Chrome Flags Reference

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

--reduce-user-agent-minor-version

What does --reduce-user-agent-minor-version do?

Reduce the minor version number in the User-Agent string. This flag implements phase 4 of User-Agent reduction: https://blog.chromium.org/2021/09/user-agent-reduction-origin-trial-and-dates.html.

Usage

CLILaunch Chrome with --reduce-user-agent-minor-version using CLI

chrome --reduce-user-agent-minor-version

PuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --reduce-user-agent-minor-version using Puppeteer

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  args: ['--reduce-user-agent-minor-version']
});

PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --reduce-user-agent-minor-version using Playwright

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  args: ['--reduce-user-agent-minor-version']
});

SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --reduce-user-agent-minor-version using Selenium

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--reduce-user-agent-minor-version')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

Build Conditions

LOAD_WEBUI_FROM_DISK