Chrome Flags Reference

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

--validating

What does --validating do?

The command decoder names that can be passed to --use-cmd-decoder.

Usage

CLILaunch Chrome with --validating using CLI

chrome --validating

PuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --validating using Puppeteer

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

PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --validating using Playwright

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

SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --validating using Selenium

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--validating')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

Build Conditions

ENABLE_VULKAN && \