With the webdriver.io tests that we run we have almost only default settings for Chrome. This means everything a normal user does is turned on. That is not good for automatic testing, see Google own documentation of what you can turn off for automatic testing; https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher/blob/main/docs/chrome-flags-for-tools.md
We also have the list of potential switches but it's hard to consume.
For our performance tests we use many of these switches to make Chrome more lean. Let us do the same for the webdriver.io tests.
Best case this will make Chrome/Chromium more lightweight and decrease the load on CI a little.
Acceptance Criteria
- Follow our performance tests and disable setting following Googles guideline