Enables support to debug printing subsystem. Value indicating whether flag from command line switch is false. You can browse the web in Microsoft Edge in normal mode with different profiles, InPrivate browsing mode, and Guest mode. This flag is needed until the API is finalized. Causes the process to run as a utility subprocess. We bundle the handler into chrome.exe on Windows because there is high probability of a "new" .exe being blocked or interfered with by application firewalls, AV software, etc. AddExtensions ( "/path/to/extension.crx" ); var driver = new EdgeDriver ( options ); The colors are hinting at the amount of overdraw on your screen for each pixel, as follows: True color: No overdraw. Allow non-secure origins to use the screen capture API and the desktopCapture extension API. The constant OS_ANDROID must not be defined, and the constant BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_PLUGINS) must be defined. Enables sharing assets for installed default apps. If not specified, it defaults to "10.2.999.999". Name of the command line flag to force content verification to be on in one of various modes. Specifies the testcase used by the IPC fuzzer. Renders a border around compositor layers to help debug and study layer compositing. d3d11: D3D11 renderer, ES2 and ES3. If for some reason your path or environment variables aren't configured correctly, you may need to use the full path to Edge: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --app-shell-host-window-size="1280,1024" --window-size="1280,1024". Values for the kExtensionContentVerification flag. Allows clients to override the threshold for when the media renderer will declare the underflow state for the video stream when audio is present. Since Edge is based on Chromium, you can use most of Chromium's startup parameters . Microsoft Edge is a "Modern" Universal app. The constants OS_CHROMEOS and OS_MACOSX must not be defined, and the constant OS_POSIX must be defined. Visibly render a border around paint rects in the web page to help debug and study painting behavior. Sets a window size, optional position, and optional scale factor. Allows disabling of translate from the command line to assist with automated browser testing (e.g. Draws a heads-up-display showing Frames Per Second as well as GPU memory usage. Hack this in, so enabling it in about_flags enables the feature. Report per-task heap usage and churn in the task profiler. This can be used in tests. Whether to force developer mode extensions highlighting. This is how the metrics client ID is passed from the browser process to its children. Controls the behavior of history navigation in response to horizontal overscroll. Otherwise, they silently succeed. Sends a pretty-printed version of tracing info to the console. Enables site isolation for all chrome-extension:// urls. Use the Microsoft Edge setup guide to automate Configuration Manager steps. Disables use of toolkit-views based native app windows. The token to use to construct the message pipe on which to layer ChannelMojo. Configurable commands. Default is "http://clients2.google.com/cr/staging_report" for non prod. Names should be separated by "|" characters. Specify a custom path to devtools for devtools tests. Use an .y4m file to play as the webcam. The semicolon-separated list of proxy server URIs to override the list of HTTP proxies returned by the Data Saver API. (Supported only on Linux. Logging is enabled by default in debug builds. The webviewOptions dictionary is used to configure the WebView2 environment when launching a WebView2 app. Enables suggestions while typing on a physical keyboard. The argument is a list of name and value pairs, separated by slashes. d3d9: Legacy D3D9 renderer, ES2 only. Enables extension options to be embedded in chrome://extensions rather than a new tab. When specified to "enable-leak-detection" command-line option, causes the leak detector to cause immediate crash when found leak. Sets the supervised user ID for any loaded or newly created profile to the given value. Enable one or more Blink runtime-enabled features. This is generally only useful for tests that want to force disabling. Used for testing - keeps browser alive after last browser window closes. These two flags are added around the switches about:flags adds to the command line. Microsoft Edge (Chromium) command-line switches The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is a classic desktop app that supports command-line arguments as Chrome does. Specifies Android phone page loading progress bar animation. Uses WinHTTP to fetch and evaluate PAC scripts. Porvides a list of addresses to discover DevTools remote debugging targets. If edge is your default app for the read protocol, then you can launch it by typing the following in file explorer read:http://www.cnn.com. swiftshader: The SwiftShader software renderer. Implicitly enables the site engagement service. On platforms where helper processes cannot access to files needed to make this decision, this flag is generated internally. Allow heuristics to determine when a layer tile should be drawn with the Skia GPU backend. Force easy unlock app loading in test. If software renderer is