Hardware acceleration is enabled by default on my system. I enabled the override anyway, but predictably, it doesn't change anything.
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Override software rendering list
Overrides the built-in software rendering list and enables GPU-acceleration on unsupported system configurations. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#ignore-gpu-blacklist
Experimental canvas features
Enables the use of experimental canvas features which are still in development. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-experimental-canvas-features
Accelerated 2D canvas
Enables the use of the GPU to perform 2d canvas rendering instead of using software rendering. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-accelerated-2d-canvas
Display list 2D canvas
Enables the use of display lists to record 2D canvas commands. This allows 2D canvas rasterization to be performed on separate thread. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-display-list-2d-canvas
Composited render layer borders
Renders a border around composited Render Layers to help debug and study layer compositing. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#composited-layer-borders
GL composited overlay candidate quad borders
Renders a border around GL composited overlay candidate quads to help debug and study overlay support. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#gl-composited-overlay-candidate-quad-borders
Show overdraw feedback
Visualize overdraw by color-coding elements based on if they have other elements drawn underneath. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#show-overdraw-feedback
Enable draw occlusion
Enable the system to use draw occlusion to skip draw quads when they are not shown on the screen. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-draw-occlusion
Partial swap
Sets partial swap behavior. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#ui-disable-partial-swap
Prevent layer squashing
When enabled, the compositor will avoid combining composited layers in more situations. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-prevent-layer-squashing
Negotiation with GCM cipher suites for SRTP in WebRTC
When enabled, WebRTC will try to negotiate GCM cipher suites for SRTP. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-webrtc-srtp-aes-gcm
Negotiation with encrypted header extensions for SRTP in WebRTC
When enabled, WebRTC will try to negotiate encrypted header extensions for SRTP. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-webrtc-srtp-encrypted-headers
WebRTC Stun origin header
When enabled, Stun messages generated by WebRTC will contain the Origin header. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-webrtc-stun-origin
WebRTC Echo Canceller 3.
Experimental WebRTC echo canceller (AEC3). – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#WebRtcUseEchoCanceller3
Native Client
Support Native Client for all web applications, even those that were not installed from the Chrome Web Store. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-nacl
Native Client GDB-based debugging
Enable GDB debug stub. This will stop a Native Client application on startup and wait for nacl-gdb (from the NaCl SDK) to attach to it. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-nacl-debug
Force PNaCl Subzero
Force the use of PNaCl's fast Subzero translator for all pexe files. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#force-pnacl-subzero
Restrict Native Client GDB-based debugging by pattern
Restricts Native Client application GDB-based debugging by URL of manifest file. Native Client GDB-based debugging must be enabled for this option to work. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#nacl-debug-mask
Experimental Extension APIs
Enables experimental extension APIs. Note that the extension gallery doesn't allow you to upload extensions that use experimental APIs. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#extension-apis
Extensions on chrome:// URLs
Enables running extensions on chrome:// URLs, where extensions explicitly request this permission. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#extensions-on-chrome-urls
Fast tab/window close
Enables fast tab/window closing - runs a tab's onunload js handler independently of the GUI. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-fast-unload
New history entries require a user gesture.
Require a user gesture to add a history entry. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-history-entry-requires-user-gesture
Hyperlink auditing
Sends hyperlink auditing pings. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-hyperlink-auditing
Show Autofill predictions
Annotates web forms with Autofill field type predictions as placeholder text. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#show-autofill-type-predictions
Smooth Scrolling
Animate smoothly when scrolling page content. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#smooth-scrolling
Overlay Scrollbars
Enable the experimental overlay scrollbars implementation. You must also enable threaded compositing to have the scrollbars animate. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#overlay-scrollbars
Flash Overlay Scrollbars After Any Scroll Update
Flash Overlay Scrollbars After any scroll update happends in page. You must also enable Overlay Scrollbars. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#overlay-scrollbars-flash-after-scroll-update
Flash Overlay Scrollbars When Mouse Enter
Flash Overlay Scrollbars When Mouse Enter a scrollable area. You must also enable Overlay Scrollbars. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#overlay-scrollbars-flash-when-mouse-enter
Save Page as MHTML
Enables saving pages as MHTML: a single text file containing HTML and all sub-resources. – Mac, Windows, Linux
#save-page-as-mhtml
MHTML Generation Option
Provides experimental options for MHTML file generator. – Mac, Windows, Linux
#mhtml-generator-option
Experimental QUIC protocol
Enable experimental QUIC protocol support. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-quic
Latest stable JavaScript features
Some web pages use legacy or non-standard JavaScript extensions that may conflict with the latest JavaScript features. This flag allows disabling support of those features for compatibility with such pages. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-javascript-harmony-shipping
Experimental JavaScript
Enable web pages to use experimental JavaScript features. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-javascript-harmony
Experimental Validate Asm.js and convert to WebAssembly when valid.
