Extensions enabled at Recording

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Dear Team,

We are evaluating Katalon for one of our projects, We need to have extension enabled at the time of recording. Is this possible.

Thanks
Srini

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Which browser you want? Chrome?

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My previous study

reports that you can find in the chromedriver.log file how ChromeDriver invoked by Katalon Studio starts Chrome browser; The commandline was, at the time of writing the report, something like this:

[1526012674.637][INFO]: Launching chrome: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” --disable-background-networking --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-default-apps --disable-hang-monitor --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-sync --disable-web-resources --enable-automation --enable-logging --force-fieldtrials=SiteIsolationExtensions/Control --ignore-certificate-errors --load-extension=“C:\Katalon_Studio_Windows_64-5.4.1\configuration\resources\extensions\Chrome\Object Spy,C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir10832_12653\internal” --log-level=0 --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --password-store=basic --remote-debugging-port=12067 --test-type=webdriver --use-mock-keychain --user-data-dir=“C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir10832_25782” data:,

What would be significant for you is whether the option ‘–disable-extensions’ is specified or not.

If Katalon Studio makes ChromeDriver to emit commandline with ‘–disable-extensions’ option, then Srini you can not have extensions-enabled Chrome.

At the time of writing my previos study, there wasn’t --disable-extensions option. Therefore, I think, I could use Spy with Chrome which has at least one extension enabled.

I have not checked chromedriver.log created by the recent versions of Katalon Studio. Please check it for yourself.

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