Here is what I'm using, user agent can be successfully set, while download preferences cannot.
Windows 7, Chrome 26, Selenium-dotnet-2.31.2, chromedriver_win_26.0.1383.0
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions(); var prefs = new Dictionary { { "download.default_directory", @"C:\code" }, { "download.prompt_for_download", false } }; chromeOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("chrome.prefs", prefs); chromeOptions.AddArgument("--user-agent=" + "some safari agent"); var driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
Taken from chromedriver.log:
[1.201][FINE]: Initializing session with capabilities { "browserName": "chrome", "chrome.prefs": { "download.default_directory": "C:\\code", "download.prompt_for_download": false }, "chrome.switches": [ "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.57.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version..." ], "chromeOptions": { "args": [ "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.57.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version..." ], "binary": "", "extensions": [ ] }, "javascriptEnabled": true, "platform": "WINDOWS", "version": "" }
Check the temp Preferences file at *temp\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences
, no "default_directory"
and "prompt_for_download"
are set.
"download": { "directory_upgrade": true },