Validate Asm.js when "use asm" is present and then convert to WebAssembly. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-asm-webassembly
WebAssembly structured cloning support.
Enable web pages to use WebAssembly structured cloning. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-webassembly
WebAssembly streaming compile/instantiate support.
WebAssembly.{compile|instantiate} taking a Response as parameter. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-webassembly-streaming
Experimental enabled SharedArrayBuffer support in JavaScript.
Enable SharedArrayBuffer support in JavaScript. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#shared-array-buffer
Future V8 VM features
This enables upcoming and experimental V8 VM features. This flag does not enable experimental JavaScript features. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-future-v8-vm-features
3D software rasterizer
Fall back to a 3D software rasterizer when the GPU cannot be used. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-software-rasterizer
GPU rasterization
Use GPU to rasterize web content. Requires impl-side painting. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-gpu-rasterization
GPU rasterization MSAA sample count.
Specify the number of MSAA samples for GPU rasterization. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#gpu-rasterization-msaa-sample-count
Experimental Web Platform features
Enables experimental Web Platform features that are in development. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-experimental-web-platform-features
Developer Tools experiments
Enables Developer Tools experiments. Use Settings panel in Developer Tools to toggle individual experiments. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-devtools-experiments
Silent Debugging
Do not show the infobar when an extension attaches to a page via chrome.debugger API. This is required to debug extension background pages. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#silent-debugger-extension-api
Scroll prediction
Predicts the finger's future position during scrolls allowing time to render the frame before the finger is there. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-scroll-prediction
UI Layout for the browser's top chrome
Toggles between normal and touch (formerly "hybrid") layouts. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#top-chrome-md
Site settings with All sites and Site details
Adds new ways of viewing Site settings. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-site-settings
Material Design in the rest of the browser's native UI
Extends the --top-chrome-md setting to secondary UI (bubbles, dialogs, etc.). On Mac, this enables MacViews, which uses toolkit-views for native browser dialogs. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#secondary-ui-md
Touch Events API
Force Touch Events API feature detection to always be enabled or disabled, or to be enabled when a touchscreen is detected on startup (Automatic, the default). – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#touch-events
Touch adjustment
Refine the position of a touch gesture in order to compensate for touches having poor resolution compared to a mouse. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-touch-adjustment
NaCl Socket API.
Allows applications to use NaCl Socket API. Use only to test NaCl plugins. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#allow-nacl-socket-api
Debugging for packed apps
Enables debugging context menu options such as Inspect Element for packed applications. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#debug-packed-apps
Password generation
Allow the user to have Chrome generate passwords when it detects account creation pages. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-password-generation
Enable username correction
While on the pending password state, add an edit button to the bubble so that user can edit the username. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-username-correction
Force-saving of passwords
Allow the user to manually enforce password saving instead of relying on password manager's heuristics. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-password-force-saving
Manual password generation.
Show a 'Generate Password' option on the context menu for all password fields. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-manual-password-generation
Show autofill signatures.
Annotates web forms with Autofill signatures as HTML attributes. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-show-autofill-signatures
Affiliation based matching in password manager
Allow credentials stored for Android applications to be filled into corresponding websites. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#affiliation-based-matching
Use Google Payments sandbox servers
For developers: use the sandbox service for Google Payments API calls. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#wallet-service-use-sandbox
Overscroll history navigation
Experimental history navigation in response to horizontal overscroll. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#overscroll-history-navigation
Overscroll start threshold
Changes overscroll start threshold relative to the default value. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#overscroll-start-threshold
Pull-to-refresh gesture
Pull-to-refresh gesture in response to vertical overscroll. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#pull-to-refresh
Enable navigation tracing
This is to be used in conjunction with the trace-upload-url flag. WARNING: When enabled, Chrome will record performance data for every navigation and upload it to the URL specified by the trace-upload-url flag. The trace may include personally identifiable information (PII) such as the titles and URLs of websites you visit. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-navigation-tracing
Trace label for navigation tracing
This is to be used in conjunction with the enable-navigation-tracing flag. Please select the label that best describes the recorded traces. This will choose the destination the traces are uploaded to. If you are not sure, select other. If left empty, no traces will be uploaded. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#trace-upload-url
Service worker script streaming.
