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Does Endpoint Policy Manager Manage Chrome or Edge "Flags"?

Chrome supports command-line switches, also called flags. They allow you to run Chrome with special options that allow you to enable or disable a particular feature by modifying the default functionality.

In this topic we show how to use flags or a command-line switch for Google Chrome with Netwrix Endpoint Policy Manager (formerly PolicyPak) Browser Router.

For a complete list of Chromium command-line switches, see https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/.

Launching a URL in Incognito mode:​

For example, if you want to launch a specific URL under an incognito mode, you need to configure the PPBR rule as shown below.

NOTE: Please note that the syntax %url% is case sensitive.

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NOTE: Please note that Chromium often removes a flag's support or replaces it with ADMX settings.

For example, a command-line to disable Google Translate --disable-translate is not supported anymore and it is replaced with https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#TranslateEnabled.

CAUTION: Command line arguments don't work when the source and target browsers are the same.