List of Chromium Command Line Switches (for 2012-09-26)
There are lots of command lines which can be used with the Google Chrome browser. Some change behavior of features, others are for debugging or experimenting. This page lists the available switches including their conditions and descriptions. Last automated update occurred on 2025-04-06.
| Condition | Explanation |
|---|---|
| --0 ⊗ | 0 means don't allow reordering results ( == current behavior as of 6/2012). ↪ Removed on 2013-07-14. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --1 ⊗ | The value the kOmniboxHistoryQuickProviderReorderForInlining switch may have, as in "--omnibox-history-quick-provider-reorder-for-inlining=1". 1 means allow reordering results. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-14. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-cross-origin-auth-prompt ⊗ | Allows third-party content included on a page to prompt for a HTTP basic auth username/password pair. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-file-access ⊗ | On ChromeOS, file:// access is disabled except for certain whitelisted directories. This switch re-enables file:// for testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-file-access-from-files ⊗ | By default, file:// URIs cannot read other file:// URIs. This is an override for developers who need the old behavior for testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --allow-http-background-page ⊗ | Allows non-https URL for background_page for hosted apps. ↪ Removed on 2013-11-09. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-legacy-extension-manifests ⊗ | Allows the browser to load extensions that lack a modern manifest when that would otherwise be forbidden. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-19. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-nacl-socket-api[1] ⊗ | Specifies comma-separated list of extension ids or hosts to grant access to TCP/UDP socket APIs. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-outdated-plugins ⊗ | Don't block outdated plugins. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-running-insecure-content ⊗ | By default, an https page cannot run JavaScript, CSS or plug-ins from http URLs. This provides an override to get the old insecure behavior. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-sandbox-debugging ⊗ | Allows debugging of sandboxed processes (see zygote_main_linux.cc). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --allow-scripting-gallery ⊗ | Allows injecting extensions and user scripts on the extensions gallery site. Normally prevented for security reasons, but can be useful for automation testing of the gallery. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-19. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --allow-webui-compositing ⊗ | Allow compositing on chrome:// pages. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-19. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --alsa-input-device[2] ⊗ | The Alsa device to use when opening an audio input stream. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --alsa-output-device[2] ⊗ | The Alsa device to use when opening an audio stream. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --always-authorize-plugins ⊗ | Prevents Chrome from requiring authorization to run certain widely installed but less commonly used plug-ins. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --app ⊗ | Specifies that the associated value should be launched in "application" mode. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --app-id ⊗ | Specifies that the extension-app with the specified id should be launched according to its configuration. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --app-notify-channel-server-url ⊗ | A URL for the server which assigns channel ids for server pushed app notifications. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-10. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --app-window-size ⊗ | Specifies the initial size for application windows launched with --app. --app-window-size=w,h ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apple ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --apps-checkout-url ⊗ | Overrides the apps checkout URL, which is used to determine when to expose some private APIs. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apps-gallery-download-url ⊗ | The URL that the webstore APIs download extensions from. Note: the URL must contain one '%s' for the extension ID. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apps-gallery-install-auto-confirm-for-tests ⊗ | A setting to cause extension/app installs from the webstore skip the normal confirmation dialog. A value of 'accept' means to always act as if the dialog was accepted, and 'cancel' means to always act as if the dialog was cancelled. TODO (rdevlin.cronin): Remove this. This is not a good use of a command-line flag, as it would be equally effective as a global boolean. Additionally, this opens up a dangerous way for attackers to append a commandline flag and circumvent all user action for installing an extension. ↪ Removed on 2014-07-24. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apps-gallery-return-tokens ⊗ | Allows the webstorePrivate APIs to return browser (aka sync) login tokens to be used for auto-login in the Web Store (normally they do not). ↪ Removed on 2013-01-18. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apps-gallery-update-url ⊗ | The update url used by gallery/webstore extensions. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apps-gallery-url ⊗ | The URL to use for the gallery link in the app launcher. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apps-new-install-bubble ⊗ | Whether to always use the new app install bubble when installing an app. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-12. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --apps-no-throb ⊗ | Disable throbber for extension apps. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-26. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ash-webui-init ⊗ | When wallpaper boot animation is not disabled this switch is used to override OOBE/sign in WebUI init type. Possible values: parallel|postpone. Default: parallel. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --assert-test ⊗ | Causes the browser process to throw an assertion on startup. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --auth-ext-path ⊗ | Enables overriding the path for the default authentication extension. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --auth-negotiate-delegate-whitelist ⊗ | Whitelist of servers that Negotiate will generate delegated Kerberos tickets for. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --auth-schemes ⊗ | HTTP authentication schemes to enable. This is a comma-separated list of authentication schemes (basic, digest, ntlm, and negotiate). By default all schemes are enabled. The primary use of this command line flag is to help triage authentication-related issues reported by end-users. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --auth-server-whitelist ⊗ | Whitelist of servers which NTLM and Negotiate can automatically authenticate with using the default credentials of the currently logged in user. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --auto ⊗ | The values the kTouchEvents switch may have, as in --touch-events=disabled. auto: enabled at startup when an attached touchscreen is present. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/events/event_switches.cc. |
| --auto-launch-at-startup ⊗ | A flag that is used to tell Chrome that it was launched automatically at computer startup and not by some user action. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --automatic ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2013-11-06. This switch was listed in /ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --automation-channel ⊗ | The value of this switch tells the app to listen for and broadcast automation-related messages on IPC channel with the given ID. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-02. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --automation-reinitialize-on-channel-error ⊗ | Causes the automation provider to reinitialize its IPC channel instead of shutting down when a client disconnects. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-11. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --basic[3] ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2012-10-02. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --blacklist-accelerated-compositing ⊗ | Blacklist the GPU for accelerated compositing. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --blacklist-webgl ⊗ | Blacklist the GPU for WebGL. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --browser-subprocess-path ⊗ | Path to the exe to run for the renderer and plugin subprocesses. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --bwsi ⊗ | Indicates that the browser is in "browse without sign-in" (Guest session) mode. Should completely disable extensions, sync and bookmarks. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --channel ⊗ | The value of this switch tells the child process which IPC channel the browser expects to use to communicate with it. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ipc/ipc_switches.cc. |
| --check-cloud-print-connector-policy ⊗ | Checks the cloud print connector policy, informing the service process if the policy is set to disallow the connector, then quits. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --check-for-update-interval ⊗ | How often (in seconds) to check for updates. Should only be used for testing purposes. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --child-clean-exit[4] ⊗ | Causes the child processes to cleanly exit via calling exit(). ↪ Removed on 2014-03-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --chrome-frame ⊗ | Run Chrome in Chrome Frame mode. This means that Chrome expects to be run as a dependent process of the Chrome Frame plugin. ↪ Removed on 2014-01-10. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --chrome-frame-shutdown-delay ⊗ | Tells Chrome to delay shutdown (for a specified number of seconds) when a Chrome Frame automation channel is closed. ↪ Removed on 2013-04-18. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --chrome-version ⊗ | Tells chrome to load the specified version of chrome.dll on Windows. If this version cannot be loaded, Chrome will exit. ↪ Removed on 2014-01-11. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --chromeos-release-board[5] ⊗ | Enables overriding the Chrome OS board type when running on Linux. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-25. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --cipher-suite-blacklist ⊗ | Comma-separated list of SSL cipher suites to disable. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --clear-token-service ⊗ | Clears the token service before using it. This allows simulating the expiration of credentials during testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/signin/core/common/signin_switches.cc. |
| --cloud-print-delete-file ⊗ | Used with kCloudPrintFile. Tells Chrome to delete the file when finished displaying the print dialog. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-13. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --cloud-print-file ⊗ | Tells chrome to display the cloud print dialog and upload the specified file for printing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --cloud-print-file-type ⊗ | Specifies the mime type to be used when uploading data from the file referenced by cloud-print-file. Defaults to "application/pdf" if unspecified. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --cloud-print-job-title ⊗ | Used with kCloudPrintFile to specify a title for the resulting print job. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --cloud-print-print-ticket ⊗ | Used with kCloudPrintFile to specify a JSON print ticket for the resulting print job. Defaults to null if unspecified. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --cloud-print-proxy-id ⊗ | The unique id to be used for this cloud print proxy instance. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-16. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --cloud-print-service ⊗ | The URL of the cloud print service to use, overrides any value stored in preferences, and the default. Only used if the cloud print service has been enabled. Used for testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --component-updater-debug ⊗ | Comma-separated options to troubleshoot the component updater. Only valid for the browser process. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-04. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --compositor[3] ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2012-10-02. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --compress-sys-feedback[5] ⊗ | Triggers ChromeOS system log compression during feedback submit. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-18. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --conflicting-modules-check ⊗ | Causes the browser process to inspect loaded and registered DLLs for known conflicts and warn the user. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-28. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --country ⊗ | The Country we should use. This is normally obtained from the operating system during first run and cached in the preferences afterwards. This is a string value, the 2 letter code from ISO 3166-1. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-11. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --crash-on-hang-seconds ⊗ | Causes the browser process to crash if browser threads are not responding for the given number of seconds. ↪ Removed on 2013-02-12. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --crash-on-hang-threads ⊗ | Comma-separated list of BrowserThreads that cause browser process to crash if the given browser thread is not responsive. UI,IO,DB,FILE,CACHE are the list of BrowserThreads that are supported. For example: --crash-on-hang-threads=UI:3:18,IO:3:18 --> Crash the browser if UI or IO is not responsive for 18 seconds and the number of browser threads that are responding is less than or equal to 3. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --crash-on-live ⊗ | Causes the browser process to crash if the number of browser threads that are responding is equal to the given number. For example: --crash-on-live=1 --> Crash if only one thread is responsive and all other threads are not responsive. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-14. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --crash-test ⊗ | Causes the browser process to crash on startup. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --create-browser-on-startup-for-tests ⊗ | Some platforms like ChromeOS default to empty desktop. Browser tests may need to add this switch so that at least one browser instance is created on startup. TODO(nkostylev): Investigate if this switch could be removed. (http://crbug.com/148675) ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --debug-children ⊗ | Will add kDebugOnStart to every child processes. If a value is passed, it will be used as a filter to determine if the child process should have the kDebugOnStart flag passed on or not. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in ipc/ipc_switches.cc. |
