How to authorize plugins execution for ChromeDriver?

[Juan Luna]

Hello everyone, 

My system:

Windows 7 64 bits // Selenium 2.31.0 // ChromeDriver server (v2.0.204324.dyu) // Chrome 27.0.14

When using ChrimeDriver, I have the following two questions:

1. ChromeDriver is logging all the "INFO" level messages into my console, how can I disable it?

I have tried by changing the ""--logging-level=1" or using "capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--disable-logging"));" but I still have the INFO messages.

2. My application uses a Java applet. So when testing it I get the yellow ribbon asking authorization to run it (Java(TM) needs your permission to run...) How to authorize it?

I have tried capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--always-authorize-plugins=true")); and I cannot treat it as an alert (driver.switchTo().alert().accept();)....so not sure how to deal with it.

Any help is appreciated.

The console shows the following information when creating the chrome instance:

[0.979][INFO]: received WebDriver request: POST /session {

   "desiredCapabilities": {

      "browserName": "chrome",

      "chrome.switches": [ "--always-authorize-plugins" ],

      "platform": "ANY",

      "version": ""

   }

}

[1.024][INFO]: Launching chrome: "C:\Users\jluma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --remote-debugging-port=54689 --no-first-run --enable-logging --logging-level=1 --user-data-dir="C:\Users\jluma\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir8436_1109" --load-extension="C:\Users\jluma\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir8436_3085\internal" --ignore-certificate-errors data:text/html;charset=utf-8,

[8.682][INFO]: sending WebDriver response: 303 

[8.704][INFO]: received WebDriver request: GET /session/bb9fe10d279720236f2ebdc878474bb2 

[8.704][INFO]: sending WebDriver response: 200 {

   "sessionId": "bb9fe10d279720236f2ebdc878474bb2",

   "status": 0,

   "value": {

      "acceptSslCerts": true,

      "applicationCacheEnabled": false,

      "browserConnectionEnabled": false,

      "browserName": "chrome",

      "chrome": {

         "chromedriverVersion": "2.0"

      },

      "cssSelectorsEnabled": true,

      "databaseEnabled": true,

      "handlesAlerts": true,

      "javascriptEnabled": true,

      "locationContextEnabled": true,

      "nativeEvents": true,

      "platform": "Windows NT",

      "rotatable": false,

      "takesScreenshot": true,

      "version": "27.0.1453.110",

      "webStorageEnabled": true

   }

}

[ValB]

Hi Juan,
   Did you ever find a solution for this (item 2)?  I have the same problem, can't get e.g. --always-authorize-plugins to have any effect. 

   Not entirely thrilled with this as a solution, but I did find the following workaround: When launching Chrome to run your test, first load the plugins page i.e.

driver.get("chrome://plugins/");

then, check all the checkboxes on the page to enable all plugins (could of course do it more selectively too):
for (WebElement e : driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[@type='checkbox']")))
    { if (!e.isSelected())
         e.click(); }

[Manjunath T]

Hi Guys,

I had similar problem for item#2. We had plugin which will always ask for the "run this time" or "always run". by adding below option i could solve the problem.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.addArguments("--always-authorize-plugins=true");

capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);