Installed scripts for a service worker are sent over a dedicated message pipe and data pipes, and that is never be blocked on the main thread. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-service-worker-script-streaming
Service worker script full code cache.
Generate V8 full code cache of Service Worker scripts while installing. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-service-worker-script-full-code-cache
Enable PWA full code cache
Generate V8 code cache in Cache Storage while installing Service Worker for PWAs. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-pwa-full-code-cache
Substring matching for Autofill suggestions
Match Autofill suggestions based on substrings (token prefixes) rather than just prefixes. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-suggestions-with-substring-match
LCD text antialiasing
If disabled, text is rendered with grayscale antialiasing instead of LCD (subpixel) when doing accelerated compositing. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#lcd-text-aa
Google Payments card saving checkbox
Show the checkbox to offer local saving of a credit card downloaded from the server. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-offer-store-unmasked-wallet-cards
Offline Auto-Reload Mode
Pages that fail to load while the browser is offline will be auto-reloaded when the browser is online again. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-offline-auto-reload
Only Auto-Reload Visible Tabs
Pages that fail to load while the browser is offline will only be auto-reloaded if their tab is visible. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-offline-auto-reload-visible-only
Show Saved Copy Button
When a page fails to load, if a stale copy of the page exists in the browser cache, a button will be presented to allow the user to load that stale copy. The primary enabling choice puts the button in the most salient position on the error page; the secondary enabling choice puts it secondary to the reload button. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#show-saved-copy
Default tile width
Specify the default tile width. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#default-tile-width
Default tile height
Specify the default tile height. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#default-tile-height
Simple Cache for HTTP
The Simple Cache for HTTP is a new cache. It relies on the filesystem for disk space allocation. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-simple-cache-backend
TCP Fast Open
Enable the option to send extra authentication information in the initial SYN packet for a previously connected client, allowing faster data send start. – Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-tcp-fast-open
Device Discovery Notifications
Device discovery notifications on local network. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#device-discovery-notifications
Print Preview Registration Promos
Enable registering unregistered cloud printers from print preview. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-print-preview-register-promos
Spelling Feedback Field Trial
Enable the field trial for sending user feedback to spelling service. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-spelling-feedback-field-trial
WebGL Draft Extensions
Enabling this option allows web applications to access the WebGL Extensions that are still in draft status. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-webgl-draft-extensions
Identity consistency between browser and cookie jar
When enabled, the browser manages signing in and out of Google accounts. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#account-consistency
Zero-copy rasterizer
Raster threads write directly to GPU memory associated with tiles. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-zero-copy
Translate 2016Q2 UI
Improved triggering logic and look for Translate Bubble UI – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#translate-2016q2-ui
Enforce TranslateRanker decisions
Improved Translate UI triggering logic. TranslateRanker decides whether or not Translate UI should be triggered in a given context. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#translate-ranker-enforcement
Enable native notifications.
Enable support for using the native notification toasts and notification center on platforms where these are available. – Mac, Linux
#enable-native-notifications
In-Product Help Demo Mode
Selects the In-Product Help demo mode. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#in-product-help-demo-mode-choice
Number of raster threads
Specify the number of raster threads. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#num-raster-threads
Permission Action Reporting
Enables permission action reporting to Safe Browsing servers for opted in users. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-permission-action-reporting
Permissions Blacklist
Enables the Permissions Blacklist, which blocks permissions for blacklisted sites for Safe Browsing users. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-permissions-blacklist
Single-click autofill
Make autofill suggestions on initial mouse click on a form element. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-single-click-autofill
Cast Streaming hardware video encoding
This option enables support in Cast Streaming for encoding video streams using platform hardware. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-cast-streaming-hw-encoding
Threaded scrolling
Threaded handling of scroll-related input events. Disabling this will force all such scroll events to be handled on the main thread. Note that this can dramatically hurt scrolling performance of most websites and is intended for testing purposes only. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-threaded-scrolling
Distance field text
Text is rendered with signed distance fields rather than bitmap alpha masks. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#distance-field-text
Extension Content Verification
This flag can be used to turn on verification that the contents of the files on disk for extensions from the webstore match what they're expected to be. This can be used to turn on this feature if it would not otherwise have been turned on, but cannot be used to turn it off (because this setting can be tampered with by malware). – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#extension-content-verification
User consent for extension scripts
Require user consent for an extension running a script on the page, if the extension requested permission to run on all urls. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#extension-active-script-permission
Embedded extension options
Display extension options as an embedded element in chrome://extensions rather than opening a new tab. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-embedded-extension-options
New style notification
Enables the experiment style of material-design notification – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-message-center-new-style-notification
Enable policy management page
If enabled, the chrome://policy-tool URL loads a page for managing policies. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-policy-tool
Memory coordinator
Enable memory coordinator instead of memory pressure listeners. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-memory-coordinator
Tab audio muting UI control
When enabled, the audio indicators in the tab strip double as tab audio mute controls. This also adds commands in the tab context menu for quickly muting multiple selected tabs. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-tab-audio-muting
Reduce default 'referer' header granularity.