| --debug-devtools-frontend ⊗ | Path to the inspector files on disk (allows reloading of devtool files without having to restart the browser). ↪ Removed on 2012-09-27. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --debug-enable-frame-toggle ⊗ | Enables a frame context menu item that toggles the frame in and out of glass mode (Windows Vista and up only). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --debug-on-start ⊗ | If the program includes base/debug/debug_on_start_win.h, the process will (on Windows only) start the JIT system-registered debugger on itself and will wait for 60 seconds for the debugger to attach to itself. Then a break point will be hit. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --debug-plugin-loading ⊗ | Dumps extra logging about plugin loading to the log file. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --debug-print[6] ⊗ | Enables support to debug printing subsystem. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --default-tile-height ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --default-tile-width ⊗ | Sets the tile size used by composited layers. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --desktop ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --device-management-url ⊗ | Specifies the URL at which to fetch configuration policy from the device management backend. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/policy/core/common/policy_switches.cc. |
| --diagnostics ⊗ | Triggers a plethora of diagnostic modes. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-3d-apis ⊗ | Disables client-visible 3D APIs, in particular WebGL and Pepper 3D. This is controlled by policy and is kept separate from the other enable/disable switches to avoid accidentally regressing the policy support for controlling access to these APIs. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-accelerated-2d-canvas ⊗ | Disable gpu-accelerated 2d canvas. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-accelerated-compositing ⊗ | Disables accelerated compositing. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-accelerated-layers ⊗ | Disables the hardware acceleration of 3D CSS and animation. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-accelerated-plugins ⊗ | Disables the hardware acceleration of plugins. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-07. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-accelerated-video ⊗ | Disables GPU accelerated video display. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-accelerated-video-decode ⊗ | Disables hardware acceleration of video decode, where available. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-action-box ⊗ | Disables the Action Box toolbar UI. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-13. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-application-cache ⊗ | Disable the ApplicationCache. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-async-dns ⊗ | Disables the experimental asynchronous DNS client. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-asynchronous-spellchecking ⊗ | Disables asynchronous spellchecking features for all time. Disabling this feature also disables unified spellchecking. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-24. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-audio ⊗ | TODO(scherkus): remove --disable-audio when we have a proper fallback mechanism. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-07. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-audio-fallback ⊗ | Disable automatic fallback from low latency to high latency path. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-04. This switch was listed in src/media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --disable-audio-output-resampler ⊗ | Disable AudioOutputResampler for automatic audio resampling and rebuffering. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-04. This switch was listed in src/media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --disable-auth-negotiate-cname-lookup ⊗ | Disables CNAME lookup of the host when generating the Kerberos SPN for a Negotiate challenge. See HttpAuthHandlerNegotiate::CreateSPN for more background. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-background-mode ⊗ | Disables background mode (background apps will not keep chrome running in the background). ↪ Removed on 2014-06-08. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-background-networking ⊗ | Disable several subsystems which run network requests in the background. This is for use when doing network performance testing to avoid noise in the measurements. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-backing-store-limit ⊗ | Disable limits on the number of backing stores. Can prevent blinking for users with many windows/tabs and lots of memory. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-boot-animation ⊗ | Disables wallpaper boot animation (except of OOBE case). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --disable-breakpad ⊗ | Disables the crash reporting. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash ⊗ | Disables the bundled PPAPI version of Flash. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-by-default ⊗ | Forces to disable PPAPI Flash when a new PPAPI Flash is downloaded. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-client-side-phishing-detection ⊗ | Disables the client-side phishing detection feature. Note that even if client-side phishing detection is enabled, it will only be active if the user has opted in to UMA stats and SafeBrowsing is enabled in the preferences. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-component-update ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-composited-core-animation-plugins[7] ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2013-03-19. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --disable-connect-backup-jobs ⊗ | Disables establishing a backup TCP connection if a specified timeout is exceeded. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-25. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-core-animation-plugins[8] ⊗ | Disables support for Core Animation plugins. This is triggered when accelerated compositing is disabled. See http://crbug.com/122430. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-crl-sets ⊗ | Disables establishing certificate revocation information by downloading a set of CRLs rather than performing on-line checks. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-26. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-custom-jumplist ⊗ | Disables the custom JumpList on Windows 7. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-02. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-data-transfer-items ⊗ | Disables data transfer items. ↪ Removed on 2013-04-13. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-databases ⊗ | Disables HTML5 DB support. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-default-apps ⊗ | Disables installation of default apps on first run. This is used during automated testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-deferred-2d-canvas ⊗ | Disable deferred 2d canvas rendering. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-24. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-desktop-notifications ⊗ | Disables desktop notifications (default enabled on windows). ↪ Removed on 2014-10-08. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-desktop-shortcuts[9] ⊗ | Disables profile desktop shortcuts handling, preventing their creation, modification or removal. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-10. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-device-orientation ⊗ | Disable device orientation events. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-18. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-dhcp-wpad ⊗ | Disables retrieval of PAC URLs from DHCP as per the WPAD standard. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-extensions ⊗ | Disable extensions. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-extensions-file-access-check ⊗ | Disable checking for user opt-in for extensions that want to inject script into file URLs (ie, always allow it). This is used during automated testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-extensions-http-throttling ⊗ | Disable the net::URLRequestThrottlerManager functionality for requests originating from extensions. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-extensions-resource-whitelist ⊗ | Disable mandatory enforcement of web_accessible_resources in extensions. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-17. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-factory-reset[5] ⊗ | Disables reset the device to its factory state in design. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-27. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-file-system ⊗ | Disable FileSystem API. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-flash-3d ⊗ | Disable 3D inside of flapper. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-flash-fullscreen-3d ⊗ | Disable using 3D to present fullscreen flash ↪ Removed on 2013-06-07. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-flash-sandbox ⊗ | Disables the sandbox for the built-in flash player. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-flash-stage3d ⊗ | Disable Stage3D inside of flapper. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-force-compositing-mode ⊗ | This flag disables force compositing mode and prevents it from being enabled via field trials. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-13. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-fullscreen ⊗ | Disable the JavaScript Full Screen API. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-20. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-gdata[5] ⊗ | Disables gdata content provider. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-22. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-geolocation ⊗ | Suppresses support for the Geolocation javascript API. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-gl-multisampling ⊗ | Disable GL multisampling. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-15. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-gpu ⊗ | Disables GPU hardware acceleration. If software renderer is not in place, then the GPU process won't launch. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-gpu-process-prelaunch ⊗ | Do not launch the GPU process shortly after browser process launch. Instead launch it when it is first needed. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-28. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-gpu-sandbox ⊗ | Disable the GPU process sandbox. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-gpu-vsync ⊗ | Stop the GPU from synchronizing on the vsync before presenting. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --disable-gpu-watchdog ⊗ | Disable the thread that crashes the GPU process if it stops responding to messages. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-hang-monitor ⊗ | Suppresses hang monitor dialogs in renderer processes. This may allow slow unload handlers on a page to prevent the tab from closing, but the Task Manager can be used to terminate the offending process in this case. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-html5-camera[5] ⊗ | Disables new WebRTC implementation of user image picker. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-16. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-image-transport-surface ⊗ | Disable the use of an ImageTransportSurface. This means the GPU process will present the rendered page rather than the browser process. ↪ Removed on 2014-01-28. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-improved-download-protection ⊗ | Disables improved SafeBrowsing download protection. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-12. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-in-browser-thumbnailing ⊗ | Disables the in-browser thumbnailing, which is more efficient than the in-renderer thumbnailing, as we can use more information to determine if we need to update thumbnails. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-05. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-infinite-cache ⊗ | Disable the Infinite Cache. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-29. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-internal-flash ⊗ | Disable the internal Flash Player. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-29. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-ip-pooling ⊗ | Disables IP Pooling within the networks stack (SPDY only). When a connection is needed for a domain which shares an IP with an existing connection, attempt to use the existing connection. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-01. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-ipv6 ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cloud_print/gcp20/prototype/gcp20_switches.cc. |
| --disable-java ⊗ | Prevent Java from running. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-javascript ⊗ | Don't execute JavaScript (browser JS like the new tab page still runs). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-javascript-i18n-api ⊗ | Disable JavaScript I18N API. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-11. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-local-storage ⊗ | Disable LocalStorage. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-logging ⊗ | Force logging to be disabled. Logging is enabled by default in debug builds. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-login-animations ⊗ | Avoid doing expensive animations upon login. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --disable-media-history[3] ⊗ | Disable history logging for media elements. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-20. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-media-source ⊗ | Disable Media Source API on <audio>/<video> elements. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-15. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-new-oobe[5] ⊗ | Disables new OOBE/sign in design. ↪ Removed on 2013-02-21. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-new-wallpaper-picker-ui[5] ⊗ | Disables the new wallpaper picker UI. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-09. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-ntp-other-sessions-menu ⊗ | Disables the menu on the NTP for accessing sessions from other devices. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-oobe-animation ⊗ | Avoid doing animations upon oobe. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-17. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --disable-pepper-3d-for-untrusted-use ⊗ | Disables NativeClient's access to Pepper3D. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-10. This switch was listed in src/webkit/plugins/plugin_switches.cc. |
