Cypress: Chrome is being controlled by automated test software alert info bar

[TLadd]

Current behavior:

Since Chrome 76, this Chrome is being controlled by automated test software alert info bar is shown when running tests.

Related to https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1466. disable-infobars was removed again: chromium/chromium@1f2ed68

Commit message mentions An alternative middle-ground is to offer an enterprise policy which allows disabling the security infobars related to automation.. Based on the PR, I believe it's this one: https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=CommandLineFlagSecurityWarningsEnabled. So if I'm understanding correctly, I think we would want to enable that policy.

Desired behavior:

As before, this alert would not render

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

Open any cypress test suite with Chrome 76 or later.

Versions

Cypress: 3.4.1
Chrome: 76
OS: Mac OS X

[magynhard]

Occurs on any test environment using chromedriver 76 / Chrome 76.

Same here with Cucumber BDD 3.1.2 @ ruby 2.4.4p296 @ Win7

[flotwig]

Cypress uses the --disable-infobars flag to disable that toolbar, but the Chrome team removed it in Chrome 76 as you've noticed.

The CommandLineFlagSecurityWarningsEnabled has to be set by an administrator, Cypress cannot set it. There's a Local State preference, browser.command_line_flag_security_warnings_enabled, which Cypress also cannot set.

So unfortunately right now there's not a way for us to remove this banner. It shouldn't have an adverse impact on your tests.

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You can download an older version of Chromium to work around this for now: https://chromium.cypress.io