I am running automated tests in Chrome with Serenity BDD (Selenium).
I had to download a new ChromeDriver, because my tests could not run -> The test would open ChromeDriver but could not "Browse as user". When I googled the issue, they said I had to update ChromeDriver.
So I updated ChromeDriver to version 2.28 and I also updated the Chrome version to Version 57.0.2987.98.
But now - EVERY TIME I run my tests this annoying text comes up:
Chrome is being controlled by automated test software
And it asks me if I want to save password. (I can't add pictures because I don't have enough "points")
In the previous version, I had managed to block these 2 things by:
public class CustomChromeDriver implements DriverSource { @Override public WebDriver newDriver() { try { DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome(); Proxy proxy = new Proxy(); String proxyServer = String.format("AProxyIDontWantToDisplay", System.getenv("proxy.username"), System.getenv("proxy.password")); proxy.setHttpProxy(proxyServer); capabilities.setCapability("proxy", proxy); ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); options.addArguments(Arrays.asList("--no-sandbox","--ignore-certificate-errors","--homepage=about:blank","--no-first-run")); capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options); ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities); return driver; } catch (Exception e) { throw new Error(e); } } @Override public boolean takesScreenshots() { return true; }
}I know there is this one (A link to same issue), but there are too many answers that don't work.
Anybody that knows how to remove that?
417 Answers
Add this to the options you pass to the driver:
options.addArguments("disable-infobars");Previously, passing the "disable-infobars” ChromeOption to the WebDriver prevented Chrome from displaying this notification. Recently, the "disable-infobars" option has been deprecated and no longer removes the notification. The current workaround for this is to pass in an option called "excludeSwitches" and then exclude the "enable_automation" switch.
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", new String[]{"enable-automation"});
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options); "disable-info" switch is not supported anymore for the latest chromedrivers. (at least 76.0).
@Rajeev's answer works and here I write the counterpart for C#.
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("useAutomationExtension", false);
chromeOptions.AddExcludedArgument("enable-automation");
Driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches",Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);Use the above codes for latest Chrome drivers.
0While the disable-infobars route will work, it will likely suppress the infobar in all cases (as suggested here), not just the case that the OP is referring to. This is overkill at best, and could lead to unexpected and inexplicable behavior in the future if you are not getting some important message.
I think it's better to leverage the provided enable-automation switch by disabling it in the excludeSwitches area of your config/setup while doing nothing with regards to disable-inforbars. The enable-automation switch's description:
Inform users that their browser is being controlled by an automated test.
For nightwatch.conf.js it would look something like this (and worked for me):
desiredCapabilities: { ... chromeOptions: { excludeSwitches: ['enable-automation'], ... }
}This should only do what we are after: getting rid of that specific pesky message!
Edit [2017-11-14]: This is now causing an even more annoying Disable Developer Mode Extensions alert/warning. I've tried every relevant-looking flag/switch I could find that might help, but to no avail. I've filed a bug with Chromium, so we'll see and I'll try to swing back through here if I get a resolution.
Tried many of these suggested solutions, but none of them worked. OK, my code is in C#, so there might be some differences in the WebDriver implementations for different platforms.
Anyway, the solution that I got working was using the following options for Chrome when running on .NET.
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddExcludedArguments("enable-automation");On .NET there doesn't seem to be any setExperimentalOption() method on the ChromeOptions class.
May someone needs this for Capybara, Watir should be like this:
Capybara.register_driver :chrome do |app| $driver = Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, {:browser => :chrome, :args => [ "--disable-infobars" ]})
end"disable-infobars" flag has been deprecated, but you can avoid this message by adding the following:
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches",Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);It works for me, with this code I am able to disable Chrome is being controlled by automated test software as well as the Save password popup`
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("credentials_enable_service", false);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches",Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options)Protractor solution:
I arrived here searching for a Protractor solution, if useful for anyone I found, with help from the above answers; with Protractor you can add Chrome specific options to the chromeOptions object, within the capabilities object in the protractor.config file, for example to use the disable-infobars option discussed above use the following:
capabilities: { 'browserName': 'chrome', 'chromeOptions': { 'args': ['disable-infobars'] }
},To use the enable-automation also discussed above:
capabilities: { 'browserName': 'chrome', 'chromeOptions': { 'excludeSwitches': ['enable-automation'] }
}disable-infobars is preferred in my circumstances.
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
//To Turns off multiple download warning
prefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
prefs.put( "profile.content_settings.pattern_pairs.*.multiple-automatic-downloads", 1 );
//Turns off download prompt
prefs.put("download.prompt_for_download", false); prefs.put("credentials_enable_service", false);
//To Stop Save password propmts
prefs.put("password_manager_enabled", false);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("chrome.switches","--disable-extensions");
//To Disable any browser notifications
options.addArguments("--disable-notifications");
//To disable yellow strip info bar which prompts info messages
options.addArguments("disable-infobars");
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "Chromedriver path");
options.addArguments("--test-type");
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
Log.info("Chrome browser started");public WebDriver SetupChromeDriver(){ //Initialize Chrome Driver ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>(); prefs.put("safebrowsing.enabled", "true"); options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs); options.addArguments("--disable-notifications"); options.addArguments("--start-maximized"); options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "E:/Importent Softwares/Chrome Driver/chromedriver_2.37.exe"); driver = new ChromeDriver(options); return driver;
}It works for me by using addArguments(array("disable-infobars"))
This is for facebook/php-webdriver
$options = new ChromeOptions();
$options->addArguments(array("disable-infobars"));
$capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::chrome();
$capabilities->setCapability(ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options);
$this->driver = RemoteWebDriver::create(' $capabilities);You may use this
options1.add_argument("--app=")Works on 2022
remove Chrome is being controlled by automated test software in python
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver import WebDriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chromeOptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chromeOptions.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ['enable-automation']);
URL = ""
driver.get(URL)If anyone is using Rails 5.1+, which changed the testing structure a bit and Capybara is configured in this file now for system tests:
application_system_test_case.rbYou can add "args" in the options for driven_by like this:
driven_by :selenium, using: :chrome, screen_size: [1400, 1400], options: { args: ["--disable-infobars"] }It took a lot of fiddling but eventually I found a combination of flags that works in 2021!
This tells Chrome to ignore all SSL errors, disables the "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software" message and starts in full screen. Add it to the Target field of your shortcut:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --ignore-certificate-errors --test-type=webdriver --start-fullscreen