| --disable-plugins ⊗ | Prevent plugins from running. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-popup-blocking ⊗ | Disable pop-up blocking. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-preconnect ⊗ | Disable speculative TCP/IP preconnection. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-print-preview ⊗ | Disables print preview (For testing, and for users who don't like us. :[ ) ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-prompt-on-repost ⊗ | 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. This switch may be used to disable that check. This switch is used during automated testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-remote-fonts ⊗ | Disables remote web font support. SVG font should always work whether this option is specified or not. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-renderer-accessibility ⊗ | Turns off the accessibility in the renderer. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-restore-background-contents ⊗ | Prevents the URLs of BackgroundContents from being remembered and re-launched when the browser restarts. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-08. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-restore-session-state ⊗ | Disables restoring session state (cookies, session storage, etc.) when restoring the browsing session. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-08. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-scaling-in-image-skia-operations ⊗ | Whether or not ImageSkiaOperations methods can scale one of images if they don't have the same scale factor. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-14. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --disable-scripted-print-throttling ⊗ | Disables throttling prints initiated by scripts. ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox ⊗ | Disable the seccomp filter sandbox (seccomp-bpf) (Linux only). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-seccomp-sandbox ⊗ | Disable the seccomp sandbox (Linux only) ↪ Removed on 2013-04-30. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-session-storage ⊗ | Disable session storage. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-shared-workers ⊗ | Disable shared workers. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-site-specific-quirks ⊗ | Disables site-specific tailoring to compatibility issues in WebKit. ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-smooth-scrolling ⊗ | Disable smooth scrolling for testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-software-rasterizer ⊗ | Disables the use of a 3D software rasterizer. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-speech-input ⊗ | Disables speech input. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-07. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-ssl-false-start ⊗ | Disable False Start in SSL and TLS connections. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-26. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync ⊗ | Disables syncing browser data to a Google Account. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-app-notifications ⊗ | Disable syncing app notifications. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-10. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-app-settings ⊗ | Disables syncing of app settings. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-apps ⊗ | Disables syncing of apps. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-autofill ⊗ | Disables syncing of autofill. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-autofill-profile ⊗ | Disables syncing of autofill Profile. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-bookmarks ⊗ | Disables syncing of bookmarks. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-extension-settings ⊗ | Disables syncing extension settings. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-extensions ⊗ | Disables syncing of extensions. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-passwords ⊗ | Disables syncing browser passwords. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-preferences ⊗ | Disables syncing of preferences. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-search-engines ⊗ | Disable syncing custom search engines. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-tabs ⊗ | Disables syncing browser sessions. Will override kEnableSyncTabs. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-themes ⊗ | Disables syncing of themes. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-sync-typed-urls ⊗ | Disables syncing browser typed urls. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-tcva[10] ⊗ | Use NativeTabContentsViewAura instead of the default implementation. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-threaded-animation ⊗ | Disables animation on the compositor thread. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-19. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-threaded-compositing ⊗ | Disable multithreaded GPU compositing of web content. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-tls-channel-id ⊗ | Disables TLS Channel ID extension. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-translate ⊗ | Allows disabling of translate from the command line to assist with automated browser testing (e.g. Selenium/WebDriver). Normal browser users should disable translate with the preference. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/translate/core/common/translate_switches.cc. |
| --disable-web-resources ⊗ | Disables the backend service for web resources. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-web-security ⊗ | Don't enforce the same-origin policy. (Used by people testing their sites.) ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-web-sockets ⊗ | Disable Web Sockets support. ↪ Removed on 2013-04-10. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-webaudio ⊗ | Disable web audio API. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-webgl ⊗ | Disable experimental WebGL support. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-website-settings ⊗ | Disables the website settings UI. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-22. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disable-winsta ⊗ | Disables the alternate window station for the renderer. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-31. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disable-xss-auditor ⊗ | Disables Blink's XSSAuditor. The XSSAuditor mitigates reflective XSS. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --disabled ⊗ | disabled: touch events are disabled. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/events/event_switches.cc. |
| --disk-cache-dir ⊗ | Use a specific disk cache location, rather than one derived from the UserDatadir. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --disk-cache-size ⊗ | Forces the maximum disk space to be used by the disk cache, in bytes. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --dns-log-details ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --dns-prefetch-disable ⊗ | Disables prefetching of DNS information. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --dom-automation ⊗ | Specifies if the |DOMAutomationController| needs to be bound in the renderer. This binding happens on per-frame basis and hence can potentially be a performance bottleneck. One should only enable it when automating dom based tests. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --dump-histograms-on-exit ⊗ | Dump any accumualted histograms to the log when browser terminates (requires logging to be enabled to really do anything). Used by developers and test scripts. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-02. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --dump-profile-graph[11] ⊗ | Dumps dependency information about our profile services into a dot file in the profile directory. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-21. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --echo-ext-path ⊗ | Enables overriding the path for the default echo component extension. Useful for testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-20. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --egl ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --enable-accelerated-compositing-for-overflow-scroll ⊗ | Enables accelerated compositing for overflow scroll. Promotes eligible overflow:scroll elements to layers to enable accelerated scrolling for them. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-13. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-accelerated-filters ⊗ | Enable gpu-accelerated SVG/W3C filters. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-21. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-accelerated-painting ⊗ | Enable hardware accelerated page painting. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-29. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-accelerated-plugins ⊗ | Enables the hardware acceleration of plugins. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-14. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-accessibility-logging ⊗ | Turns on extremely verbose logging of accessibility events. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-17. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-async-dns ⊗ | Enables the experimental asynchronous DNS client. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-audio-mixer ⊗ | Enable browser-side audio mixer. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-04. This switch was listed in src/media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --enable-auth-negotiate-port ⊗ | Enables the inclusion of non-standard ports when generating the Kerberos SPN in response to a Negotiate challenge. See HttpAuthHandlerNegotiate::CreateSPN for more background. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-autofill-feedback ⊗ | With this flag set, Chrome will occasionally prompt the user to volunteer Autofill usage data beyond what is collected by default. This is data that we expect to be helpful for debugging, but that we do not want to send up automatically due to privacy concerns. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-24. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-autologin ⊗ | Enables the pre- and auto-login features. When a user signs in to sync, the browser's cookie jar is pre-filled with GAIA cookies. When the user visits a GAIA login page, an info bar can help the user login. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-21. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-background-loader ⊗ | Enables component extension that initializes background pages of certain hosted applications. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-08. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --enable-benchmarking ⊗ | Enables the benchmarking extensions. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-bezel-touch ⊗ | Enables support for bezel touch. ↪ Removed on 2013-06-14. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-browser-text-subpixel-positioning ⊗ | Let text glyphs have X-positions that aren't snapped to the pixel grid in the browser UI. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-14. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-bundled-ppapi-flash ⊗ | Enables the bundled PPAPI version of Flash. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-29. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-by-default ⊗ | Forces to enable PPAPI Flash when a new PPAPI Flash is downloaded. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-carrier-switching ⊗ | Enables switching between different cellular carriers from the UI. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --enable-client-oauth-signin ⊗ | Enables the new ClientOAuth signin flow for connecting a profile a Google account. When disabled, Chrome will use the ClientLogin flow instead. ↪ Removed on 2012-09-29. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-cloud-policy-service ⊗ | Enables the new cloud policy stack. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-11. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-cloud-print-proxy ⊗ | This applies only when the process type is "service". Enables the Cloud Print Proxy component within the service process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-connect-backup-jobs ⊗ | Enables establishing a backup TCP connection if a specified timeout is exceeded. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-25. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-contacts ⊗ | Enables fetching the user's contacts from Google and showing them in the Chrome OS apps list. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-19. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-crash-reporter ⊗ | Indicates that crash reporting should be enabled. On platforms where helper processes cannot access to files needed to make this decision, this flag is generated internally. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-crxless-web-apps ⊗ | Enables web developers to create apps for Chrome without using crx packages. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-15. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-css-shaders ⊗ | Enables CSS3 custom filters ↪ Removed on 2013-10-15. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-dcheck ⊗ | Enable DCHECKs in release mode. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-11. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-device-motion ⊗ | Enables device motion events. ↪ Removed on 2013-09-20. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-devtools-experiments ⊗ | If true devtools experimental settings are enabled. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-discovery-ntp ⊗ | Enables experimental discovery slots in New Tab page. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-02. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-drive-v2-api ⊗ | Enables Drive v2 API instead of Google Documents List API. ↪ Removed on 2012-09-26. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-easy-off-store-extension-install ⊗ | Enables extensions to be easily installed from sites other than the web store. Without this flag, they can still be installed, but must be manually dragged onto chrome://extensions/. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-13. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-encrypted-media ⊗ | Enables support for encrypted media. Current implementation is incomplete and this flag is used for development and testing. ↪ Removed on 2013-02-01. This switch was listed in src/media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --enable-exclusive-audio[9] ⊗ | Use exclusive mode audio streaming for Windows Vista and higher. Leads to lower latencies for audio streams which uses the AudioParameters::AUDIO_PCM_LOW_LATENCY audio path. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd370844.aspx for details. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --enable-experimental-extension-apis ⊗ | Enables extension APIs that are in development. ↪ Removed on 2013-08-01. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-experimental-webkit-features ⊗ | Enables WebKit features that are in development. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-10. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-expose-for-tabs[7] ⊗ | Enables the tabs expose feature ( http://crbug.com/50307 ). ↪ Removed on 2014-02-15. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-extension-activity-logging ⊗ | Enables logging for extension activity. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-extension-activity-ui ⊗ | Enables the extension activity UI. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-30. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-extension-timeline-api ⊗ | Enables experimental timeline API. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-11. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-extensions-in-action-box ⊗ | Enables to show extensions in an action box. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-13. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-fastback ⊗ | Enables the fastback page cache. ↪ Removed on 2013-04-26. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-file-cookies ⊗ | By default, cookies are not allowed on file://. They are needed for testing, for example page cycler and layout tests. See bug 1157243. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-fixed-layout ⊗ | By default, a page is laid out to fill the entire width of the window. This flag fixes the layout of the page to a default of 980 CSS pixels, or to a specified width and height using --enable-fixed-layout=w,h ↪ Removed on 2013-10-23. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-fixed-position-compositing ⊗ | Enable the creation of compositing layers for fixed position elements. Three options are needed to support four possible scenarios: 1. Default (disabled) 2. Enabled always (to allow dogfooding) 3. Disabled always (to give safety fallback for users) 4. Enabled only if we detect a highDPI display Option #4 may soon be the default, because the feature is needed soon for high DPI, but cannot be used (yet) for low DPI. Options #2 and #3 will override Option #4. ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-frameless-constrained-dialogs ⊗ | Applies a new frameless window style to any dialog based on ConstrainedWindowViews. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-06. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-gesture-tap-highlight ⊗ | Enable Gesture Tap Highlight ↪ Removed on 2014-07-17. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-gpu-benchmarking ⊗ | Enables the GPU benchmarking extension ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cc/base/switches.cc. |
