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		dataviz1000 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) Absolutely. However, it is easier to start with just Chromium flavor of browsers. The two important concepts from Puppeteer/Playwright are managing the lifecycle of pages (tabs) and frames and the other is using handles / locators. There are a lot of limitations using the extension API in any browser instead of CDP / Webdriver BiDi. I'm curious, how would you use this idea?

tech234a 32 days ago [–]

Could be cool for automated website UI testing/verification (check if certain text appears), perhaps also with network API events as well.

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