Using default Playwright configuration with the latest Chromium is a good idea most of the time. When to use Google Chrome & Microsoft Edge and when not to? They will be installed at the default global location that depends on your operating system. Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge installations will not be isolated. Here is how you can opt into using the stock browser: In particular, current Playwright version will support Stable and Beta channels of these browsers.

While Playwright can download and use the recent Chromium build, it can operate against the stock Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers available on the machine (note that Playwright doesn't install them by default). This gives a lot of lead time to react on the potential browser update issues. Playwright's WebKit version matches the recent WebKit trunk build, before it is used in Apple Safari and other WebKit-based browsers. Playwright's Firefox version matches the recent Firefox Stable build. For details on when to opt into stable channels, refer to the Google Chrome & Microsoft Edge section below. There is also a way to opt into using Google Chrome's or Microsoft Edge's branded builds for testing. Since Chromium project is ahead of the branded browsers, when the world is on Google Chrome N, Playwright already supports Chromium N+1 that will be released in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in a few weeks. Chromium įor Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and other Chromium-based browsers, by default, Playwright uses open source Chromium builds. It means that every time you update playwright, you might need to re-run the install CLI command. With every release, Playwright updates the versions of the browsers it supports, so that the latest Playwright would support the latest browsers at any moment. Depending on the language you use, Playwright will either download these browsers at package install time for you, or you will need to use Playwright CLI to install these browsers. Each version of Playwright needs specific versions of browser binaries to operate.

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