not in place, then the GPU process won't launch. If true, the Chromebook has a keyboard with a diamond key. Enables fanciful thumbnail processing. This does not start service or register proxy for autostart. Encode binary layout test results (images, audio) using base64. Issues a stop after the specified number of milliseconds. This defaults to primary user homedir. - Interactive mode, connect/scan/etc requests take 3 secs. This will open the hidden C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\Local\Microsoft folder for the current user. Does not show an infobar when an extension attaches to a page using chrome.debugger page. See ContentVerifierDelegate::Mode for more explanation. The values the kTouchEventFeatureDetection switch may have, as in --touch-events=disabled. Extra command line options for launching the GPU process (normally used for debugging). Useful if one wishes to use Chrome as an ash server. This applies only when the process type is "service". For example: "MAP * 127.0.0.1" --> Forces all hostnames to be mapped to 127.0.0.1 "MAP *.google.com proxy" --> Forces all google.com subdomains to be resolved to "proxy". Disables the new rendering algorithm for webrtc, which is designed to improve the rendering smoothness. You can start the Office app as usual, by clicking the program icon on the desktop, or by clicking the program name on the Start menu. Enables using screenshots in tests and seets mode. Redirect stderr to the given port. Disables the video decoder from drawing to an NV12 textures instead of ARGB. Useful values might be "valgrind" or "xterm -e gdb --args". Default is false. Not available everywhere. A comma-separated string of Microsoft Edge tracing categories for which trace events should be collected. Disable field trial tests configured in fieldtrial_testing_config.json. Enables the network-related benchmarking extensions. Use Windows WaveOut/In audio API even if Core Audio is supported. 2. Number of worker threads used to rasterize content. "Override" value for kCrosRegionsMode (region's data is read first). Enables dynamic rendering pipeline switching to optimize the performance of 2d canvas. Be sure to use --no-sandbox as well or the sandbox won't allow the dialog to display. When running tests on a system without the required hardware or libraries, this flag will cause the tests to fail. Specifies the maximum SSL/TLS version ("tls1", "tls1.1", "tls1.2", or "tls1.3"). Enables SwapBuffersWithBounds if it is supported. If this flag is set, enable data roaming in the cellular network by default upon system start if it's an unmanaged device. Windows' IE 11 and Legacy Edge did not support TLS/1.3 in Windows 10 until recently, but do support TLS/1.3 in Windows 11. Disables installation of default apps on first run. 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. Instead of always using the hardware channel layout, check if a driver supports the source channel layout. E.g. The name of the service the process is starting for. If this switch is set, the device cannot be remotely disabled by its owner. Defaults to disabled. Enables compositor-accelerated touch-screen pinch gestures. This switch is used during automated testing. Should only be used for testing purposes. The following lockdown experiences are available: Digital/Interactive Signage experience - Displays a specific site in full-screen mode. Also emit full event trace logs for successful tests. Force the use of MediaFoundation for video capture. Disables bypass proxy for captive portal authorization. Instructs headless_shell to cause network fetches to complete in order of creation. Server url to upload crash data to. Pass an empty string to mark the profile as non-supervised. Sets a URL to fetch to warm up the data reduction proxy on startup and network changes. Suppresses all error dialogs when present. Prioritizes the UI's command stream in the GPU process. This will only work if chrome has been built with the gyp variable profiling=1 or gn arg enable_profiling=true. Some tests seem to require the application to close when the last browser window is closed. But the vast majority should be the same. The dev mode probing is done by session manager. By default, an https page cannot run JavaScript, CSS or plugins from http URLs. Starts the GPU sandbox before creating a GL context. Scenario: My organization uses separate accounts for elevated privileged actions. Use an fp16 scRGB swap chain compatible with HDR output. Enable keyboard shortcuts used by developers only. Disables notifications about captive portals in session. - Clears all default configurations 'wifi=on' Disables ARC Opt-in verification process and ARC is enabled by default. Enables demuxing of vp9 in mp4. Interval at which we check for total time on OOBE. Used with kCloudPrintFile to specify a title for the resulting print job. Start the Create Application Wizard and create the application In the Configuration Manager console, click Software Library > Application Management > Applications. Skips all other OOBE pages after user login. With the policy set to full screen, and the full-screen keyboard . Enables custom Cmd+` window cycling for platform apps and hosted apps. *