If a page hasn't set an explicit referrer policy, setting this flag will reduce the amount of information in the 'referer' header for cross-origin requests. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#reduced-referrer-granularity
Mark non-secure origins as non-secure
Change the UI treatment for HTTP pages – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#mark-non-secure-as
Show in-form warnings for sensitive fields when the top-level page is not HTTPS
Attaches a warning UI to any password or credit card fields detected when the top-level page is not HTTPS – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-http-form-warning
Committed Interstitials
Use committed error pages instead of transient navigation entries for interstitial error pages (e.g. certificate errors). – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#committed-interstitials
Strict site isolation
Highly experimental security mode that ensures each renderer process contains pages from at most one site. In this mode, out-of-process iframes will be used whenever an iframe is cross-site. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-site-per-process
Top document isolation
Highly experimental performance mode where cross-site iframes are kept in a separate process from the top document. In this mode, iframes from different third-party sites will be allowed to share a process. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-top-document-isolation
Use Blink's zoom for device scale factor.
If enabled, Blink uses its zooming mechanism to scale content for device scale factor. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-use-zoom-for-dsf
Use an alternative Data Saver back end configuration.
Enable a different approach to saving data by configuring the back end server – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-data-reduction-proxy-server-experiment
Client-side Lo-Fi previews
Enable showing low fidelity images on some pages on slow networks. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-client-lo-fi
NoScript previews
Enable disabling JavaScript on some pages on slow networks. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-noscript-previews
Optimization Hints
Enable the Optimization Hints feature which incorporates server hintsinto decisions for what optimizations to perform on some pages on slow networks. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-optimization-hints
Allow invalid certificates for resources loaded from localhost.
Allows requests to localhost over HTTPS even when an invalid certificate is presented. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#allow-insecure-localhost
App Banners
Enable the display of Progressive Web App banners, which prompt a user to add a web app to their shelf, or other platform-specific equivalent. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-app-banners
Experimental app banners
Enables a new experimental app banner flow and UI. Implies #enable-app-banners. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-experimental-app-banners
Bypass user engagement checks
Bypasses user engagement checks for displaying app banners, such as requiring that users have visited the site before and that the banner hasn't been shown recently. This allows developers to test that other eligibility requirements for showing app banners, such as having a manifest, are met. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#bypass-app-banner-engagement-checks
Desktop PWAs
Experimental windowing and install banner treatment for Progressive Web Apps on desktop platforms. Implies #enable-experimental-app-banners. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-desktop-pwas
Use Chrome Sync sandbox
Connects to the testing server for Chrome Sync. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#use-sync-sandbox
Load Media Router Component Extension
Loads the Media Router component extension at startup. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#load-media-router-component-extension
Gamepad Extensions
Enabling this option allows web applications to access experimental extensions to the Gamepad APIs. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-gamepad-extensions
WebVR
Allow web applications to access experimental Virtual Reality APIs. Warning: Enabling this will also allow WebVR content on insecure origins to access these powerful APIs, and may pose a security risk. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-webvr
WebVR experimental rendering optimizations
Experimental rendering path optimizations for WebVR. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#webvr-experimental-rendering
V8 caching mode.
Caching mode for the V8 JavaScript engine. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#v8-cache-options
Simplified full screen / mouse lock UI.
A simplified new user experience when entering page-triggered full screen or mouse pointer lock states. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#simplified-fullscreen-ui
Experimental keyboard lock UI.
