Published: October 23, 2024
In early 2023, we announced the availability of Chrome's new Headless mode (--headless=new)
in Chrome 112. Later that year, we made the old Headless mode available as a standalone chrome-headless-shell binary.
Both announcements also noted our plans to eventually remove the old Headless mode from the Chrome binary. We're happy to announce that the old Headless mode will be removed in Chrome 132.
From Chrome 132:
- Running Chrome with
--headless=oldnow prints a helpful error message instead of launching the old Headless mode. - Running Chrome with
--headlessor--headless=newruns the new Headless mode.
If you are using old Headless functionality you should now migrate to
chrome-headless-shell (to retain old Headless functionality) or to the new
Headless mode, which continues to be provided by the Chrome binary.
We look forward to hearing your feedback about Headless mode. If you encounter any issues, file a bug.