--restart
What does --restart do?
Indicates that Chrome was restarted (e.g., after a flag change). This is used to ignore the launch when recording the Launch.Mode2 metric.
Usage
CLILaunch Chrome with --restart using CLI
chrome --restartPuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --restart using Puppeteer
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
args: ['--restart']
});PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --restart using Playwright
const browser = await chromium.launch({
args: ['--restart']
});SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --restart using Selenium
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--restart')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)