chrome-launcher

Features

• feat: Support --remote-debugging-pipe by @Rob--W in #347

Changes

• Update --headless=new status docs to post-Chrome 132 by @Piedone in #345
• ci: update upload-artifact action version by @paulirish in #346
• fix: print-chrome-path.js -> print-chrome-path.cjs by @Rob--W in #348

Dep churn

• chore(deps): bump path-to-regexp from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0 by @dependabot in #337
• chore(deps): bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 by @dependabot in #333
• chore(deps): bump path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 by @dependabot in #321
• chore(deps): bump minimatch from 3.0.4 to 3.1.2 by @dependabot in #320

New Contributors

• @Piedone made their first contribution in #345
• @Rob--W made their first contribution in #347

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0

Tagging v1.1.2 retroactively

1.1.1 (#329)

1.1.0 (#322)

• 37609a01 deps: upgrade lighthouse-logger to 2.0.1 (#309)
• dacd3578 Publish as ESM (#302)
• f9e43693 fix: always close file handles to stdout/stderr logs (#259

• 76b6a13c Update logLevel option typing (#295)
• 60044483 Update headless=chrome flag to headless=new (#290)
• b041125a log when connection to existing chrome found for requested port (#291)
• f64a7d89 docs(flags): fix description of mock-keychain flag
• c753ba08 use updating node versions in CI (#286)
• 8d1d85dc docs(flags): adjust grouping. add in several features (#283)
• 471a97c7 flags: disable optimization guide and media router (#282)
• 83f08461 docs(flags): add disable-features=MediaRouter which is surprisingly active
• 346b3c2c rename master branch references to main (#280)
• f618e7e5 docs: a few additions to the flags doc
• c36bd8dc docs: add OptimizationHints to flags
• 1cbf8b9a Make LaunchedChrome.kill sync (#269)

• 3724165a make launcher.kill() synchronous, fs.rm now gets force and maxRetries (#268)
• 3561350a revise taskkill procedure on windows (#267)
• 690ae983 add lighthouse smoketests (windows) to CI (#265)
• 279577fd docs(chrome-flags-for-tools): add link to overview of features (#235)
• ff91c18b fix: use wslpath to resolve Windows paths (#200)
• 30755cde test: run latest versions of node in CI (#257)

• 1af60cb add getChromePath() method for printing found chrome path (#255)

• ba8d76bd fix chrome connection in node 17, use 127.0.0.1 explicitly (#253)
• 56731dd8 fix: forward support for fs.rm in node 14.14+ (#242)

• 630bb77f feat: set browser preferences (#247)
• 12b2c8e3 docs(flags): note that disable-gpu isnt needed

• ac1f4aff move to minimum node 12; remove rimraf (#237)
• dec646c4 deps: remove mkdirp for fs.mkdirSync (#234)
• 83ab178a update minimum node version (#222)
• a5f6eb2f add additional chrome flags (#227)
• 3a7c9610 reword unset-CHROME_PATH error message
• b1b8dc74 rename disabled TranslateUI to Translate to match Chrome (#225)
• beb41360 chore: update dependencies and test targets (#221)
• df9d564a tests: migrate from travis to github actions (#228)
• 673da08b tests: add mac/win bots to ci (#232)
• a700ae0c docs: fix readme's getInstallations() section (#212)
• chrome-flags-for-tools.md update
  • 4b98587d massive update and refactor (#226)
  • e45b100f minor tweaks to headless and others
  • 3a90c21b fix links
  • 8429ca93 add feature flags description
  • 21db5f9f even more documented flags (#231)

• 08406b28 fix: preserve existing getInstallations output
• f3669f45 perf: check default paths first when running on Mac (#209)
• aef94948 docs: update defaultFlags() example for new API (#205)

• 6a5d0c72 flags: disable background tracing (#203)
• d9154291 chore(deps): update typescript and types (#202)
• 88e49686 test: use strict version of assert functions (#201)

• 7c1ea547 deps: bump to is-wsl@2.2.0 (#187)
• 2ae5591d fix: sanitize environment variables used in RegExp (#197)

• bf2957ac deps: update various dependencies (#192)

• 83da1e41 feat: add killAll function (#186)
• b8c89f84 flags: disable the default browser check (#181) (#182)
• 6112555c fix: log taskkill error based on logging opts (#178) (#179)
• 7c935efa docs: add missing quote in README.md example (#180)
• 2e829c7d Skip --disable-setuid-sandbox flag when ignoreDefaultFlags = true (#171)

• 66a5e226 flags: add new --disable flags to reduce noise and disable backgrounding (#170)
  • --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages
  • --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows
  • --disable-renderer-backgrounding
  • --disable-background-timer-throttling
• c4890ee3 feat: expose public interface for locating Chrome installations (#177)
  • Launcher.getInstallations() returns an array of paths to available Chrome binaries
• a5ccaa4e deps: update assorted dependencies (#175)
• e67a10df --disable-translation is now --disable-features=TranslateUI (#167)

