How to disable Chrome Automation Extension via Selenium (Java)

Question

I have a requirement to disable the "chrome automation extension" while running my selenium scripts.

Can someone suggest me an approach to disable this extension using Selenium.

[Screenshot of Extensions settings in Chrome1

Note: I tried already with

chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")

but in vain. So, please suggest me a solution.

• Nagaraj Vuyyuru: Whenever we run our scripts, automatically this extension get enabled right while invoking the browser. You can see in the above screenshot a loader symbol displayed beside the Fav icon (Right to browser URL) FYI: Chrome Browser Version: Version 83.0.4103.116 Chrome driver version: 83.0.4103.39
• Mohamed Sulaimaan Sheriff: stackoverflow.com/a/44884633/10858089 this may help you

Answer 1

Try below steps,

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Or

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
ptions.addArguments("disable-extensions");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);