msedge chromium headless very chatty, where is the options

[mortenb123]

Where can I find the settings to make msedgedriver.exe less chatty in headless mode? is it compiled in debug mode? Really like to turn it off.

I use the following driver settings with python:

        elif os.environ['WEBDRIVER'] == 'Edge':
            options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
            options.add_argument('--disable-infobars')
            options.binary_location = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe"
            driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path="msedgedriver.exe")
        elif os.environ['WEBDRIVER'] == 'EdgeHeadless':
            options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
            options.add_argument('--headless')
            options.binary_location = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe"
            driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path="msedgedriver.exe")

here is the output, the first is edge chromium non headless, while the 2nd is edge chromium headless

/c/SharedArea/drivers/msedgedriver

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:58082/devtools/browser/e50c2d9c-a27f-4458-9975-d51eab72cf08
20200122-111127|INFO|C:\dist\work\selenium-allbrowsers\tools\seleniumtools.py:23|screenshot: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> -> Edge-screen.png
/c/SharedArea/drivers/msedgedriver

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:58176/devtools/browser/167d0fc4-9100-4b0f-b27f-274356543993
[0122/111145.432:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "Images loaded lazily and replaced with placeholders. Load events are deferred. See <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2048113" target="_blank">https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2048113</a>", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
[0122/111145.434:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "An <img> element was lazyloaded with loading=lazy, but had no dimensions specified. Specifying dimensions improves performance. See <a href="https://crbug.com/954323" target="_blank">https://crbug.com/954323</a>", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
[0122/111145.773:INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "AST library loaded: 0.27.1", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/vgc/cdn/js/libs/ast/0.27.1/ast.js" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/vgc/cdn/js/libs/ast/0.27.1/ast.js</a> (1)
[0122/111146.188:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <a href="http://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">http://www.vg.no/</a> was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A future release of Microsoft Edge will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None`. You can review cookies in 
developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592</a> and <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032</a>.", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
[0122/111146.194:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "A cookie associated with a resource at <a href="http://adnxs.com/" target="_blank">http://adnxs.com/</a> was set with `SameSite=None` but without `Secure`. A future release of Microsoft Edge will only deliver cookies marked `SameSite=None` if they are also marked `Secure`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032</a>.", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
[0122/111147.152:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <a href="http://acdn.adnxs.com/" target="_blank">http://acdn.adnxs.com/</a> was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A future release of Microsoft Edge will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592</a> and <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032</a>.", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
[0122/111147.289:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "A cookie associated with a resource at <a href="http://doubleclick.net/" target="_blank">http://doubleclick.net/</a> was set with `SameSite=None` but without `Secure`. A future release of Microsoft Edge will only deliver cookies marked `SameSite=None` if they are also marked `Secure`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032</a>.", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
[0122/111147.455:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <a href="http://adnxs.com/" target="_blank">http://adnxs.com/</a> was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A future release of Microsoft Edge will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None`. You can review cookies in 
developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592</a> and <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032</a>.", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
[0122/111147.875:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "anx-mediation %cCONTINUE color: orange", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111147.910:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "anx-mediation:  INIT --", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111148.231:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "anx-mediation:  NOBID 628ms", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111148.250:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "console.groupEnd", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111148.381:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "anx-mediation: %cCONTINUE %ccreative ids 131072012 color: orange color: black", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111148.521:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "anx-mediation:  CONTINUE 628ms", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111148.522:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "console.groupEnd", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111148.523:INFO:CONSOLE(2)] "console.groupEnd", source: <a href="https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js" target="_blank">https://acdn.adnxs.com/ast/mediation/0.27.1/mediation.js</a> (2)
[0122/111148.565:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <a href="http://track.adform.net/" target="_blank">http://track.adform.net/</a> was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A future release of Microsoft Edge will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592</a> and <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032</a>.", source: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> (0)
20200122-111148|INFO|C:\dist\work\selenium-allbrowsers\tools\seleniumtools.py:23|screenshot: <a href="https://www.vg.no/" target="_blank">https://www.vg.no/</a> -> EdgeHeadless-screen.png
[0122/111148.755:INFO:CONSOLE(0)] "A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <a href="http://adform.net/" target="_blank">http://adform.net/</a> was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A future release of Microsoft Edge will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with `SameSite=None`. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592</a> and <a href="https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/" target="_blank">https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/</a>

[#2]

@mortenb123 hello there, thanks for the details of your issue. I am not seeing this much noise when I run Edge via the MSEdgeDriver.exe and use the EdgeOptions() and EdgeDriver() classes.

Can you try using those instead of ChromeDriver() for this?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver-chromium

-John Jansen

[#3]

Thanks@johnjansen 

Using the canary browser v81.0.401.0 with the latest canary driver worked fine, I was using the follwing in stable:

    "msedge":  {
                   "webdriverver":  "79.0.313.0",
                   "path":  "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe",
                   "webdriverpath":  "C:\\SharedArea\\drivers\\msedgedriver.exe",
                   "webdriver":  "msedgedriver.exe",
                   "check":  true,
                   "ver":  "79.0.309.68"
               }

I'm not completely sure about the versioning some need to match the 3 first  tuples, but others work.

Chrome is using to the first 2 tuples, while Firefox and Opera does not have any rules, just testing and appending a check=true if they work.

[#4 · Accepted solution]

@mortenb123 thanks for the details. I'm glad to hear that it works in the Canary builds. The issue you are seeing is likely due to unfortunate timing of the Selenium 4 release and our Stable version of Edge.

This issue should go away naturally with the next Stable release.

-John