An experimental full screen with keyboard lock mode requiring users to hold Esc to exit. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#experimental-keyboard-lock-ui
Save Previous Document Resources
Saves an old document's cached resources until the specified point in the next document's lifecycle. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#save-previous-document-resources-until
Block scripts loaded via document.write
Disallows fetches for third-party parser-blocking scripts inserted into the main frame via document.write. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disallow-doc-written-script-loads
Enable Push API background mode
Enable background mode for the Push API. This allows Chrome to continue running after the last window is closed, and to launch at OS startup, if the Push API needs it. – Mac, Windows, Linux
#enable-push-api-background-mode
Enable offering upload of Autofilled credit cards
Enables a new option to upload credit cards to Google Payments for sync to all Chrome devices. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-autofill-credit-card-upload
Enable Material Design bookmarks
If enabled, the chrome://bookmarks/ URL loads the Material Design bookmarks page. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-md-bookmarks
SafeSearch URLs reporting.
If enabled, inappropriate URLs can be reported back to SafeSearch. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#safe-search-url-reporting
Force UI direction
Explicitly force the UI to left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL) mode, overriding the default direction of the UI language. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#force-ui-direction
Force text direction
Explicitly force the per-character directionality of UI text to left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL) mode, overriding the default direction of the character language. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#force-text-direction
Enable Material Design extensions
If enabled, the chrome://extensions/ URL loads the Material Design extensions page. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-md-extensions
Enable Input IME API
Enable the use of chrome.input.ime API. – Windows, Linux
#enable-input-ime-api
Origin Trials
Enables origin trials for controlling access to feature/API experiments. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-origin-trials
Brotli Content-Encoding.
Enable Brotli Content-Encoding support. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-brotli
Image Capture API
Enables the Web Platform Image Capture API: takePhoto(), getPhotoCapabilities(), etc. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-image-capture-api
TLS 1.3
Sets the TLS 1.3 variant used. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#tls13-variant
Token Binding.
Enable Token Binding support. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-token-binding
Scroll Anchoring
Adjusts scroll position to prevent visible jumps when offscreen content changes. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-scroll-anchoring
Disable Audio For Desktop Share
With this flag on, desktop share picker window will not let the user choose whether to share audio. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-audio-support-for-desktop-share
Disable Desktop Share with tab source
This flag controls whether users can choose a tab for desktop share. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#tab-for-desktop-share
User Activation v2
Enable simple user activation for APIs that are otherwise controlled by user gesture tokens. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#user-activation-v2
WebRTC H.264 software video encoder/decoder
When enabled, an H.264 software video encoder/decoder pair is included. If a hardware encoder/decoder is also available it may be used instead of this encoder/decoder. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-webrtc-h264-with-openh264-ffmpeg
Autofill sync credential
How the password manager handles autofill for the sync credential. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#protect-sync-credential
Autofill sync credential only for transactional reauth pages
How the password manager handles autofill for the sync credential only for transactional reauth pages. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#protect-sync-credential-on-reauth
Password export
Export functionality in password settings. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#password-export
Password import
Import functionality in password settings. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#password-import
Google branding in the context menu
Shows a Google icon next to context menu items powered by Google services. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-google-branded-context-menu
Important sites options in clear browsing data dialog
Include the option to whitelist important sites in the clear browsing data dialog. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#important-sites-in-cbd
Enable tabs for the Clear Browsing Data dialog.
Enables a basic and an advanced tab for the Clear Browsing Data dialog. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#tabs-in-cbd
Passive Event Listener Override
Forces touchstart, touchmove, mousewheel and wheel event listeners (which haven't requested otherwise) to be treated as passive. This will break touch/wheel behavior on some websites but is useful for demonstrating the potential performance benefits of adopting passive event listeners. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#passive-listener-default
Document Level Event Listeners Passive Default
Forces touchstart, and touchmove event listeners on document level targets (which haven't requested otherwise) to be treated as passive. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#document-passive-event-listeners
Touch Event Listeners Passive Default During Fling
Forces touchstart, and first touchmove per scroll event listeners during fling to be treated as passive. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#passive-event-listeners-due-to-fling
FontCache scaling
Reuse a cached font in the renderer to serve different sizes of font for faster layout. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-font-cache-scaling
Framebusting requires same-origin or a user gesture
Don't permit an iframe to navigate the top level browsing context unless they are same-origin or the iframe is processing a user gesture. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-framebusting-needs-sameorigin-or-usergesture
Requiring user gesture for the Vibration API
Block the Vibration API if no user gesture has been received on the frame or any embedded frame. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#vibrate-requires-user-gesture
Web Payments
Enable Web Payments API integration, a JavaScript API for merchants. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#web-payments
Enable web payment modifiers
If the website provides modifiers in the payment request, show the custom total for each payment instrument, update the shopping cart when instruments are switched, and send modified payment method specific data to the payment app. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#web-payments-modifiers
Service Worker payment apps
Enable Service Worker applications to integrate as payment apps – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#service-worker-payment-apps
Fill passwords on account selection
Filling of passwords when an account is explicitly selected by the user rather than autofilling credentials on page load. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#fill-on-account-select
New audio rendering mixing strategy
Use the new audio rendering mixing strategy. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Android
#new-audio-rendering-mixing-strategy
Optimize background video playback.