| --enable-gpu-client-logging ⊗ | Enable GPU client logging. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in gpu/command_buffer/client/gpu_switches.cc. |
| --enable-gpu-sandbox ⊗ | Enable the GPU process sandbox (Linux/Chrome OS only for now). ↪ Removed on 2013-05-31. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-gpu-service-logging ⊗ | Turns on GPU logging (debug build only). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --enable-gview[5] ⊗ | Enables the redirection of viewable document requests to the Google Document Viewer. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-04. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-handle-auditing ⊗ | Enumerates and prints a child process' most dangerous handles when it is terminated. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-handle-auditing-all ⊗ | The same as kAuditHandles except all handles are enumerated. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-http-pipelining ⊗ | Enable HTTP pipelining. Attempt to pipeline HTTP connections. Heuristics will try to figure out if pipelining can be used for a given host and request. Without this flag, pipelining will never be used. ↪ Removed on 2013-02-12. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-instant-extended-api ⊗ | Enable Instant extended API. On mobile, this merely enables query extraction, not the rest of the instant-extended functionality. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-16. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-ip-pooling ⊗ | Enables IP Pooling within the networks stack (SPDY only). When a connection is needed for a domain which shares an IP with an existing connection, attempt to use the existing connection. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-01. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-ipc-fuzzing ⊗ | / Enables the IPC fuzzer for reliability testing ↪ Removed on 2013-10-19. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-ipv6 ⊗ | Enables IPv6 support, even if probes suggest that it may not be fully supported. Some probes may require internet connections, and this flag will allow support independent of application testing. This flag overrides "disable-ipv6" which appears elswhere in this file. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-kiosk-mode ⊗ | Enable Kiosk mode for ChromeOS. Note this switch refers to retail mode rather than the kiosk app mode. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --enable-logging ⊗ | Force logging to be enabled. Logging is disabled by default in release builds. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-media-gallery-ui ⊗ | Enables media gallery UI elements and permission management. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-24. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-memory-info ⊗ | Make the values returned to window.performance.memory more granular and more up to date. Without this flag, the memory information is still available, but it is bucketized and updated less frequently. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-13. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-metrics-reporting-for-testing ⊗ | Enables metrics recording and reporting in the browser startup sequence, as if this was an official Chrome build where the user allowed metrics reporting. This is used for testing only. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-22. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-monitor-profile ⊗ | On Windows, converts the page to the currently-installed monitor profile. This does NOT enable color management for images. The source is still assumed to be sRGB. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-08. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-nacl ⊗ | Runs the Native Client inside the renderer process and enables GPU plugin (internally adds lEnableGpuPlugin to the command line). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-nacl-debug ⊗ | Enables debugging via RSP over a socket. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/nacl/common/nacl_switches.cc. |
| --enable-nacl-exception-handling ⊗ | Enables hardware exception handling via debugger process. ↪ Removed on 2013-04-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-nacl-ipc-proxy ⊗ | Enables the Chrome IPC-based Proxy for NaCl. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-09. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-npn ⊗ | Enables NPN and SPDY. In case server supports SPDY, browser will use SPDY. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-06. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-npn-http ⊗ | Enables NPN with HTTP. It means NPN is enabled but SPDY won't be used. HTTP is still used for all requests. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-panels ⊗ | Enables panels (always on-top docked pop-up windows). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-partial-swap ⊗ | Enables partial swaps in the WK compositor on platforms that support it. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-19. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-password-generation ⊗ | Enables password generation when we detect that the user is going through account creation. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/autofill/core/common/autofill_switches.cc. |
| --enable-pepper-testing ⊗ | Enables the testing interface for PPAPI. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-03. This switch was listed in src/webkit/plugins/plugin_switches.cc. |
| --enable-per-tile-painting ⊗ | Enable per-tile page painting. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-19. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-pinch ⊗ | Enables compositor-accelerated touch-screen pinch gestures. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-pnacl ⊗ | Enables the usage of Portable Native Client. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-27. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-preparsed-js-caching ⊗ | Enable caching of pre-parsed JS script data. See http://crbug.com/32407. ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-print-preview[12] ⊗ | Enables print preview. Chromium normally does not have the PDF viewer, required for print preview. pdf.dll or libpdf.so should be present in primary directory of Chromium. For local builds it's usually out/Debug or out/Release. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-24. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-privileged-webgl-extensions ⊗ | Enable privileged WebGL extensions; without this switch such extensions are available only to Chrome extensions. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-21. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-profile-desktop-shortcuts ⊗ | Enables the Windows profile desktop shortcuts feature. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-profiling ⊗ | Enables tracking of tasks in profiler for viewing via about:profiler. To predominantly disable tracking (profiling), use the command line switch: --enable-profiling=0 Some tracking will still take place at startup, but it will be turned off during chrome_browser_main. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-prune-gpu-command-buffers ⊗ | Aggressively free GPU command buffers belonging to hidden tabs. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-11. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-renderer-side-mixing[13] ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2013-01-24. This switch was listed in src/media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --enable-request-tablet-site ⊗ | Enables request of tablet site (via user agent override). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --enable-resource-content-settings ⊗ | Enables content settings based on host *and* plug-in in the user preferences. ↪ Removed on 2013-12-11. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-restore-session-state ⊗ | Enables experimental features of better session restore (backing up sessionStorage on disk). See also kDisableRestoreSessionState which disables the less exprimental features which are on by default. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-sandbox-logging ⊗ | Cause the OS X sandbox write to syslog every time an access to a resource is denied by the sandbox. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-script-badges ⊗ | Enables extension scripts badges in the location bar. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-13. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-scripted-speech ⊗ | Enables scripted speech api. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-02. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-sdch ⊗ | Controls the support for SDCH filtering (dictionary based expansion of content). By default SDCH filtering is enabled. To disable SDCH filtering, use "--enable-sdch=0" as command line argument. SDCH is currently only supported server-side for searches on google.com. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-01. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-seccomp-sandbox ⊗ | Enable the seccomp sandbox (Linux only) ↪ Removed on 2013-05-02. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-smooth-scrolling ⊗ | On platforms that support it, enables smooth scroll animation. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-software-compositing-gl-adapter ⊗ | Force the compositor to use its software implementation instead of GL. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-01. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-spdy-credential-frames ⊗ | Enable SPDY CREDENTIAL frame support. This is a temporary testing flag. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-29. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-spdy3 ⊗ | Enable SPDY/3. This is a temporary testing flag. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-21. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-ssl-cached-info ⊗ | Enables TLS cached info extension. ↪ Removed on 2014-01-11. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-stacked-tab-strip ⊗ | Enables the stacked tabstrip. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-30. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-static-ip-config ⊗ | Enables static ip configuration. This flag should be removed when it's on by default. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-04. This switch was listed in /chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --enable-stats-table ⊗ | Enables StatsTable, logging statistics to a global named shared memory table. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-strict-site-isolation ⊗ | Experimentally ensures that each renderer process: 1) Only handles rendering for pages from a single site, apart from iframes. (Note that a page can reference content from multiple origins due to images, JavaScript files, etc. Cross-site iframes are also loaded in-process.) 2) Only has authority to see or use cookies for the page's top-level origin. (So if a.com iframes b.com, the b.com network request will be sent without cookies.) This is expected to break compatibility with many pages for now. Unlike the --site-per-process flag, this allows cross-site iframes, but it blocks all cookies on cross-site requests. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-suggestions-ntp ⊗ | Enables experimental suggestions pane in New Tab page. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-17. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-sync-credential-caching[9] ⊗ | Enables sync credential caching on Windows 8. See chrome/browser/sync/credential_cache_service_win.h. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-30. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-tab-browser-dragging ⊗ | Enables tab dragging to create a real browser. ↪ Removed on 2014-01-15. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-tab-groups-context-menu ⊗ | Enables context menu for selecting groups of tabs. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-08. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-tcp-fastopen ⊗ | Enable use of experimental TCP sockets API for sending data in the SYN packet. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-text-services-framework ⊗ | Enable Text Service Framework(TSF) for text inputting instead of IMM32. This flag is ignored on Metro environment. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-03. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-threaded-compositing ⊗ | Enabled threaded compositing for layout tests. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-touch-calibration ⊗ | Enable touch screen calibration. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-24. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-touch-calibration-x ⊗ | Enable support for touch event calibration in x direction. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-24. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-touch-events ⊗ | Enable support for touch events. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-22. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-ui-release-front-surface ⊗ | Enables UI releasing handle to front surface for background tabs on platforms that support it. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-17. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-unsupported-bluetooth-devices[5] ⊗ | Enables discovery and interaction with Bluetooth devices that may not be supported by ChromeOS. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-06. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-viewport ⊗ | Enables the use of the @viewport CSS rule, which allows pages to control aspects of their own layout. This also turns on touch-screen pinch gestures. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-views-textfield ⊗ | Enables the Views textfield on Windows. ↪ Removed on 2013-11-15. This switch was listed in /ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-visual-word-movement ⊗ | Enables moving cursor by word in visual order. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-watchdog ⊗ | Spawns threads to watch for excessive delays in specified message loops. User should set breakpoints on Alarm() to examine problematic thread. Usage: -enable-watchdog=[ui][io] Order of the listed sub-arguments does not matter. ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-web-media-player-ms ⊗ | Enables using WebMediaPlayerMS for src of <audio>/<video> derived from media stream. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-11. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-webaudio[3] ⊗ | Enable web audio API. ↪ Removed on 2013-06-14. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-webaudio-input ⊗ | Enable live audio input with getUserMedia() and the Web Audio API. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-09. This switch was listed in src/media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --enable-webgl[3] ⊗ | WebGL is disabled by default on Android. ↪ Removed on 2013-08-02. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enable-webkit-text-subpixel-positioning ⊗ | Enable text glyphs to have X-positions that aren't snapped to the pixel grid in webkit renderers. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-14. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --enable-websocket-over-spdy ⊗ | Uses WebSocket over SPDY. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-08. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --enable-webview-synchronous-apis[3] ⊗ | Set to enable compatibility with legacy WebView synchronous APIs. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-04. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --enabled ⊗ | enabled: touch events always enabled. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/events/event_switches.cc. |
| --enterprise-enrollment-initial-modulus ⊗ | Power of the power-of-2 initial modulus that will be used by the auto-enrollment client. E.g. "4" means the modulus will be 2^4 = 16. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --enterprise-enrollment-modulus-limit ⊗ | Power of the power-of-2 maximum modulus that will be used by the auto-enrollment client. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --event-page-idle-time ⊗ | The time in seconds that an extension event page can be idle before it is shut down. ↪ Removed on 2013-11-05. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --event-page-unloading-time ⊗ | The time in seconds that an extension event page has between being notified of its impending unload and that unload happening. ↪ Removed on 2013-11-05. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --experimental-location-features ⊗ | Enables experimental features for the geolocation API. Current features: - CoreLocation support for Mac OS X 10.6 ↪ Removed on 2013-08-14. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --experimental-spellchecker-features ⊗ | Enables experimental features for Spellchecker. Right now, the first experimental feature is auto spell correct, which corrects words which are misspelled by typing the word with two consecutive letters swapped. The features that will be added next are: 1 - Allow multiple spellcheckers to work simultaneously. 2 - Allow automatic detection of spell check language. TODO(sidchat): Implement the above features to work under this flag. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-24. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --explicitly-allowed-ports ⊗ | Explicitly allows additional ports using a comma-separated list of port numbers. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --extension-process ⊗ | Marks a renderer as extension process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in extensions/common/switches.cc. |
| --extensions-update-frequency ⊗ | Frequency in seconds for Extensions auto-update. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --external-autofill-popup ⊗ | Should we use an external Autofill popup? Default is no. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-24. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --extra-plugin-dir ⊗ | Load NPAPI plugins from the specified directory. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --feedback-server ⊗ | Alternative feedback server to use when submitting user feedback ↪ Removed on 2014-05-09. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --file-descriptor-limit ⊗ | The file descriptor limit is set to the value of this switch, subject to the OS hard limits. Useful for testing that file descriptor exhaustion is handled gracefully. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-30. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --filemgr-ext-path[11] ⊗ | Enables overriding the path of file manager extension. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --first-boot ⊗ | Passed to Chrome on first boot. Not passed on restart after sign out. ↪ Removed on 2013-08-12. This switch was listed in /chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --first-run ⊗ | Displays the First Run experience when the browser is started, regardless of whether or not it's actually the first run. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-03. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --flag-switches-begin ⊗ | These two flags are added around the switches about:flags adds to the command line. This is useful to see which switches were added by about:flags on about:version. They don't have any effect. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --flag-switches-end ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --force-compositing-mode ⊗ | Enable force_compositing_mode in layout tests. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-11. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --force-desktop[9] ⊗ | For the DelegateExecute verb handler to launch Chrome in desktop mode on Windows 8 and higher. Used when relaunching metro Chrome. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --force-device-scale-factor ⊗ | Overrides the device scale factor for the browser UI and the contents. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gfx/switches.cc. |
| --force-fieldtrials ⊗ | This option can be used to force field trials when testing changes locally. The argument is a list of name and value pairs, separated by slashes. If a trial name is prefixed with an asterisk, that trial will start activated. For example, the following argument defines two trials, with the second one activated: "GoogleNow/Enable/*MaterialDesignNTP/Default/" This option is also used by the browser to send the list of trials to renderers, using the same format. See FieldTrialList::CreateTrialsFromString() in field_trial.h for details. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --force-immersive[9] ⊗ | For the DelegateExecute verb handler to launch Chrome in metro mode on Windows 8 and higher. Used when relaunching metro Chrome. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --force-renderer-accessibility ⊗ | Force renderer accessibility to be on instead of enabling it on demand when a screen reader is detected. The disable-renderer-accessibility switch overrides this if present. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --force_discrete ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-06-15. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --force_integrated ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-06-15. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --full-memory-crash-report ⊗ | Generates full memory crash dump. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --gaia-profile-info ⊗ | Enables using GAIA information to populate profile name and icon. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-24. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --google-search-domain-check-url ⊗ | Specifies an alternate URL to use for retrieving the search domain for Google. Useful for testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-01. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-device-id ⊗ | Passes gpu device_id from browser process to GPU process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-driver-vendor ⊗ | Passes gpu driver_vendor from browser process to GPU process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-driver-version ⊗ | Passes gpu driver_version from browser process to GPU process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-launcher ⊗ | Extra command line options for launching the GPU process (normally used for debugging). Use like renderer-cmd-prefix. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-no-context-lost ⊗ | Inform Chrome that a GPU context will not be lost in power saving mode, screen saving mode, etc. Note that this flag does not ensure that a GPU context will never be lost in any situations, say, a GPU reset. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-process ⊗ | Makes this process a GPU sub-process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-startup-dialog ⊗ | Causes the GPU process to display a dialog on launch. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-swap-delay ⊗ | Add a delay in milliseconds to the gpu swap buffer completion signal. Simulates a slow GPU. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-12. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-switching ⊗ | Overwrite the default GPU automatic switching behavior to force on integrated GPU or discrete GPU. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-15. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --gpu-vendor-id ⊗ | Passes gpu vendor_id from browser process to GPU process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --graphics-mode[3] ⊗ | Omnibus flag setting an Android graphics mode. May be: "basic" (untiled software path) "compositor" (hardware-accelerated compositing), ↪ Removed on 2012-10-02. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --gssapi-library-name ⊗ | Specifies a custom name for the GSSAPI library to load. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --guest-renderer ⊗ | Used in conjunction with kRendererProcess. This causes the process to run as a guest renderer instead of a regular renderer. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-28. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --h ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cloud_print/gcp20/prototype/gcp20_switches.cc. |
| --help ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cloud_print/gcp20/prototype/gcp20_switches.cc. |
| --hide-icons ⊗ | Makes Windows happy by allowing it to show "Enable access to this program" checkbox in Add/Remove Programs->Set Program Access and Defaults. This only shows an error box because the only way to hide Chrome is by uninstalling it. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --highlight-missing-scaled-resources ⊗ | If a resource is requested at a scale factor at which it is not available or the resource is the incorrect size (based on the size of the 1x resource), generates the missing resource and applies a red mask to the generated resource. Resources for which hidpi is not supported because of software reasons will show up pixelated. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-07. This switch was listed in ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --homepage ⊗ | Specifies which page will be displayed in newly-opened tabs. We need this for testing purposes so that the UI tests don't depend on what comes up for http://google.com. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --host-resolver-parallelism ⊗ | The maximum number of concurrent host resolve requests (i.e. DNS) to allow (not counting backup attempts which would also consume threads). --host-resolver-retry-attempts must be set to zero for this to be exact. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --host-resolver-retry-attempts ⊗ | The maximum number of retry attempts to resolve the host. Set this to zero to disable host resolver retry attempts. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --host-resolver-rules ⊗ | These mappings only apply to the host resolver. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --host-rules ⊗ | Comma-separated list of rules that control how hostnames are mapped. 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". "MAP test.com [::1]:77 --> Forces "test.com" to resolve to IPv6 loopback. Will also force the port of the resulting socket address to be 77. "MAP * baz, EXCLUDE www.google.com" --> Remaps everything to "baz", except for "www.google.com". These mappings apply to the endpoint host in a net::URLRequest (the TCP connect and host resolver in a direct connection, and the CONNECT in an http proxy connection, and the endpoint host in a SOCKS proxy connection). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --hsts-hosts ⊗ | Takes the JSON-formatted HSTS specification and loads it as if it were a preloaded HSTS entry. Takes precedence over both website-specified rules and built-in rules. The JSON format is the same as that persisted in <profile_dir>/Default/TransportSecurity ↪ Removed on 2013-05-30. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ignore-certificate-errors ⊗ | Ignores certificate-related errors. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --ignore-gpu-blacklist ⊗ | Ignores GPU blacklist. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --import ⊗ | Performs importing from another browser. The value associated with this setting encodes the target browser and what items to import. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-24. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --import-from-file ⊗ | Performs bookmark importing from an HTML file. The value associated with this setting encodes the file path. It may be used jointly with kImport. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-24. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --in-process-gpu ⊗ | Run the GPU process as a thread in the browser process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --in-process-plugins ⊗ | Runs plugins inside the renderer process ↪ Removed on 2013-12-27. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --in-process-webgl ⊗ | Runs WebGL inside the renderer process. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-21. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --incognito ⊗ | Causes the browser to launch directly in incognito mode. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --install-from-webstore ⊗ | Causes Chrome to attempt to get metadata from the webstore for the app/extension ID given, and then prompt the user to download and install it. ↪ Removed on 2014-10-02. