Chrome Flags Reference

--disable-background-networking

What does --disable-background-networking do?

Disable several subsystems which run network requests in the background. This is for use when doing network performance testing to avoid noise in the measurements.

Usage

chrome --disable-background-networking

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  args: ['--disable-background-networking']
});

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  args: ['--disable-background-networking']
});

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--disable-background-networking')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)