Chrome launch arguments

Overview

Chrome supports a variety of launch arguments/flags/switches, here are a few references:

• https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
• https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher/blob/master/docs/chrome-flags-for-tools.md
• https://niek.github.io/chrome-features/

Tips

Review

• Navigate to chrome://version to see the effective launch arguments of the current Chrome browser

Improving larger scale automation

• --no-zygote: was a actually a solution to the zombie processes spawning in my puppeteer-cluster
• --no-xshm: I had similar issues (running multiple concurrent Chrome in the same container) in the past that were resolved with this

Other

• --window-position: Hide while still being headful, useful when you can't use Xvfb.--window-position=-10000,10000