diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 90cebf19a62bab..eb6ac14b649812 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -436,6 +436,9 @@ function createTestSource(testsName, bot) {
     if (bot) {
       args.push("--strictVerify");
     }
+    if (process.argv.includes("--noChrome")) {
+      args.push("--noChrome");
+    }
 
     var testProcess = startNode(args, { cwd: TEST_DIR, stdio: "inherit" });
     testProcess.on("close", function (code) {
@@ -454,6 +457,10 @@ function makeRef(done, bot) {
   if (bot) {
     args.push("--noPrompts", "--strictVerify");
   }
+  if (process.argv.includes("--noChrome")) {
+    args.push("--noChrome");
+  }
+
   var testProcess = startNode(args, { cwd: TEST_DIR, stdio: "inherit" });
   testProcess.on("close", function (code) {
     done();
diff --git a/test/test.js b/test/test.js
index d4d235d348b829..0540ee8fdef87c 100644
--- a/test/test.js
+++ b/test/test.js
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ function parseOptions() {
       "fontTest",
       "noPrompts",
       "noDownload",
+      "noChrome",
       "downloadOnly",
       "strictVerify",
     ])
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ function parseOptions() {
     .describe("unitTest", "Run the unit tests.")
     .describe("fontTest", "Run the font tests.")
     .describe("noDownload", "Skips test PDFs downloading.")
+    .describe("noChrome", "Skip Chrome when running tests.")
     .describe("downloadOnly", "Download test PDFs without running the tests.")
     .describe("strictVerify", "Error if verifying the manifest files fails.")
     .describe("statsFile", "The file where to store stats.")
@@ -798,8 +800,10 @@ async function startBrowser(browserName, startUrl) {
 }
 
 function startBrowsers(rootUrl, initSessionCallback) {
+  const browserNames = options.noChrome ? ["firefox"] : ["firefox", "chrome"];
+
   sessions = [];
-  for (const browserName of ["chrome", "firefox"]) {
+  for (const browserName of browserNames) {
     // The session must be pushed first and augmented with the browser once
     // it's initialized. The reason for this is that browser initialization
     // takes more time when the browser is not found locally yet and we don't