enable Chrome flags from the command line

Question

I want to enable a flag (enable-token-binding) while launching chrome. I can do that using chrome://flags page. but for running tests I need to do it from command line.

I tried

chrome --enable-features=token-binding

chrome --enable-token-binding

None of them worked.

Try `--flag-switches-begin --enable-features=token-binding --flag-switches-end` — wOxxOm, Jun 18 '18 at 20:32

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '20 at 05:57

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go to chrome://version
Find the command line arguments:

Command Line /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome --enable-audio-service-sandbox --flag-switches-begin --enable-features=CookiesWithoutSameSiteMustBeSecure,SameSiteByDefaultCookies --flag-switches-end --enable-audio-service-sandbox

Run the above command with all the arguments and your chrome instance would have all the settings preset.

answered Jan 13 '20 at 05:57

mayankSinha

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This no longer works. Any idea why? Has chrome deprecated this feature? – Matthew Oct 22 '20 at 15:37
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@Matthew looks like chrome has disabled it completely. – mayankSinha Nov 16 '20 at 19:00
@#$%^&*(*&^%$ haha, thanks for confirming! – Matthew Dec 04 '20 at 17:18

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 19:30

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Try --flag-switches-begin --enable-token-binding --flag-switches-end.

The patter is --flag-switches start and ends capping the flags. Then the names of the flags provided as the parameters within with -- prefixed to them.

answered Jun 27 '18 at 19:30

Garbee

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '20 at 16:58

Token Binding was removed in Chrome release 70

see https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5097603234529280

mayankSinha's answer works for the flags he mentions. Note the changed naming convention though: "lower case split by -" convention gets changed to CamelCase.

i.e. same-site-by-default-cookies (as shown in chrome://flags) becomes SameSiteByDefaultCookies

enable Chrome flags from the command line

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