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How to remove the infobar "Microsoft Edge is being controlled by automated test software" in selenium test

We are using selenium to run test against "Chromium based Edge". "The Chromium Edge" is downloaded from https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download and the version is 80.0.334.2 (Official build) dev (64-bit). We got the matched driver msedgedriver.exe from https://msedgewebdriverstorage.z22.web.core.windows.net/

We add the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application" to the environment "PATH" so that the executable "msedge.exe" will be found during the test. After starting the selenium server with option -Dwebdriver.edge.driver="pathTo\msedgedriver.exe", we can get the test run in the "Chromium Edge" as below:

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But there is a infobar "Microsoft Edge is being controlled by automated test software", just like we run test with chrome browser. With chrome, we can remove that infobar by setting the following ExperimentalOption to ChromeOptions

  1. useAutomationExtension=false
  2. excludeSwitches=[enable-automation]
  3. prefs={credentials_enable_service=false, profile={password_manager_enabled=false}}

I tried to set the same options and I got a browser launched without the infobar, but it is a chrome browser NOT the "Chromium Edge".

Solution

  • I think that I can explain the all the confusions (perhaps for myself 😊). In the following link Microsoft Chromium Edge

    We can find something as below: If you were previously automating or testing Microsoft Edge (Chromium) by using ChromeDriver and ChromeOptions, your WebDriver code will not run successfully against Microsoft Edge 80 or later. This is a breaking change and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) no longer accepts these commands. You must change your tests to use EdgeOptions and Microsoft Edge Driver.

    So we can handle the Chromium-Edge (version is smaller than 80) completely as a chrome browser.

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\SeleniumPlus\\extra\\msedgedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge Dev\\Application\\msedge.exe");
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
driver.close();

    For the Chromium-Edge (version 80 or later), we should treat it as an Edge browser, the code is as below:

    The problem is that EdgeOptions does NOT provide enough APIs (setBinary, setExperimentalOption) as ChromeOptions ☹.

    I checked the selenium’s source code at github and I found that the EdgeOptions has already supported those methods as ChromeOptions. So I downloaded the latest official build whose version is 3.141.59, and it was released this on Dec 20, 2018 and I found out that it doesn’t contain the latest source code ☹. So I got the alpha release 4.0.0-alpha-4 and it does contain the latest source code. 

    System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", "C:\\SeleniumPlus\\extra\\msedgedriver.exe");
EdgeOptions edgeOptions = new EdgeOptions();
edgeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge Dev\\Application\\msedge.exe");
edgeOptions.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
edgeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
EdgeDriver driver = new EdgeDriver(edgeOptions);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
driver.close();

    Finally I want to thank my comrade comrade Carl, he helped me find the trick.