Can't set chrome preferences in vba selenium - vba

Question

I've created a script in vba in combination with selenium to parse the first headline from this webpage. Most of the times my script throws this error timeout or this error Run-time error 21; Application defined or Object defined error while sometimes it works flawlessly. As the page takes too much time to load it's content, I suppose I'm having one of the side effect of a slow loading page, so I wish to disable images from that page.
I've tried with:
Sub TestSelenium()
Const URL$ = "https://www.marketscreener.com/"
Dim driver As Object, post As Object
Set driver = New ChromeDriver
driver.get URL
Set post = driver.FindElementByCss(".une_title")
MsgBox post.Text
driver.Quit
End Sub
When I go for python selenium binding, I can use this option to disable images:
option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_prefs = {}
option.experimental_options["prefs"] = chrome_prefs
chrome_prefs["profile.default_content_settings"] = {"images": 2}
chrome_prefs["profile.managed_default_content_settings"] = {"images": 2}
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=option)
I know there are options to set different preferences in vba but in case of disabling images I can't find any proper way to set them:
driver.SetPreference
driver.AddArgument
How can I set chrome preferences in vba selenium to let the page load quickly without images?

Answer 1

To disable images from that page, this is how you can set the preference within vba selenium bindings:
driver.SetPreference "profile.managed_default_content_settings.images", 2
Your script looks like the following when you implement the above suggestion:
Sub TestSelenium()
Const URL$ = "https://www.marketscreener.com/"
Dim driver As Object, post As Object
Set driver = New ChromeDriver
driver.SetPreference "profile.managed_default_content_settings.images", 2
driver.get URL
Set post = driver.FindElementByCss(".une_title")
MsgBox post.Text
Stop
driver.Quit
End Sub

Answer 2

You could always try running it headless? That should remove any delay associated with image loading.
driver.AddArgument "--headless"