Set Chrome Options

A ChromeDriver session i.e. a test running on the Chrome browser, can further be customized and configured using ChromeOptions. BrowserStack supports the full complement of ChromeOptions.

Following is a sample capability declaration example where ChromeOptions is being used to start Chrome in incognito mode:

DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("incognito");  // ChromeOptions for starting chrome in incognito mode

caps.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
// other capability declarations
caps.setCapability("browser", "Chrome");
caps.setCapability("browser_version", "latest");
caps.setCapability("os", "Windows");
caps.setCapability("os_version", "10");
public static final String URL = "https://YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY@hub-cloud.browserstack.com/wd/hub";
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps);
// rest of the test case goes here

var capabilities = {
  "browserName" : "chrome",
  "chromeOptions" : {
    "args" : ["incognito"]  // ChromeOption to start chrome in incognito mode
  }
}

using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("incognito");  // ChromeOption to start chrome in incognito mode

// Other capabilities are declared below
options.AddAdditionalCapability("browser", "Chrome", true);
options.AddAdditionalCapability("browser_version", "latest", true);
options.AddAdditionalCapability("os", "Windows", true);
options.AddAdditionalCapability("os_version", "10", true);
options.AddAdditionalCapability("browserstack.user", "YOUR_USERNAME", true);
options.AddAdditionalCapability("browserstack.key", "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY", true);
IWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
    new Uri("https://hub-cloud.browserstack.com/wd/hub/"), capability
);
// Rest of the test case goes here

# Using chromeOptions to start chrome in incognito mode

$chromeOptions = array(
 "args" => array("incognito")
);

$caps = array(
 "chromeOptions" => $chromeOptions
);

# Using chromeOptions to start chrome in incognito mode

desired_cap["chromeOptions"] = {}
desired_cap["chromeOptions"]["args"] = ["incognito"]

# Using chromeOptions to start chrome in incognito mode

caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome
caps["chromeOptions"] = {}
caps["chromeOptions"]["args"] = ["incognito"]

# Using chromeOptions to start chrome in incognito mode

$capabilities->{"chromeOptions"} = {
 "args" => ("incognito")
};

Note: BrowserStack supports all the ChromeOptions that is supported in Selenium tests. You can pass any ChromeOption during the start of your test session similar to the sample ChromeOption declaration code snippet shown above.

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