Disable video tracks when the video is played in the background to optimize performance. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#disable-background-video-track
Enable the new remote playback pipeline.
Enable the new pipeline for playing media element remotely via RemotePlayback API or native controls. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-new-remote-playback-pipeline
Enable the use of SurfaceLayer objects for videos.
Enable compositing onto a Surface instead of a VideoLayer for videos. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-surfaces-for-videos
Task Scheduler
Enables redirection of some task posting APIs to the task scheduler. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#browser-task-scheduler
Feature Policy
Enables granting and removing access to features through the Feature-Policy HTTP header. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-feature-policy
Generic Sensor
Enables motion sensor classes based on Generic Sensor API, i.e. Accelerometer, LinearAccelerationSensor, Gyroscope, AbsoluteOrientationSensor and RelativeOrientationSensor interfaces. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-generic-sensor
Generic Sensor Extra Classes
Enables an extra set of sensor classes based on Generic Sensor API, which expose previously unavailable platform features, i.e. AmbientLightSensor and Magnetometer interfaces. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-generic-sensor-extra-classes
Throttle expensive background timers
Enables intervention to limit CPU usage of background timers to 1%. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#expensive-background-timer-throttling
Manage audio focus across tabs
Manage audio focus across tabs to improve the audio mixing. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-audio-focus
Enable new Print Preview UI
If enabled, Print Preview will display a newer UI – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-new-print-preview
Print Pdf as Image
If enabled, an option to print PDF files as images will be available in print preview. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#print-pdf-as-image
Cross process frames for guests
Highly experimental where guests such as <webview> are implemented on the out-of-process iframe infrastructure. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#cross-process-guests
Media Remoting during Cast Tab Mirroring
When Casting a tab to a remote device, enabling this turns on an optimization that forwards the content bitstream directly to the remote device when a video is fullscreened. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#media-remoting
No-State Prefetch
"No-State Prefetch" pre-downloads resources to improve load times. "Prerender" does a full pre-rendering of the page, to improve load times even more. "Simple Load" does nothing and is similar to disabling the feature, but collects more metrics for comparison purposes. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-nostate-prefetch
Display the last used date of a credit card in autofill.
If enabled, display the last used date of a credit card in autofill. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-autofill-credit-card-last-used-date-display
Enable requesting missing CVC during Autofill credit card upload
If enabled, requests missing CVC when offering to upload credit cards to Google Payments. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-autofill-credit-card-upload-cvc-prompt
Show Google Logo for Autofill credit card upload
If enabled, displays the Google logo in the save prompt when offering to upload credit cards to Google Payments. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-autofill-credit-card-upload-google-logo
Enable updated UI for Autofill credit card upload
If enabled, displays a new save card bubble/infobar design when offering to upload credit cards to Google Payments. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-autofill-credit-card-upload-new-ui
Credit card autofill ablation experiment.
If enabled, credit card autofill suggestions will not display. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-autofill-credit-card-ablation-experiment
Display the issuer bank name of a credit card in autofill.
If enabled, displays the issuer bank name of a credit card in autofill. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-autofill-credit-card-bank-name-display
Enable autofill sending billing customer number when calling Google Payments
If enabled, autofill sends billing customer number when calling Google Payments. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-autofill-send-billing-customer-number
Experimental contextual omnibox suggestion
Change omnibox contextual suggestions to an experimental source. Note that this is not an on/off switch for contextual omnibox and it only applies to suggestions provided before the user starts typing a URL or a search query (i.e. zero suggest). – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-zero-suggest-redirect-to-chrome
Render bidirectional URLs from left to right
An experimental Bidi URL rendering algorithm where the URL components are always shown in order from left to right, regardless of any RTL characters. (The contents of each component are still rendered with the normal Bidi algorithm.) – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#left-to-right-urls
Omnibox entity suggestions
Enable receiving entity suggestions - disambiguation descriptions - for Omnibox suggestions. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-entity-suggestions
Omnibox tail suggestions
Enable receiving tail suggestions, a type of search suggestion based on the last few words in the query, for the Omnibox. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-tail-suggestions
Omnibox tab switch suggestions
Enable suggestions for switching to open tabs within the Omnibox. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-tab-switch-suggestions
Enable the New App Menu Icon
Use the new app menu icon with update notification animations. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-new-app-menu-icon
Speculative Prefetch
"Speculative Prefetch" fetches likely resources early to improve load times, based on a local database (see chrome://predictors). "Learning" means that only the database construction is enabled, "Prefetching" that learning and prefetching are enabled. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-resource-prefetch
Off-main-thread fetch for Web Workers
If enabled, the resource fetches from worker threads will not be blocked by the busy main thread. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-off-main-thread-fetch
Enable speculative start of a service worker when a search is predicted.
