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Consider adding --test-type chrome flag

Open paulirish opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

--test-type=foo has some interesting effects: https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=kTestType%5Cb&type=cs

Need to collect its effects and make sure ALL users of chrome-launcher want these changes made.

paulirish avatar Sep 12 '17 18:09 paulirish

joel and i looked at it and --test-type is basically the 2014 version of --enable-automation

  • It avoids creating application stubs in ~/Applications on mac.
  • It makes exit codes slightly more correct
  • windows navigation jumplists arent updated https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=389375
  • doesn't start some chrome StartPageService
  • disables initializing chromecast service
  • "Component extensions with background pages are not enabled during tests because they generate a lot of background behavior that can interfere."
  • when quitting the browser, it disables additional checks that may stop that quitting process. (like unsaved form modifications or unhandled profile notifications..)

paulirish avatar Sep 12 '17 22:09 paulirish

Added these notes as docs in https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher/blob/master/docs/chrome-flags-for-tools.md

paulirish avatar Dec 08 '17 20:12 paulirish