• 1928187 fix: prevent mutation of default flags (#162)
• 02a23c2 docs: fix launcher example in README (#160)
• 90dc0e4 update manual-chrome-launcher with fixes from LH

• ec80f0ca tests: drop support for node 9. continue supporting node 8 LTS (#159)
• 4865f3af deps(security): bump mocha to latest (#158)
• e0d2b09b deps(security): bump handlebars from 4.0.11 to 4.1.2 (#157)
• 982be53f update changelog for v0.10.7 and v0.11.0

• a860504f [Breaking change] remove enableExtensions. add ignoreDefaultFlags & defaultFlags() (#124)
• 448a1d48 chrome-finder: Add support for MacOS Catalina (#149)
• 55b891bb deps(is-wsl): add support for WSL 2; drop Node 6 (#152)
• 57e18181 deps: upgrade typescript and ts-node (#155)
• a8848116 deps(security): bump lodash from 4.17.4 to 4.17.11 (#147)
• 0a775dab Document that --enable-automation disables automatic page reloads (#140)
• c9f653e2 Removing dead --safebrowsing-disable-auto-update flag. (#139)
• be12d564 yarn.lock add integrity
• e361aa43 Update changelog.md (#137)

• 55397e0c deps: update yarn.lock from #142
• 179a3f33 silence grep (#138)
• d2f6037a fix: move unneeded ts types to devDeps (#142)
• 984d61ce docs(flags): remove a few flags that are gone.
• 6316362c docs: fix link to chrome-launcher's flags (#128)
• f1f6d162 Update chrome-flags-for-tools.md

• 1328319b fix: set the which command's stdio to pipe (#125)

• 35842ba4 fix: ignore stdio on which call (#121)
• f126c3a0 fix: reject promise on failed kill() (#112)
• 5ee0fde2 Set custom error codes for all errors.
• 841bdf3f Fix picking CHROME_PATH priority over other matches.
• 6b10d748 Fix Travis CI build: GCE for chrome bug (#87)
• d4aa8295 Fix readme's default logLevel (#85)
• 5be71243 Type improvements (#102)
• dd5fdd49 Stricter typing for logLevel (#105)
• c9394cf7 Fix README typo: booelan ==> boolean (#104)
• Update chrome-flags-for-tools.md

• ef91605f Fix TS typing (#82)
• baf2205f tests(travis): test on Node 9, drop testing on Node 7 (#80)

• a5bc8180 Fix getLocalAppDataPath for wsl (#75)
• 70a91885 readme: recommend use of cri with chrome-launcher (#78)
• d3ee63bd folder refactor: ts in /src, js in /dist (#69)

• 449c5238 Expose launched chrome child process object. (#67)
• 0978891c Enable users to pass env vars into spawned chrome. (#66)
• 0261f43b Add document covering the various chrome flags
• 5617473c Make launcher the default export. (#63)
• 483acff5 fix: support alpine linux by retrying grep with -r (#61)
• eaa0bb87 docs: update maxConnectionRetries default to 50 (#58)

• 4cc9c075 New: Add userDataDir flag to use default user profile instead (#48)
• 94137051 Avoid selecting google-emacs (#35)

• 256399c Add support for Windows Subsystem for Linux / BashOnWindows (#27)

• Project moved to its own repo: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher
• 8d0766eb Retry connection for longer (#21)
• 52cb50af only include PROGRAMFILES(X86) if present (#20)
• 530822b9 log pid to kill (#22)
• 1d617ab3 add support for connectionPollInterval and maxConnectionRetries (#19)
• 7474971f Fix errors inside spawnPromise being ignored (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/pull/2939)

• 43baee69 mute any audio (#3028)
• ae6e9551 Better SIGINT handling (#2959)
• 3ab3a117 docs: add changelog to launcher (#2987)

• 494f9911 clarify priority of chromePath options
• 1c11021a add support for finding Chromium on Linux (#2950)
• 391e2043 Publish type definitions instead of source TypeScript files (#2898)
• de408ad3 readme: update example using deprecated LIGHTHOUSE_CHROMIUM_PATH (#2929)
• 8bc6d18e add license file to launcher package. (#2849)

• 37fd38ce pass --enable-extensions on from manual-chrome-launcher (#2735)
• c942d17e support enabling extension loading (#2650)

• 112c2c7f Fix chrome finder on linux/osx when process.env isn't populated (#2687)
• 5728695f Added CHROME_PATH to readme (#2694)
• fedc76a3 test: fix clang-format error (#2691)
• a6bbcaba nuke 'as string'
• 41df647f cli: remove --select-chrome,--skip-autolaunch. Support CHROME_PATH env (#2659)
• 8c9724e2 fix launcher w/ arbitrary flags (#2670)
• 9c0c0788 Expose LHR to modules consuming cli/run.ts (#2654)
• 6df6b0e2 support custom port via chrome-debug binary (#2644)
• 3f143b19 log the specific chrome spawn command.

• ef081063 upgrade rimraf to latest (#2641)

• edbb40d9 fix(driver): move performance observer registration to setupDriver (#2611)