If enabled, when the user enters text in the omnibox that looks like a a query, any service worker associated with the search engine the query will be sent to is started early. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-speculative-service-worker-start-on-query-input
Use Mojo IPC for resource loading
Use Mojo IPC instead of traditional Chrome IPC for resource loading. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-mojo-loading
Fetch API keepalive timeout setting
This is for setting the timeout value for Fetch API with keepalive option and SendBeacon – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-fetch-keepalive-timeout-setting
Renderer side ResourceScheduler
Migrate some ResourceScheduler functionalities to renderer – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-renderer-side-resource-scheduler
Memory ablation experiment
Allocates extra memory in the browser process. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#memory-ablation
Pause background tabs
Pause timers in background tabs after 5 minutes on desktop. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#pause-background-tabs
Include title for the current URL in the omnibox
In the event that the omnibox provides suggestions on-focus, the URL of the current page is provided as the first suggestion without a title. Enabling this flag causes the title to be displayed. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#omnibox-display-title-for-current-url
Force color profile
Forces Chrome to use a specific color profile instead of the color of the window's current monitor, as specified by the operating system. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#force-color-profile
Autoplay policy
Policy used when deciding if audio or video is allowed to autoplay. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#autoplay-policy
Override effective connection type
Overrides the effective connection type of the current connection returned by the network quality estimator. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#force-effective-connection-type
Heap profiling
Enables heap profiling. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-heap-profiling
Out of process heap profiling.
Creates a profiling service that records stacktraces for all live, malloced objects. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#memlog
Omnibox UI Elide Suggestion URL After Host
Elides the path, query, and ref of suggested URLs in the Omnibox dropdown. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#omnibox-ui-elide-suggestion-url-after-host
Omnibox UI Hide Suggestion URL Scheme
Elides the schemes of suggested URLs in the Omnibox dropdown. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#omnibox-ui-hide-suggestion-url-scheme
Omnibox UI Hide Suggestion URL Trivial Subdomains
Elides trivially informative subdomains from suggested URLs in the Omnibox dropdown (e.g. www. and m.). – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#omnibox-ui-hide-suggestion-url-trivial-subdomains
Omnibox UI Show Suggestion Favicons
Shows favicons instead of generic vector icons for URL suggestions in the Omnibox dropdown. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-ui-show-suggestion-favicons
Omnibox UI Max Autocomplete Matches
Changes the maximum number of autocomplete matches displayed in the Omnibox UI. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-ui-max-autocomplete-matches
Omnibox UI Vertical Layout
Displays Omnibox sugestions in 2 lines - title over origin. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-ui-vertical-layout
Omnibox UI Narrow Dropdown
Makes the suggestions dropdown width match the omnibox width. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-ui-narrow-dropdown
Omnibox UI Vertical Margin
Changes the vertical margin in the Omnibox UI. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-ui-vertical-margin
Omnibox UI Swap Title and URL
In the omnibox dropdown, shows titles before URLs when both are available. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#omnibox-ui-swap-title-and-url
Disable minimum for server-side tile suggestions on NTP.
Request server-side suggestions even if there are only very few of them and use them for tiles on the New Tab Page. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#use-suggestions-even-if-few
Use new Accept-Language header
Adds the base language code after other corresponding language+region codes. This ensures that users receive content in their preferred language. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#use-new-accept-language-header
Enable using the Google local NTP
Use the local New Tab page if Google is the default search engine. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#use-google-local-ntp
Enable the OneGoogleBar on the local NTP
Show a OneGoogleBar on the local New Tab page if Google is the default search engine. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#one-google-bar-on-local-ntp
Enable picture in picture.
