Why is it not possible to load extension in Cypress using headless mode

Asked Apr 04 '22 at 08:14

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I've developed a chrome extension and I would like to e2e test it in a pipeline. So I install Cypress. But then I saw the following code example

// NOTE: extensions cannot be loaded in headless Chrome

It states that it is not possible to load an extension in headless mode. Why is this the case, I assume that there is a good reason for this.

asked Apr 04 '22 at 08:14

Jeanluca Scaljeri

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This is a Chrome restriction, and not unique to Cypress. [More info in this SO post.](https://stackoverflow.com/a/62347398/11625850) – agoff Apr 04 '22 at 13:35

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