Should only be used for testing purposes. Value for kTestCrosGaiaIdMigration indicating that migration is started (i.e. Enables/disables suggestions without typing anything (on first click). Specifies a list of hosts for whom we bypass proxy settings and use direct connections. Determines which Google Privacy CA to use for attestation. Disables 3D APIs, including WebGL and Pepper 3D. Loads an extension from the specified directory. --user-data-dir msedge.exe --user-data-dir=c:\temp\NewEdgeUser This command-line flag overrides the User Data Directory, see User Data Directory for more details. This allows us to check whether or not reloading a webpage releases web-related objects correctly. Does not automatically open a browser window on startup (used when launching Chrome for the purpose of hosting background apps). This does not start service or register proxy for autostart. Multiple options can be comma separated (no spaces). This is different from the Media Session API as it is enabling a default behaviour for the browser. Should be set to true for internal audio products. The following table shows the configurable commands, how to use them, and what they do. Enabled threaded compositing for layout tests. Enables support for inband text tracks in media content. Specifies the local sync backend directory. 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 Do not force that all compositor resources be backed by GPU memory buffers. This flag only matters if the enable-local-sync-backend flag is present. --ash-force-desktop. To see a list of all the available shortcuts in Microsoft Edge, see Keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Edge. 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. The name of the service the process is starting for. Enables Translate experimental new UX which replaces the infobar. Disables crash throttling for Portable Native Client. Minimum number of available frames for scheduling a transfer. Enable site isolation (--site-per-process style isolation) for a subset of sites. "MAP test.com [::1]:77 --> Forces "test.com" to resolve to IPv6 loopback. This in turn will disable WebGL2. See http://crbug.com/259165 for more details. - Get rid of this switch after we turn on multi-profile feature on ChromeOS. Use an fp16 scRGB swap chain compatible with HDR output. Disables the default browser check. 1 View app command lines. Should only be used for tests. Flag to enable or disable notification changes while the message center opens. Only available with XInput 2 (i.e. It is not practical for me to login to Windows as that separate account. If you also use --enable-logging=stderr --vmodule="head*=1" then FPS will also be output to the console log. Specifies if the |DOMAutomationController| needs to be bound in the renderer. The constant ENABLE_WAYLAND_SERVER must be defined. If the WebRTC logging private API is active, enables WebRTC event logging. By default, if any CDM host (including signature) file is missing, the CDM will not be called to verify the host. 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. 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. Has no effect unless --trace-startup is also supplied. Disables password generation when we detect that the user is going through account creation. Forces first-run UI to be shown for every login. Force showing the local save checkbox in the autofill dialog box for getting the full credit card number for a wallet card. The "disable" flag for kEnableSingleClickAutofill. This flag is used by Rialto device to obtain device policy during OOBE since the Rialto device has no display and and only connects over cell. Disables notification when device is in end of life status. Sep 3, 2021 Microsoft Edge This article lists some command-line flags I used to troubleshoot Edge/Chrome issues. (See ProcessSingleton for more details.). - u8it Sep 27, 2017 at 17:00 1 The file: scheme is not supported! This is used during automated testing. I want to start Microsoft Edge with a given url and I want it to start in maximized state.. Based on this article we know that Process.Start(url) does not work in .netcore. Enables the multi-level undo system for bookmarks. Uses NaCl manifest URL to choose whether NaCl program will be debugged by debug stub. Visualize overdraw by color-coding elements based on if they have other elements drawn underneath. Url for network connectivity checking. Tells Chrome to do edge touch filtering. Use fake device for Media Stream to replace actual camera and microphone. Bitmask - 0x1=Microsoft, 0x2=AMD, 0x03=Try all. Designed to be used for testing purposes only. If this switch is set, the device cannot be remotely disabled by its owner. Capabilities are passed to a WebDriver session as a JSON map, but it is not necessary or recommended to set them this way. Pink: Overdrawn three times. Enable one or more Blink runtime-enabled features. Precache manifests will be served from URLs with this prefix. It has been observed that when file reads are consistent for 3 process launches with the same /prefetch:# argument, the Windows prefetcher starts issuing reads in batch at process launch. Turns off the accessibility in the renderer. 