Disable Flash

You can disable Flash in Chrome, Firefox and IE as follows:

Select a browser:

Disabling Flash in Chrome

To disable Flash in Chrome, create a chromeOptions capability, and pass the --disable-plugins argument.

Note: Using this argument will turn off all the plugins in the browser.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--disable-plugins");
caps.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

var capabilities = {
  browserName: 'chrome',
  chromeOptions: {
    args: ['--disable-plugins'],
  },
};

using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;

DesiredCapabilities caps;
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.AddArgument("--disable-plugins");
caps = (DesiredCapabilities)chromeOptions.ToCapabilities();

$chromeOptions = array('args'=>array('--disable-plugins'));
$caps = array("platform"=>"WINDOWS", "browserName"=>"chrome", "chromeOptions"=>$chromeOptions);

caps = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
caps["chromeOptions"] = {}
caps["chromeOptions"]["args"] = ["--disable-plugins"]

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

$caps->{"chromeOptions"} = { "args" => ("--disable-plugins") };

Disabling Flash in Firefox

To disable Flash in Firefox, set the flash capability to 0.

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("plugin.state.flash", 0);
caps.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, profile);

// Install firefox-profile package
npm install firefox-profile

var myProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
myProfile.setPreference("plugin.state.flash", 0);
myProfile.updatePreferences();

using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;

FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.Firefox();
firefoxProfile.SetPreference("plugin.state.flash", 0);
caps.SetCapability(FirefoxDriver.ProfileCapabilityName, firefoxProfile.ToBase64String());

$profile = new FirefoxProfile();

$profile->setPreference(
  'plugin.state.flash', 0
);

$caps = DesiredCapabilities::firefox();
$caps->setCapability(FirefoxDriver::PROFILE, $profile);

caps = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('plugin.state.flash', 0)
profile.update_preferences()
driver = webdriver.Remote(
  command_executor='https://YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY@hub-cloud.browserstack.com/wd/hub',
  desired_capabilities=caps, browser_profile=profile)

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile["plugin.state.flash"] = 0
caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.firefox(:firefox_profile => profile)

Disabling Flash in Internet Explorer

To disable Flash in Internet explorer, pass the browserstack.ie.noFlash capability in your tests.

DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
caps.setCapability("browserstack.ie.noFlash", "true");

var capabilities = {
  'browserstack.ie.noFlash': 'true',
};

desiredCap.SetCapability("browserstack.ie.noFlash", "true");

$caps['browserstack.ie.noFlash'] = "true";

desired_cap["browserstack.ie.noFlash"] = "true"

caps["browserstack.ie.noFlash"] = "true"

$extraCaps->{"browserstack.ie.noFlash"} = "true";

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