Enable the picture in picture feature for videos. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-picture-in-picture
Navigation response using Mojo
Browser side navigation (aka PlzNavigate) is using blob URLs to deliver the body of the main resource to the renderer process. This flag replaces this mechanism by using a Mojo DataPipe. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#navigation-mojo-response
Experimental fullscreen exit UI
Displays experimental UI to allow mouse and touch input methods to exit fullscreen mode. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-experimental-fullscreen-exit-ui
Enable network service
Enables the network service, which makes network requests through a separate service. Note: most features don't work with this yet. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#network-service
Out of blink CORS
CORS handling logic is moved out of blink. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#out-of-blink-cors
Keep a renderer alive for keepalive fetch requests
Keep a render process alive when the process has a pending fetch request with `keepalive' specified. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#keep-alive-renderer-for-keepalive-requests
Use new ddljson API for Doodles
Enables the new ddljson API to fetch Doodles for the NTP. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#use-ddljson-api
Use the resource load scheduler
Uses the resource load scheduler in blink to schedule and throttle resource load requests. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-resource-load-scheduler
AsyncImageDecoding
Enables asynchronous decoding of images from raster for web content – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-async-image-decoding
Capture page thumbnail on navigating away
Capture a page thumbnail (for use on the New Tab page) when navigating away from the current page, in addition to other times a thumbnail may be captured. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#capture-thumbnail-on-navigating-away
Manual fallbacks for password manager forms filling
If enabled, then if user clicks on the password field on a form, popup might contain generation fallbacks or 'Show all saved passwords' fallback. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-manual-fallbacks-filling
Enable Voice Search on the local NTP
Show a microphone for voice search on the local New Tab page if Google is the default search engine. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#voice-search-on-local-ntp
Click to open embedded PDFs
When the PDF plugin is unavailable, show a click-to-open placeholder for embedded PDFs. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#click-to-open-pdf
Manual password saving.
Show the password manager icon when typing into a password filed. Clicking it allows to save the password without submitting the form. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-manual-password-saving
Remove usage of the deprecated GAIA sign-in endpoint
The Gaia sign-in endpoint used for full-tab sign-in page is deprecated. This flags controls wheter it should no longer be used during a sign-in flow. – Mac, Windows, Linux
#remove-deprecared-gaia-signin-endpoint
Enable doodles on the local NTP
Show doodles on the local New Tab page if Google is the default search engine. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#doodles-on-local-ntp
Sound content setting
Enable site-wide muting in content settings and tab strip context menu. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#sound-content-setting
Enable ECMAScript 6 modules dynamic import
Enables ECMAScript 6 modules dynamic "import" syntax support in V8 and Blink. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-module-scripts-dynamic-import
Use a snapshot to create V8 contexts.
Sets to use a snapshot to create V8 contexts in frame creation. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-v8-context-snapshot
Parallel downloading
Enable parallel downloading to accelerate download speed. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-parallel-downloading
Password selection and eye icon in prompt
Show a password selector and an eye icon in prompt – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#enable-password-selection
HTML-based username detector
Use HTML-based username detector for the password manager. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-html-base-username-detector
Enable new preconnect predictor
Enable the new implementation of preconnect and DNS preresolve. "Learning" means that only database construction is enabled, "Preconnect" enables both learning and preconnect and disables the existing implementation. "No preconnect" disables both implementations. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-new-preconnect
Icons on Media Controls Overflow Menu
Displays icons on the overflow menu of the native media controls – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-overflow-icons-for-media-controls
Top Sites from Site Engagement
Enable Top Sites on the New Tab Page to be sourced and sorted using site engagement. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#top-sites-from-site-engagement
Enable NTLMv2 Authentication
Enable NTLMv2 HTTP Authentication. This disables NTLMv1 support. – Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-ntlm-v2
Enable ECMAScript 6 modules import.meta.url
Enables ECMAScript 6 modules import.meta.url syntax support in V8 and Blink. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-module-scripts-import-meta-url
Experimental tab controller.
Enable controller for highly experimental tab policies. – Windows, Linux
#experimental-tab-controller
Clipboard content setting
Enables a site-wide permission in the UI which controls access to the asynchronous clipboard web API – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#clipboard-content-setting
New Media Controls
Enables the new style native media controls. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-modern-media-controls
Enable network logging to file
Enables network logging to a file named netlog.json in the user data directory. The file can be imported into chrome://net-internals. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-network-logging-to-file
Wheel Scroll Latching.
Wheel scroll latching enforces latching to a single element for the duration of a scroll sequence. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
#enable-wheel-scroll-latching