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --instant-url ⊗ | URL to use for instant. If specified this overrides the url from the TemplateURL. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-04. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --js-flags ⊗ | Specifies the flags passed to JS engine ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --keep-alive-for-test ⊗ | Used for testing - keeps browser alive after last browser window closes. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --keychain-reauthorize[7] ⊗ | Performs Keychain reauthorization from the command line on behalf of a special Keychain reauthorization stub executable. Used during auto-update. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-28. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --kiosk ⊗ | Enable Kiosk mode. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --kiosk-mode-screensaver-path ⊗ | Path for the screensaver used in Kiosk mode ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --kiosk-printing ⊗ | Print automatically in kiosk mode. |kKioskMode| must be set as well. See http://crbug.com/31395. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --lang ⊗ | The language file that we want to try to open. Of the form language[-country] where language is the 2 letter code from ISO-639. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --learning ⊗ | Speculative resource prefetching will only learn about resources that need to be prefetched but will not prefetch them. ↪ Removed on 2014-01-06. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --load-cloud-policy-on-signin ⊗ | If present, cloud policy will be loaded and applied once the user is signed in to the browser. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-30. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --load-component-extension ⊗ | Comma-separated list of directories with component extensions to load. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --load-extension ⊗ | Loads an extension from the specified directory. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --load-opencryptoki ⊗ | Loads the opencryptoki library into NSS at startup. This is only needed temporarily for developers who need to work on WiFi/VPN certificate code. TODO(gspencer): Remove this switch once cryptohomed work is finished: http://crosbug.com/12295 and http://crosbug.com/12304 ↪ Removed on 2013-05-07. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --load-plugin ⊗ | Load an NPAPI plugin from the specified path. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --locale_pak ⊗ | Load the locale resources from the given path. When running on Mac/Unix the path should point to a locale.pak file. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-20. This switch was listed in ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --log-level ⊗ | Sets the minimum log level. Valid values are from 0 to 3: INFO = 0, WARNING = 1, LOG_ERROR = 2, LOG_FATAL = 3. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --log-net-log ⊗ | Enables saving net log events to a file and sets the file name to use. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --log-plugin-messages ⊗ | Make plugin processes log their sent and received messages to VLOG(1). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --login-manager ⊗ | Enables Chrome-as-a-login-manager behavior. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --login-password ⊗ | Specifies a password to be used to login (along with login-user). ↪ Removed on 2014-07-03. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --login-profile ⊗ | Specifies the profile to use once a chromeos user is logged in. This parameter is ignored if user goes through login screen since user_id hash defines which profile directory to use. In case of browser restart within active session this parameter is used to pass user_id hash for primary user. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --login-screen ⊗ | Allows to override the first login screen. The value should be the name of the first login screen to show (see chrome/browser/chromeos/login/login_wizard_view.cc for actual names). Ignored if kLoginManager is not specified. TODO(avayvod): Remove when the switch is no longer needed for testing. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-29. This switch was listed in src/chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --login-screen-size ⊗ | Controls the initial login screen size. Pass width,height. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-29. This switch was listed in src/chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --login-user ⊗ | Specifies the user which is already logged in. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --make-default-browser ⊗ | Makes Chrome default browser ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --managed ⊗ | Starts the browser in managed mode. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-18. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --max-spdy-concurrent-streams ⊗ | Sets the maximum concurrent streams over a SPDY session. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-01. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --max-spdy-sessions-per-domain ⊗ | Sets the maximum SPDY sessions per domain. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-04. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --max-untiled-layer-height ⊗ | Sets the width and height above which a composited layer will get tiled. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --max-untiled-layer-width ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --media-cache-size ⊗ | Forces the maximum disk space to be used by the media cache, in bytes. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --media-player-in-render-process[3] ⊗ | Whether to run media elements in the renderer process. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-06. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --memory-profile ⊗ | Enables dynamic loading of the Memory Profiler DLL, which will trace all memory allocations during the run. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-20. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --message-loop-histogrammer ⊗ | Enables histograming of tasks served by MessageLoop. See about:histograms/Loop for results, which show frequency of messages on each thread, including APC count, object signalling count, etc. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --metrics-recording-only ⊗ | Enables the recording of metrics reports but disables reporting. In contrast to kDisableMetrics, this executes all the code that a normal client would use for reporting, except the report is dropped rather than sent to the server. This is useful for finding issues in the metrics code during UI and performance tests. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --mock ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --multi-profiles ⊗ | Enables multiprofile Chrome. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-21. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --nacl-broker ⊗ | Value for --type that causes the process to run as a NativeClient broker (used for launching NaCl loader processes on 64-bit Windows). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/nacl/common/nacl_switches.cc. |
| --nacl-gdb ⊗ | Native Client GDB debugger that will be launched automatically when needed. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/nacl/common/nacl_switches.cc. |
| --nacl-gdb-script ⊗ | GDB script to pass to the nacl-gdb debugger at startup. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/nacl/common/nacl_switches.cc. |
| --nacl-loader ⊗ | Value for --type that causes the process to run as a NativeClient loader for SFI mode. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/nacl/common/nacl_switches.cc. |
| --nacl-loader-cmd-prefix ⊗ | On POSIX only: the contents of this flag are prepended to the nacl-loader command line. Useful values might be "valgrind" or "xterm -e gdb --args". ↪ Removed on 2014-03-09. This switch was listed in components/nacl/common/nacl_switches.cc. |
| --net-log-level ⊗ | Sets the base logging level for the net log. Log 0 logs the most data. Intended primarily for use with --log-net-log. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --network-country-iso[3] ⊗ | The telephony region (ISO country code) to use in phone number detection. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --new-window ⊗ | Launches URL in new browser window. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-default-browser-check ⊗ | Disables the default browser check. Useful for UI/browser tests where we want to avoid having the default browser info-bar displayed. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-discard-tabs ⊗ | Disables tab discard in low memory conditions, a feature which silently closes inactive tabs to free memory and to attempt to avoid the kernel's out-of-memory process killer. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-23. This switch was listed in /chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --no-displaying-insecure-content ⊗ | By default, an https page can load images, fonts or frames from an http page. This switch overrides this to block this lesser mixed-content problem. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-events ⊗ | Don't record/playback events when using record & playback. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-experiments ⊗ | Disables all experiments set on about:flags. Does not disable about:flags itself. Useful if an experiment makes chrome crash at startup: One can start chrome with --no-experiments, disable the problematic lab at about:flags and then restart chrome without this switch again. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-first-run ⊗ | Skip First Run tasks, whether or not it's actually the First Run. Overridden by kForceFirstRun. This does not drop the First Run sentinel and thus doesn't prevent first run from occuring the next time chrome is launched without this flag. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-js-randomness ⊗ | Support a separate switch that enables the v8 playback extension. The extension causes javascript calls to Date.now() and Math.random() to return consistent values, such that subsequent loads of the same page will result in consistent js-generated data and XHR requests. Pages may still be able to generate inconsistent data from plugins. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-20. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-managed ⊗ | Starts the browser outside of managed mode. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-18. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-message-box ⊗ | Disable ui::MessageBox. This is useful when running as part of scripts that do not have a user interface. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --no-network-profile-warning ⊗ | Whether or not the browser should warn if the profile is on a network share. This flag is only relevant for Windows currently. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-pings ⊗ | Don't send hyperlink auditing pings ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-proxy-server ⊗ | Don't use a proxy server, always make direct connections. Overrides any other proxy server flags that are passed. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-referrers ⊗ | Don't send HTTP-Referer headers. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --no-sandbox ⊗ | Disables the sandbox for all process types that are normally sandboxed. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --no-service-autorun ⊗ | Disables the service process from adding itself as an autorun process. This does not delete existing autorun registrations, it just prevents the service from registering a new one. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --no-startup-window ⊗ | Does not automatically open a browser window on startup (used when launching Chrome for the purpose of hosting background apps). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --noerrdialogs ⊗ | Suppresses all error dialogs when present. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --notify-cp-token-expired ⊗ | Shows a desktop notification that the cloud print token has expired and that user needs to re-authenticate. ↪ Removed on 2013-02-05. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --num-pac-threads ⊗ | Specifies the maximum number of threads to use for running the Proxy Autoconfig (PAC) script. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --old-checkbox-style ⊗ | Disables the new appearance for checkboxes and radio buttons. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-08. This switch was listed in src/ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --omnibox-history-quick-provider-new-scoring ⊗ | Controls whether to use the fancy new scoring (takes into account word breaks, does better balancing of topicality, recency, etc.) for HistoryQuickProvider. ↪ Removed on 2013-05-03. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --omnibox-history-quick-provider-reorder-for-inlining ⊗ | Controls whether HistoryQuickProvider is allowed to reorder results according to inlineability in order to more aggressively assign/keep high relevance scores. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-14. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --omnibox-inline-history-quick-provider-allowed ⊗ | Controls whether the omnibox's HistoryQuickProvider is allowed to inline suggestions. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-13. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --only-block-setting-third-party-cookies ⊗ | When the option to block third-party cookies is enabled, only block third-party cookies from being set. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-17. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --oobe-skip-postlogin ⊗ | Skips all other OOBE pages after user login. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --organic ⊗ | Simulates an organic Chrome install. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-17. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --osmesa ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --pack-extension ⊗ | Packages an extension to a .crx installable file from a given directory. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --pack-extension-key ⊗ | Optional PEM private key to use in signing packaged .crx. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --parent-profile ⊗ | Specifies the path to the user data folder for the parent profile. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --password-store[14] ⊗ | Specifies which password store to use (detect, default, gnome, kwallet). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --performance-monitor-gathering ⊗ | Launches PerformanceMonitor at startup, which will gather statistics about Chrome's CPU and memory usage, page load times, startup times, and network usage, and will also store information about events which may be of interest, such as extension-related occurrences and crashes. Optionally, this may be run with an integer value representing the interval between the timed metric gatherings, measured in seconds (if invalid or not provided, the default interval is used). ↪ Removed on 2014-09-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --playback-mode ⊗ | Read previously recorded data from the cache. Only cached data is read. See kRecordMode. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --plugin ⊗ | Causes the process to run as a plugin subprocess. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --plugin-launcher ⊗ | Specifies a command that should be used to launch the plugin process. Useful for running the plugin process through purify or quantify. Ex: --plugin-launcher="path\to\purify /Run=yes" ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --plugin-path ⊗ | Tells the plugin process the path of the plugin to load ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --plugin-startup-dialog ⊗ | Causes the plugin process to display a dialog on launch. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --pnacl-dir ⊗ | Overrides the path to the location that PNaCl is installed. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-09. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi ⊗ | Argument to the process type that indicates a PPAPI plugin process type. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-broker ⊗ | Argument to the process type that indicates a PPAPI broker process type. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-flash-args ⊗ | "Command-line" arguments for the PPAPI Flash; used for debugging options. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-flash-field-trial ⊗ | Controls the PPAPI Flash field trial. Valid values are defined below. If an unknown value is supplied on the command line, the switch is ignored. TODO(yzshen): Remove this flag when the field trial is over. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-17. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-flash-in-process ⊗ | Forces the PPAPI version of Flash (if it's being used) to run in the renderer process rather than in a separate plugin process. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-17. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-flash-path ⊗ | Use the PPAPI (Pepper) Flash found at the given path. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-flash-version ⊗ | Report the given version for the PPAPI (Pepper) Flash. The version should be numbers separated by '.'s (e.g., "12.3.456.78"). If not specified, it defaults to "10.2.999.999". ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-out-of-process ⊗ | Runs PPAPI (Pepper) plugins out-of-process. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-03. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-plugin-launcher ⊗ | Like kPluginLauncher for PPAPI plugins. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --ppapi-startup-dialog ⊗ | Causes the PPAPI sub process to display a dialog on launch. Be sure to use --no-sandbox as well or the sandbox won't allow the dialog to display. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --prefetch_only ⊗ | prefetch_only: No prerendering, but enables prefetching. ↪ Removed on 2013-12-13. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --prerender ⊗ | Controls speculative prerendering of pages, and content prefetching. Both are dispatched from <link rel=prefetch href=...> elements. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --prerender-from-omnibox ⊗ | Triggers prerendering of pages from suggestions in the omnibox. Only has an effect when Instant is either disabled or restricted to search, and when prerender is enabled. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --print-raster[9] ⊗ | Enable conversion from vector to raster for any page. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-07. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --process-per-site ⊗ | Runs a single process for each site (i.e., group of pages from the same registered domain) the user visits. We default to using a renderer process for each site instance (i.e., group of pages from the same registered domain with script connections to each other). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --process-per-tab ⊗ | Runs each set of script-connected tabs (i.e., a BrowsingInstance) in its own renderer process. We default to using a renderer process for each site instance (i.e., group of pages from the same registered domain with script connections to each other). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --product-version ⊗ | Outputs the product version information and quit. Used as an internal api to detect the installed version of Chrome on Linux. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --profile-directory ⊗ | Selects directory of profile to associate with the first browser launched. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --profiling-at-start ⊗ | Starts the sampling based profiler for the browser process at startup. This will only work if chrome has been built with the gyp variable profiling=1. The output will go to the value of kProfilingFile. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --profiling-file ⊗ | Specifies a location for profiling output. This will only work if chrome has been built with the gyp variable profiling=1. {pid} if present will be replaced by the pid of the process. {count} if present will be incremented each time a profile is generated for this process. The default is chrome-profile-{pid}. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --profiling-flush ⊗ | Controls whether profile data is periodically flushed to a file. Normally the data gets written on exit but cases exist where chrome doesn't exit cleanly (especially when using single-process). A time in seconds can be specified. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --profiling-output-file ⊗ | Specifies a path for the output of task-level profiling which can be loaded and viewed in about:profiler. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --promo-server-url ⊗ | Specifies a custom URL for fetching NTP promo data. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --protector ⊗ | Enables the Protector feature. ↪ Removed on 2012-12-14. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --proxy-auto-detect ⊗ | Forces proxy auto-detection. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --proxy-bypass-list ⊗ | Specifies a list of hosts for whom we bypass proxy settings and use direct connections. Ignored if --proxy-auto-detect or --no-proxy-server are also specified. This is a comma-separated list of bypass rules. See: "net/proxy/proxy_bypass_rules.h" for the format of these rules. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --proxy-pac-url ⊗ | Uses the pac script at the given URL ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --proxy-server ⊗ | Uses a specified proxy server, overrides system settings. This switch only affects HTTP and HTTPS requests. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --purge-memory-button ⊗ | Adds a "Purge memory" button to the Task Manager, which tries to dump as much memory as possible. This is mostly useful for testing how well the MemoryPurger functionality works. NOTE: This is only implemented for Views. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-11. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --record-mode ⊗ | Chrome supports a playback and record mode. Record mode saves *everything* to the cache. Playback mode reads data exclusively from the cache. This allows us to record a session into the cache and then replay it at will. See also kPlaybackMode. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --record-stats ⊗ | Capture resource consumption information through page cycling and output the data to the specified file. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-26. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --reduce-gpu-sandbox ⊗ | Reduces the GPU process sandbox to be less strict. ↪ Removed on 2013-12-19. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --register-pepper-plugins ⊗ | Register Pepper plugins (see pepper_plugin_list.cc for its format). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --relaunch-shortcut[9] ⊗ | Relaunches metro Chrome on Windows 8 and higher using a given shortcut. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --relauncher[7] ⊗ | A process type (switches::kProcessType) that relaunches the browser. See chrome/browser/mac/relauncher.h. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --reload-killed-tabs ⊗ | Reloads pages that have been killed when they are next focused by the user. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-14. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --remote-debugging-frontend ⊗ | Uses custom front-end URL for the remote debugging. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-12. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --remote-debugging-port ⊗ | Enables remote debug over HTTP on the specified port. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --renderer ⊗ | Causes the process to run as renderer instead of as browser. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --renderer-assert-test ⊗ | Causes the renderer process to throw an assertion on launch. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --renderer-cmd-prefix ⊗ | On POSIX only: the contents of this flag are prepended to the renderer command line. Useful values might be "valgrind" or "xterm -e gdb --args". ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --renderer-print-preview ⊗ | Enables print preview in the renderer. This flag is generated internally by Chrome and does nothing when directly passed to the browser. ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --renderer-process-limit ⊗ | Overrides the default/calculated limit to the number of renderer processes. Very high values for this setting can lead to high memory/resource usage or instability. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --renderer-startup-dialog ⊗ | Causes the renderer process to display a dialog on launch. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --reset-variation-state ⊗ | Forces a reset of the one-time-randomized FieldTrials on this client, also known as the Chrome Variations state. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-04. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --restore-last-session ⊗ | Indicates the last session should be restored on startup. This overrides the preferences value and is primarily intended for testing. The value of this switch is the number of tabs to wait until loaded before 'load completed' is sent to the ui_test. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --safebrowsing-disable-auto-update ⊗ | If present, safebrowsing only performs update when SafeBrowsingProtocolManager::ForceScheduleNextUpdate() is explicitly called. This is used for testing only. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --safebrowsing-disable-download-protection ⊗ | TODO(lzheng): Remove this flag once the feature works fine (http://crbug.com/74848). Disables safebrowsing feature that checks download url and downloads content's hash to make sure the content are not malicious. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --safebrowsing-url-prefix ⊗ | URL prefix used by safebrowsing to fetch hash, download data and report malware. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-12. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --save-page-as-mhtml ⊗ | Disable saving pages as HTML-only, disable saving pages as HTML Complete (with a directory of sub-resources). Enable only saving pages as MHTML. See http://crbug.com/120416 for how to remove this switch. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --scroll-pixels[15] ⊗ | Specify the amount the trackpad should scroll by. ↪ Removed on 2012-11-14. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --search-in-omnibox-hint ⊗ | Enables the showing of an info-bar instructing user they can search directly from the omnibox. ↪ Removed on 2013-06-04. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --service ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cloud_print/service/service_switches.cc. |
| --service-account-lsid ⊗ | The LSID of the account to use for the service process. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-05. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --set-token ⊗ | Sets a token in the token service, for testing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --show-app-list ⊗ | If true the app list will be shown. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --show-autofill-type-predictions ⊗ | Annotates forms with Autofill field type predictions. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-09. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --show-component-extension-options ⊗ | Makes component extensions appear in chrome://settings/extensions. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-19. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --show-composited-layer-borders ⊗ | Renders a border around compositor layers to help debug and study layer compositing. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cc/base/switches.cc. |
| --show-composited-layer-tree ⊗ | Draws a textual dump of the compositor layer tree to help debug and study layer compositing. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-04. This switch was listed in src/cc/base/switches.cc. |
| --show-fps-counter ⊗ | Draws a heads-up-display showing Frames Per Second as well as GPU memory usage. If you also use --vmodule="head*=1" then FPS will also be output to the console log. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cc/base/switches.cc. |
| --show-icons ⊗ | See kHideIcons. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --show-launcher-alignment-menu ⊗ | If true the alignment of the launcher can be changed. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-29. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --show-paint-rects ⊗ | Visibly render a border around paint rects in the web page to help debug and study painting behavior. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --show-volume-status[5] ⊗ | Show volume controls in status bar on ChromeOS. ↪ Removed on 2012-10-15. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --silent-dump-on-dcheck ⊗ | Changes the DCHECKS to dump memory and continue instead of displaying error dialog. This is valid only in Release mode when gyp dcheck_always_on=1. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-17. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --simulate-touch-screen-with-mouse ⊗ | Map mouse input events into touch gesture events. Useful for debugging touch gestures without needing a touchscreen. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --simulate-upgrade ⊗ | Simulates an update being available. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --single-process ⊗ | Runs the renderer and plugins in the same process as the browser ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --skip-gpu-data-loading ⊗ | Skip gpu info collection, blacklist loading, and blacklist auto-update scheduling at browser startup time. Therefore, all GPU features are available, and about:gpu page shows empty content. The switch is intended only for layout tests. TODO(gab): Get rid of this switch entirely. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --skip-oauth-login[5] ⊗ | Skips OAuth part of ChromeOS login process. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-15. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --socket-reuse-policy ⊗ | Socket reuse policy. The value should be of type enum ClientSocketReusePolicy. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-30. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --speculative-resource-prefetching ⊗ | Speculative resource prefetching. ↪ Removed on 2014-01-06. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --speech-service-key ⊗ | Specifies the request key for the continuous speech recognition webservice. ↪ Removed on 2014-03-08. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --ssl-version-max ⊗ | Specifies the maximum SSL/TLS version ("ssl3", "tls1", "tls1.1", or "tls1.2"). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --ssl-version-min ⊗ | Specifies the minimum SSL/TLS version ("ssl3", "tls1", "tls1.1", or "tls1.2"). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --start-maximized ⊗ | Starts the browser maximized, regardless of any previous settings. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --stub-cros-settings ⊗ | Indicates that a stub implementation of CrosSettings that stores settings in memory without signing should be used, treating current user as the owner. This option is for testing the chromeos build of chrome on the desktop only. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chromeos/chromeos_switches.cc. |
