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+title: "Two Chrome features you should disable"
+linkTitle: "Two Chrome features you should disable"
+date: 2024-08-13
+tags: ["chrome"]
+categories: ["general"]
+author: Marek Andreansky [@skyhirider](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekandreansky/)
+description: This blog post lists two problematic Chrome features that can affect your automation as well as a quick way to disable them.
+---
+
+## Search engine selections creen
+
+Starting with version 127 of Chrome, the browser [now asks which search engine you would like to use](https://www.google.com/chrome/choicescreen/), which is great for normal users.
+
+But for automation, it does so every single time.
+
+To bypass this, use the argument below when specifying the browser options.
+
+```
+--disable-search-engine-choice-screen
+```
+
+## Chrome wastes over 60MB of you bandwidth downloading language plugins
+
+The second feature is something that has been with Chrome for quite a while now, but I have only recently became aware of it.
+
+Every time you launch Chrome, [it will query and download several .crx files](https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/u78vd0/chrome_has_constantly_been_downloading_something/).
+
+These files can even be left over on your disk's download folder if you create and close drivers faster than these can be processed.
+
+To disable this feature, use the browser option below.
+
+```
+--disable-features=OptimizationGuideModelDownloading,OptimizationHintsFetching,OptimizationTargetPrediction,OptimizationHints
+```