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title: "Two Chrome features you should disable"
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linkTitle: "Two Chrome features you should disable"
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date: 2024-08-18
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tags: ["chrome"]
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categories: ["general"]
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author: Marek Andreansky [@skyhirider](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekandreansky/)
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description: This blog post lists two problematic Chrome features that can affect your automation as well as a quick way to disable them.
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---
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## Search engine selection screen
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Starting with version 127 of Chrome, the browser [now asks which search engine you would like to use](https://www.google.com/chrome/choicescreen/),
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which is great for regular users.
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But for automation, it does so every single time.
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To bypass this, use the argument below when specifying the browser options.
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```
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--disable-search-engine-choice-screen
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```
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## Chrome wastes over 60MB of your bandwidth downloading language plugins
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The second feature is something that has been with Chrome for quite a while now.
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Every time you launch Chrome,
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[it will query and download several .crx files](https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/u78vd0/chrome_has_constantly_been_downloading_something/).
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These files can even be left over on your disk's download folder if you create and close drivers faster than these can be processed.
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To disable this feature, use the browser option below.
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```
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--disable-features=OptimizationGuideModelDownloading,OptimizationHintsFetching,OptimizationTargetPrediction,OptimizationHints
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```
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_This is a guest blog post by [Marek Andreansky](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekandreansky/)_

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