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 context-sensitive reader mode button in the toolbar. If true, the Chromebook has a keyboard with a diamond key. See base::FeatureList::InitializeFromCommandLine for details. 'forcealltrue' to force the value on all nodes. This is how the metrics client ID is passed from the browser process to its children. Enables showing suggestions in a keyboard accessory view. Comma-separated list of SSL cipher suites to disable. Logs GPU control list decisions when enforcing blacklist rules. List of comma-separated sha256 hashes of executable files which the download-protection service should treat as "dangerous." Specify ozone platform implementation to use. Examples: 'clear=1' gl: Desktop GL renderer, ES2 and ES3. Inform Chrome that a GPU context will not be lost in power saving mode, screen saving mode, etc. This binding happens on per-frame basis and hence can potentially be a performance bottleneck. Not for user use. Default values are 150M for video and 12M for audio. Enable native GPU memory buffer support when available. gles: GLES renderer, ES2 and ES3. Convert rasterization and compositing inputs to the output color space before operating on them. "800,0+800-800x800" for two displays at 800x800 resolution. Normally positive values are used for V-logging levels. Specifies the maximum number of threads to use for running the Proxy Autoconfig (PAC) script. Enables password generation when we detect that the user is going through account creation. Allows loopback interface to be added in network list for peer connection. Normally when the user attempts to navigate to a page that was the result of a post we prompt to make sure they want to. Disables safebrowsing feature that checks for blacklisted extensions. The URL from which to retrieve the Data Reduction Proxy configuration. The period of an ALSA output device determines how many frames elapse between hardware interrupts. Disable partial raster in the renderer. Default is "http://clients2.google.com/cr/staging_report" for non prod. Will wait for 60 seconds for a debugger to come to attach to the process. used to enable safebrowsing functionality in webview. Optional PEM private key to use in signing packaged .crx. Disables use of ES3 backend (use ES2 backend instead). It can still be dismissed via the other methods (like the Esc key). Disables the dinosaur easter egg on the offline interstitial. Sets the target URL for uploading tracing data. Adds debugging entries such as Inspect Element to context menus of packed apps. Type " cmd " and press Enter to open the Command Prompt window. Runs the renderer and plugins in the same process as the browser. Indicates the last session should be restored on startup. Enables using signed distance fields when rendering text. This means it can't be opened from the command line in the traditional Windows manner: Executable name followed by command switches/parameter. An unspecified or empty string disables tracing. See http://crbug.com/120416 for how to remove this switch. Mutes audio sent to the audio device so it is not audible during automated testing. Disable limits on the number of backing stores. Enable this switch to ignore missing CDM host files. Allows disabling of translate from the command line to assist with automated browser testing (e.g. If the URI omits a scheme, then the proxy server scheme defaults to HTTP, and if the port is omitted then the default port for that scheme is used. The constant OS_IOS must not be defined, and the constant OS_MACOSX must be defined. Values are case sensitive and based on Shill names in service_constants.h. Disables native GPU memory buffer support. Percentage of the browser controls need to be hidden before they will auto hide. Default is "http://clients2.google.com/cr/report" for prod devices. The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is a classic desktop app that supports command-line arguments as Chrome does. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/Key_Log_Format for the format. The new Chromium based Microsoft Edge is supported on all versions of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server (2016 and above), Windows Server (2008 R2 to 2012 R2), and macOS. Apps cannot start until provided resources. The names are declared in Settings.json5. Forces Chrome to use localNTP instead of server (GWS) NTP. (http://crbug.com/148675). Optionally, can specify the specific trace categories to include (e.g. A string used to override the default user agent with a custom one. This is used for testing only. This directly sets the latency of the output device. Normally the data gets written on exit but cases exist where chrome doesn't exit cleanly (especially when using single-process). TLS/1.3 is supported natively within the new Chromium-based Edge on all platforms. Annotates forms and fields with Autofill signatures. TODO(lzheng): Remove this flag once the feature works fine (http://crbug.com/74848). Directory where the browser stores the user profile. A list of whitelists to install for a supervised user, for testing. Passes active gpu device id from browser process to GPU process. This option can be used to force parameters of field trials when testing changes locally. This article describes the Microsoft Edge commands that can be configured via the ConfigureKeyboardShortcuts policy. Whether to force developer mode extensions highlighting. If present, safebrowsing only performs update when SafeBrowsingProtocolManager::ForceScheduleNextUpdate() is explicitly called. 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". Kept behind a flag since some drivers lie about supported layouts and hang when used. "800,0+800-800x800,0+1600-800x800" for three displays at 800x800 resolution. "1024x768" creates a window of size 1024x768. How many frames need to be in the output buffer before output starts. Once all network fetches have completed, timers fire and if the system runs out of virtual time is fastforwarded so the next timer fires immediatley, until the specified virtual time budget is exhausted. Power of the power-of-2 initial modulus that will be used by the auto-enrollment client. - installed-only-kiosk-supported: ARC is installed, but officially supported only in kiosk mode. Note: the URL must contain one '%s' for the extension ID. Example: --trace-startup --trace-startup-file=/tmp/trace_event.log As a special case, can be set to 'none' By default pseudo stacks derived from trace events are reported. This should be used only for testing purpose. Sets the width and height above which a composited layer will get tiled. All keys are optional. Path to a comma-separated list of apps to load at startup. Required if the server has authentication enabled. They allow you to run Chrome with special options that can help you troubleshoot or enable particular features or modify otherwise . Enabled the local sync backend implemented by the LoopbackServer. This flag causes sync to retry very quickly (see polling_constants.h) the when it encounters an error, as the first step towards exponential backoff. If this flag is set, we will add downloaded snippets that are missing some critical data to the list. X server 1.8 or above). It should not be enabled for most Cast devices. Note that the remote debugging protocol does not perform any authentication, so exposing it too widely can be a security risk. Enables the proactive populating of the disk cache with Web resources that are likely to be needed in future page fetches. See ContentVerifierDelegate::Mode for more explanation. Lists separated by commas the name of features to disable. This argument is used to launch a browser with disabled third-party extensions. Porvides a list of addresses to discover DevTools remote debugging targets. If supplied, sets the file which shutdown tracing will be stored into, if omitted the default will be used "chrometrace.log" in the current directory. Allows the browser to load extensions that lack a modern manifest when that would otherwise be forbidden. Used to authenticate requests to the Sync service for supervised users. This flag implies --alsa-check-close-timeout=0. Enables the network-related benchmarking extensions. Use exclusive mode audio streaming for Windows Vista and higher. Uses the 1st display in --ash-host-window-bounds as internal display. Description. If not specified, the platform default is used. - Displays a dialog box that shows the correct usage of the Setup command, including a list of all its command-line switches and their behaviors. The constant BUILDFLAG(ENABLE_RUNTIME_MEDIA_RENDERER_SELECTION) must be defined. egl: whatever EGL / GLES2 the user has installed (Windows default - actually ANGLE). Chromium task manager. They don't have any effect. Enables deferring sync backend initialization until user initiated changes occur. Give a scale factor to cause raster to take that many times longer to complete, such as --slow-down-raster-scale-factor=25. Defaults to disabled. Enables experimental hardware acceleration for VP8/VP9 video decoding. Disables tab detaching in fullscreen mode on Mac. To see a list of all the available shortcuts in Microsoft Edge, see Keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Edge. Enable automatically pressing the print button in print preview. Rather than use the renderer hosted remotely in the media service, fall back to the default renderer within content_renderer. Enable: allow browser to use display list for 2d canvas (browser makes decision). *