Is your feature request related to a problem?

Version 8.14 introduced automatic web driver configuration. While this is great, it can be an annoyance when using the devtools automation protocol. My tests run in a network environment with limited access to the Internet and they fail because of this. While this can be disabled (#11128), it's counterintuitive to specify a port or a driver binary to disable the download despite it will never be used.

Describe the solution you'd like.

At first glance, it should be as simple as wrapping this:

with an if statement as follows:

if (config.automationProtocol !== 'webdriver') {
    await Promise.all([
        setupDriver(config, caps),
        setupBrowser(config, caps)
    ])
}

However, this wouldn't work with configurations where multiple automation protocols are used, for example:

export const config: WebdriverIO.Config = {
  beforeSession(config, capabilities) {
    if (capabilities.browserName === 'chrome') {
      config.automationProtocol = 'devtools'
    } else {
      config.automationProtocol = 'webdriver'
    }
  }
  // ...
}

Thus, in order for this to work, the setup*() method invocations must be moved after the onWorkerStart and before the actual runner is started (e.g. line 437 below):

Describe alternatives you've considered.

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