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Last active March 28, 2025 20:47
[List of Chromium Command Line Switches] https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ #chrome #lookup

There are lots of command lines which can be used with the Google Chrome browser. Some change behavior of features, others are for debugging or experimenting. This page lists the available switches including their conditions and descriptions. Last automated update occurred on 2018-10-20.

Condition Explanation
-- Report pseudo allocation traces. Pseudo traces are derived from currently active trace events.
--/prefetch:1 /prefetch:# arguments to use when launching various process types. It has been observed that when file reads are consistent for 3 process launches with the same /prefetch:# argument, the Windows prefetcher starts issuing reads in batch at process launch. Because reads depend on the process type, the prefetcher wouldn't be able to observe consistent reads if no /prefetch:# arguments were used. Note that the browser process has no /prefetch:# argument; as such a