Playwright: [Feature] Ability to skip/or close the page opened by `browser.launch`

Created on 13 Feb 2020 · 4Comments · Source: microsoft/playwright

Version: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/commit/d367a2ed3a2d583e5e82d27ac1f53caddd8aa943 (current master)

When running this script it opens two pages (and I think two contexts)

one after chromium.launch
the other after context.newPage

const { chromium, devices } = require("playwright");
const iPhone = devices["iPhone 6"];

(async () => {
  const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });
  const context = await browser.newContext({
    viewport: iPhone.viewport,
    userAgent: iPhone.userAgent
  });
  const page = await context.newPage();
})();

I would like to close the page opened by chromium.launch, or skip opening it in the first place. Since it is confusing to have a blank page that is not in use (https://github.com/qawolf/qawolf/issues/395).

example-small

Source

jperl

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Most helpful comment

Thanks for the report. We are going to get there, but it'll take some time. In order to implement it we need to introduce a new mode in all the browsers that does not open the default profile on browser startup.