| --suggestion-ntp-filter-width ⊗ | Controls the width of time-of-day filters on the 'suggested' ntp page, in minutes. ↪ Removed on 2014-07-09. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --suggestion-ntp-gaussian-filter ⊗ | Enables a normal distribution dropoff to the relevancy of visits with respect to the time of day. ↪ Removed on 2014-07-09. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --suggestion-ntp-linear-filter ⊗ | Enables a linear dropoff to the relevancy of visits with respect to the time of day. ↪ Removed on 2014-07-09. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --swiftshader ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --swiftshader-path ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --sync-allow-insecure-xmpp-connection ⊗ | Allows insecure XMPP connections for sync (for testing). ↪ Removed on 2014-05-16. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-invalidate-xmpp-login ⊗ | Invalidates any login info passed into sync's XMPP connection. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-16. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-keystore-encryption ⊗ | Enable support for keystore key based encryption. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-12. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-notification-host-port ⊗ | Overrides the default host:port used for sync notifications. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-16. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-notification-method ⊗ | Overrides the default notification method for sync. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-04. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-short-initial-retry-override ⊗ | 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. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-tab-favicons ⊗ | Enables syncing of favicons as part of tab sync. ↪ Removed on 2013-07-10. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-throw-unrecoverable-error ⊗ | Makes the sync code to throw an unrecoverable error after initialization. Useful for testing unrecoverable error scenarios. ↪ Removed on 2014-05-29. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-try-ssltcp-first-for-xmpp ⊗ | Tries to connect to XMPP using SSLTCP first (for testing). ↪ Removed on 2014-05-16. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --sync-url ⊗ | Overrides the default server used for profile sync. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --tablet-ui[3] ⊗ | Uses the tablet specific UI components when available. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-16. This switch was listed in ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --tap-down-deferral-time ⊗ | GestureTapDown events are deferred by this many miillseconds before sending them to the renderer. ↪ Removed on 2013-10-23. This switch was listed in /content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --test-child-process ⊗ | When running certain tests that spawn child processes, this switch indicates to the test framework that the current process is a child process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --test-gl-lib ⊗ | Flag used for Linux tests: for desktop GL bindings, try to load this GL library first, but fall back to regular library if loading fails. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --test-nacl-sandbox ⊗ | Runs the security test for the NaCl loader sandbox. ↪ Removed on 2013-08-13. This switch was listed in /components/nacl/common/nacl_switches.cc. |
| --test-name ⊗ | Passes the name of the current running automated test to Chrome. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --test-sandbox ⊗ | Runs the security test for the renderer sandbox. ↪ Removed on 2014-06-05. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --test-type ⊗ | Type of the current test harness ("browser" or "ui"). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --testing-channel ⊗ | Tells the app to listen for and broadcast testing-related messages on IPC channel with the given ID. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-05. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --testing-fixed-http-port ⊗ | Allows for forcing socket connections to http/https to use fixed ports. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --testing-fixed-https-port ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --touch-devices[16] ⊗ | Tells chrome to interpret events from these devices as touch events. Only available with XInput 2 (i.e. X server 1.8 or above). The id's of the devices can be retrieved from 'xinput list'. ↪ Removed on 2013-09-30. This switch was listed in /ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --touch-optimized-ui ⊗ | Enables UI changes that make it easier to use with a touchscreen. WARNING: Do not check this flag directly when deciding what UI to draw, instead you must call ui::GetDisplayLayout ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in ui/base/ui_base_switches.cc. |
| --trace-startup ⊗ | Causes TRACE_EVENT flags to be recorded from startup. Optionally, can specify the specific trace categories to include (e.g. --trace-startup=base,net) otherwise, all events are recorded. Setting this flag results in the first call to BeginTracing() to receive all trace events since startup. In Chrome, you may find --trace-startup-file and --trace-startup-duration to control the auto-saving of the trace (not supported in the base-only TraceLog component). ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --trace-startup-duration ⊗ | Sets the time in seconds until startup tracing ends. If omitted a default of 5 seconds is used. Has no effect without --trace-startup, or if --startup-trace-file=none was supplied. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --trace-startup-file ⊗ | 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. Has no effect unless --trace-startup is also supplied. Example: --trace-startup --trace-startup-file=/tmp/trace_event.log As a special case, can be set to 'none' - this disables automatically saving the result to a file and the first manually recorded trace will then receive all events since startup. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --trusted-spdy-proxy ⊗ | Disables same-origin check on HTTP resources pushed via a SPDY proxy. The value is the host:port of the trusted proxy. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --try-chrome-again ⊗ | Experimental. Shows a dialog asking the user to try chrome. This flag is to be used only by the upgrade process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --type ⊗ | The value of this switch determines whether the process is started as a renderer or plugin host. If it's empty, it's the browser. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --uninstall ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in cloud_print/service/service_switches.cc. |
| --uninstall-extension ⊗ | Uninstalls an extension with the specified extension id. ↪ Removed on 2014-04-29. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --use-cras[17] ⊗ | Use CRAS, the ChromeOS audio server. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --use-gl ⊗ | Select which implementation of GL the GPU process should use. Options are: desktop: whatever desktop OpenGL the user has installed (Linux and Mac default). egl: whatever EGL / GLES2 the user has installed (Windows default - actually ANGLE). osmesa: The OSMesa software renderer. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in ui/gl/gl_switches.cc. |
| --use-leveldb-for-gdata[5] ⊗ | Use level db for drive metadata storage. ↪ Removed on 2012-09-26. This switch was listed in src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --use-mobile-user-agent ⊗ | Set when Chromium should use a mobile user agent. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --use-mock-keychain[7] ⊗ | No description ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in components/os_crypt/os_crypt_switches.cc. |
| --use-pulseaudio[18] ⊗ | Use PulseAudio on platforms that support it. ↪ Removed on 2013-03-13. This switch was listed in src/media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --use-spdy ⊗ | Uses Spdy for the transport protocol instead of HTTP. This is a temporary testing flag. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --use-system-ssl[19] ⊗ | Use the system SSL library (Secure Transport on Mac, SChannel on Windows) instead of NSS for SSL. ↪ Removed on 2013-01-16. This switch was listed in src/content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --user-agent ⊗ | A string used to override the default user agent with a custom one. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --user-data-dir ⊗ | Specifies the user data directory, which is where the browser will look for all of its state. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --utility ⊗ | Causes the process to run as a utility subprocess. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --utility-allowed-dir ⊗ | The utility process is sandboxed, with access to one directory. This flag specifies the directory that can be accessed. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --utility-cmd-prefix ⊗ | On POSIX only: the contents of this flag are prepended to the utility process command line. Useful values might be "valgrind" or "xterm -e gdb --args". ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --v ⊗ | Gives the default maximal active V-logging level; 0 is the default. Normally positive values are used for V-logging levels. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --variations-server-url ⊗ | Specifies a custom URL for the server which reports variation data to the client. Specifying this switch enables the Variations service on unofficial builds. See variations_service.cc. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --version ⊗ | Prints version information and quits. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --video-threads ⊗ | Set number of threads to use for video decoding. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in media/base/media_switches.cc. |
| --visit-urls ⊗ | Cycle through a series of URLs listed in the specified file. ↪ Removed on 2013-09-04. This switch was listed in /chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --vmodule ⊗ | Gives the per-module maximal V-logging levels to override the value given by --v. E.g. "my_module=2,foo*=3" would change the logging level for all code in source files "my_module.*" and "foo*.*" ("-inl" suffixes are also disregarded for this matching). Any pattern containing a forward or backward slash will be tested against the whole pathname and not just the module. E.g., "*/foo/bar/*=2" would change the logging level for all code in source files under a "foo/bar" directory. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --wait-for-debugger ⊗ | Will wait for 60 seconds for a debugger to come to attach to the process. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in base/base_switches.cc. |
| --wait-for-debugger-children ⊗ | Will add kWaitForDebugger to every child processes. 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. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --wait-for-mutex[9] ⊗ | Waits for the given handle to be signaled before relaunching metro Chrome on Windows 8 and higher. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --webcore-log-channels ⊗ | Choose which logging channels in WebCore to activate. See Logging.cpp in WebKit's WebCore for a list of available channels. ↪ Removed on 2014-02-04. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --whitelisted-extension-id ⊗ | Adds the given extension ID to all the permission whitelists. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in extensions/common/switches.cc. |
| --window-position ⊗ | Specify the initial window position: --window-position=x,y ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --window-size ⊗ | Specify the initial window size: --window-size=w,h ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --winhttp-proxy-resolver ⊗ | Uses WinHTTP to fetch and evaluate PAC scripts. Otherwise the default is to use Chromium's network stack to fetch, and V8 to evaluate. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc. |
| --worker ⊗ | Causes the process to run as a worker subprocess. ↪ Removed on 2014-08-31. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
| --zygote ⊗ | Causes the process to run as a renderer zygote. ↪ Removed on 2014-11-14. This switch was listed in content/public/common/content_switches.cc. |
How to use a command line switch?
The Chromium Team has made a page on which they briefly explain how to use these switches.
Conditions
These are rather technical. While most are pretty self-explanatory, keep in mind that any condition means that a switch isn't always available.
- The constant ENABLE_PLUGINS must be defined.
- The constants OS_FREEBSD, OS_LINUX and OS_SOLARIS must be defined.
- The constant OS_ANDROID must be defined.
- The constant OS_POSIX must be defined.
- The constant OS_CHROMEOS must be defined.
- The constant OFFICIAL_BUILD must not be defined, and the constant ENABLE_PRINT_PREVIEW must be defined.
- The constant OS_MACOSX must be defined.
- The constant OS_IOS must not be defined, and the constant OS_MACOSX must be defined.
- The constant OS_WIN must be defined.
- The constant USE_AURA must be defined.
- The constant NDEBUG must not be defined.
- The constant GOOGLE_CHROME_BUILD must not be defined.
- The constants OS_MACOSX and OS_WIN must not be defined.
- The constants OS_CHROMEOS and OS_MACOSX must not be defined, and the constant OS_POSIX must be defined.
- The constant OS_MACOSX must not be defined, and the constant OS_POSIX must be defined.
- The constants OS_LINUX and TOOLKIT_VIEWS must be defined.
- The constant USE_CRAS must be defined.
- The constant USE_PULSEAUDIO must be defined.
- The constants OS_MACOSX and OS_WIN must be defined.