Disable developer mode extensions popup is preventing my test from running

My test ran perfectly one week and then the next week, I ran it again and the test get's stopped as soon as Chrome is opened. A popup opens saying, "Disable developer mode extensions". The popup also says, "Extensions running in developer mode can harm your computer. If you're not a developer, you should disable these extensions running in developer mode to stay safe."

There is also a note pointing to the "i" in the circle in the url field. It says, "You are using an unsupported command-line flag: --ignore-certificate-errors. Stability and security will suffer".

My chromedriver version is v2.9.248315 -- maybe I need to uninstall it and install a newer version?

Stack Exchange Overflow has this as the solution, but it's in Java:

Use following code snippet

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); options.addArguments("chrome.switches","--disable-extensions"); System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "//src//test//resources//chromedriver_new.exe")); driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

I'd like to implement this with JavaScript

I found this on npmjs.com not sure exactly how to implement this within the test

var chromedriver = require('chromedriver');

args = [ // optional arguments ]; chromedriver.start(args); // run your tests chromedriver.stop();

I tried and failed, but I'll try again... any help is greatly appreciated.....