Chrome Flags Reference

Chrome command line switches and startup flags for automation, headless mode, and debugging.

--no-zygote

What does --no-zygote do?

Disables the use of a zygote process for forking child processes. Instead, child processes will be forked and exec'd directly. Note that --no-sandbox should also be used together with this flag because the sandbox needs the zygote to work.

Usage

CLILaunch Chrome with --no-zygote using CLI

chrome --no-zygote

PuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --no-zygote using Puppeteer

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  args: ['--no-zygote']
});

PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --no-zygote using Playwright

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  args: ['--no-zygote']
});

SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --no-zygote using Selenium

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--no-zygote')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

Build Conditions

LOAD_WEBUI_FROM_DISK