Run google-chrome with flags on Android

Question

There are command line flags (or \"switches\") that Chromium (and Chrome) accept in order to enable particular features or modify otherwise default functionality.

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Answer 1

New method added in Chrome 66¹ that works for a production build on unrooted devices.

1. Using adb, write the flags to /data/local/tmp/chrome-command-line.

   For example:

   ~$ adb shell 'echo --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure=http://a.test > /data/local/tmp/chrome-command-line'
   

2. In chrome://flags, turn on enable-command-line-on-non-rooted-devices.

3. Force stop Chrome (the relaunch now button will not trigger the reading of the flags file, even though the danger snackbar will disagree).

Verify in chrome://version that this worked.

https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/run-chromium-with-flags#TOC-Android