Chrome Extension - Selenium

[propovip]

I am able to install chrome extension by default and i uderstand the
same is loaded in to user profile.
Whenever i am opening the chrome browser using selenium chromedriver i
am unable to see the extension. does selenium Webdriver doesnt load
already installed chrome extensions?

[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

As far as I know, it loads with a clean profile. You can pass command
line flags to the ChromeDriver, which will let you use
--load-extension="path-to-extension" with the following:

DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
caps.setCapability("chrome.switches",
Arrays.asList("--load-extension=/path/to/extension"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(caps);

this will be better documented soon. You may also want to create a
feature request for allowing profiles to be passed to the ChromeDriver
on https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/entry

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[Muhil]

Thank you Daniel!!!! I will raise a ticket as i saw the custom profile was one of the limitations of webdriver i thought its an known issue.