Setting Chrome Options

I’d like to add some extensions to my chrome instance, using the WebDriver JavaScript API I would do this:

var options = new chrome.Options().
    addExtensions("pathToExtension");

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
    withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).
    setChromeOptions(options).
    build();

How would I do the same thing in protractor?

It looks like you are parsing the capabilities section of the JSON to work out how to build the driver object, but I don’t see anything in the structure that would accept a series of options.

As a side note is there a google group/mailing list for protractor, it would be good to put queries like this there rather than cluttering up the issues list.

[juliemr]

Hi! You can set options in the Capabilities object - such as:

capabilities {
  'browserName': 'chrome',
  'chromeOptions': {
    'extensions': ['pathToExtension']
  }
}

[lksv]

I was facing the similar problem when I tried to test chromiumembedded app (I need to set up chrome binary path).

The solution is set the binary key and also some other keys even there are empty (it is due to that capabilities is pased to the selenium-webdriver/chrome.js):

  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome',
    "chromeOptions": {
      binary: '/path/to/cef_binary',
      args: [], 
      extensions: [], 
    }   
  },  

…even cleaner solution should be use the Options instance.