how to disable chrome extension in selenium

Question

I am trying to disable all chrome extensions when starting up my selenium chrome. But all extensions keep starting up each time I run the code. Is there a way of disabling the extensions.

Sample Code

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\chromedriver.exe");
    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
    capabilities.setCapability("chrome.binary", "C:\\Users\\ngzhongqin\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
    driver.get("http://www.cnn.com");
    WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
}

 

Answer 1

Found a fix.

  capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--disable-extensions"));