Desired Capabilities documentation for changing Chrome's default download folder

[Brandon_Hein]

The following property controls where files are downloaded to when using chrome:

download.default_directory

As with any chrome setting, you can find out which property controls a given chrome setting using my guide:

Desired Capabilities - The Missing Manual

One of the biggest hurdles with using Katalon/Webdriver is setting the appropriate Desired Capabilities that configure various browser settings programmatically. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1.) Browsers do not expose these back-end properties in the settings menu. Instead, they offer a user-friendly GUI for configuring settings that are based on these properties. This of course makes sense for 99.9999% of browser users, but isn’t helpful for us. 2.) The appropriate Desired Capabili…