Custom Brave switches

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Nick von Pentz edited this page Aug 9, 2023 · 9 revisions

Switches

In addition to supporting all Chromium command line switches, the following switches are supported:

npm start --disable_brave_extension: Disable loading Brave extension on startup (note: this only disable the extension control view, not Shields)
npm start --disable_pdfjs_extension: Prevent installing the PDFJS extension
npm start --disable_webtorrent_extension: Disable loading Brave WebTorrent extension on startup

Note: If you'd like to use yarn instead of npm you can use yarn import to create a yarn.lock file from our package-lock.json.

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If a CLI flag --ntp-branded-data-path is provided with a valid FS directory path, then that directory will be used and the remote component will not be used or fetched.

This is a great way to create a folder with a photo.json to test new integrations with the new tab page.

Brave Wallet

See components/brave_wallet/common/switches.cc

--dev-wallet-password="your_password"
--bitcoin-mainnet-rpc-url="your_btc_url"
--bitcoin-testnet-rpc-url="your_btc_testnet_url"
--asset-ratio-dev-url="https://ratios.rewards.brave.software"

Useful Chromium switches which must be passed to the binary

--show-component-extension-options
--simulate-outdated simulate Brave being out of date (should show downloading in brave://settings/help)