Chrome update 127 and search engine choice

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Hi all,

As many of you might have noticed, Chrome has been updated to v127, and for automation purposes when Opening Browser from scratch wit RF, a pop-up is now available to choose the search engine.

As Google often use (I guess) shadow-dom, this pop-up is not easily interactable, and even if it would I don’t plan to act on it at each startup.

Long story short, I didn’t found any argument to manage this window, so dug into the chrome profile and preferences files, keep only what’s required to validate this pop-up (100ko files), and use it as profile this way:

VAR    ${profile_argument}    --user-data-dir=${PROFILE_PATH}
${chrome_options}    Evaluate    sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions()    sys, selenium.webdriver
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    ${profile_argument}
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-dev-shm-usage
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --no-sandbox
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-logging
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --log-level\=3
VAR    ${url}    myurl

Open Browser    ${url}    chrome    options=${chrome_options}

This works, I stored the profile, copy it at startup, but if somebody has some other ideas or solution I’m ready :grin:

Thing here is that when using Docker locally each profile needs it’s own folder, and I’m not really into managing these files on a day or week basis, considering they might change a lot.

Thanks and regards
Charlie

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The answer in StackOverflow probably should work

Just need to add this Chrome Options:
options.addArguments(“–disable-search-engine-choice-screen”);

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Nice, thanks. Didn’t found this topic before. But I’ll try it and let you know.

Thanks again

Edit : yes that works!

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Currently I am using this keyword and it works:
Open Browser ${URL} ${browser_selected} service_log_path=${{os.path.devnull}} options=add_experimental_option(“prefs”,${prefs}); add_experimental_option(“excludeSwitches”,${logging})

How should I add this “search engine block”? This one does not work:
Open Browser ${URL} ${browser_selected} service_log_path=${{os.path.devnull}} options=add_experimental_option(“prefs”,${prefs}); add_experimental_option(“excludeSwitches”,${logging}); add_experimental_option(“–disable-search-engine-choice-screen”)

This one fails:
Open Browser ${URL} ${browser_selected} options=options.addArguments(“–disable-search-engine-choice-screen”);

Suspended due to logged failure: ValueError: Unable to parse option: “options.addArguments(“–disable-search-engine-choice-screen”)”

This one worked:
Open Browser ${URL} ${browser_selected} options=add_argument(“disable-search-engine-choice-screen”)

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Thank you for the solution

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Hi,

I’m not using the options as you do directly in the line, but use it this way that works (it’s not an experimental one), creating the instance first then adding options:

${chrome_options}    Evaluate    sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions()    sys, selenium.webdriver
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-search-engine-choice-screen
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-dev-shm-usage
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --no-sandbox
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-logging
Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --log-level\=3
Open Browser    ${url}    chrome    options=${chrome_options}
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I was having trouble too, but @mrr_robot solution showed me that the argument does not have the initial dash. This is my step:

Open Browser    ${juice_shop_local}    ${BROWSER}    options=add_argument("disable-search-engine-choice-screen");

:beverage_box: :wink:

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