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Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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169 open issues indexed

[CLI]: skill doesn't warn that a generated locator is only unique against the current page state Open

needs-triage-mac

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microsoft/playwright#42790 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
[MCP]: browser_click takes ~5 s longer when the click's fetch gets a 204 No Content Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/playwright#42786 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
[Feature]: Declare a lock for the enclosing suite with `test.describe.configure({ lock })` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

microsoft/playwright#42782 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: getByRole() with a regex name and a string description prints the raw internal:role selector Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/playwright#42779 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: WebKit offline emulation rejects service-worker navigation, including a literal response Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/playwright#42775 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Auto refresh in few seconds unable to run test from it Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/playwright#42774 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Feature]: Biometrics support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/playwright#42773 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: Trace viewer snapshots turn LWC synthetic shadow roots into real shadow roots, so document-level CSS stops applying to their content Open

needs-triage-mac

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/playwright#42772 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: Bundled Firefox shares the real Firefox app-data dir (~/Library/Application Support/Firefox), which macOS 27 TCC-protects — every launch hangs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

microsoft/playwright#42768 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Feature]: add a custom --after filter for test execution Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/playwright#42763 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[CLI]: Generate an offline HTML report from a CLI session (trace + video + screenshot) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/playwright#42755 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[CLI]: snapshot/eval fail with a recoverable "browser not open" state error — agent callers retry instead of recovering Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/playwright#42754 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[Feature]: Support for multi-proxy config via Playwright Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/playwright#42753 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[BUG] bundled skills grant Bash(npx:*) / Bash(npm:*), far wider than anything they invoke Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

microsoft/playwright#42745 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[Bug]: Chromium no-store Fetch stream reaches EOF but request fails with ERR_ABORTED Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/playwright#42742 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[Bug]: WebKit web process dies at random during a run, SIGILL in libWPEWebKit, on three browser builds Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/playwright#42740 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[Bug]: Firefox page.goto never resolves on the first navigation to a page with COOP same-origin Open

needs-triage-win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 47/100

microsoft/playwright#42731 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[Bug]: connectOverCDP never completes when a pre-existing page target stops answering CDP commands Open

needs-triage-linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/playwright#42730 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[Feature]: Conditional retries Open

needs-triage-mac P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/playwright#42725 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[Bug]: frame with `visibility: hidden` is incorrectly treated as visible Open

needs-triage-win

microsoft/playwright#42719 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[MCP] WebP screenshot above 16383 px returns an empty image Open

microsoft/playwright#42717 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Feature]: Failures-only terminal reporter (suppress passing test output) Open

needs-triage-mac

microsoft/playwright#42702 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Feature]: Allow specifying output file name Open

needs-triage-mac

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/playwright#42699 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Bug]: bidi reports transfer size as responseBodySize, so request().sizes() over-reports the body by the header size Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/playwright#42697 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
[Bug]: WebKit 26.6 IndexedDB read stalls after cross-site back navigation when a service worker controls the page Open

needs-triage-mac

microsoft/playwright#42694 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 12, 2026
[Bug]: MCP idle timeout closes the browser during a tool call that outlasts it, failing that call Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

microsoft/playwright#42693 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2026
[Bug]: headersArray() splits single header values on commas on Firefox and WebKit, corrupting every HTTP-date header Open

needs-triage-mac

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/playwright#42687 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
[Bug]: page.evaluate with exposeFunctions and world: "utility" fails with an internal TypeError Open

needs-triage-mac

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/playwright#42686 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2026
[Bug]: test runner silently drops the 'screen' key of device descriptors Open

microsoft/playwright#42679 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
[Bug]: Firefox keeps every navigated document alive after page.mouse.move on a page embedding hCaptcha Open

v1.64

microsoft/playwright#42659 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[Bug]: Linux WebKit compositor SIGSEGV when closing a nested Base UI drawer (standalone reproduction) Open

v1.64

microsoft/playwright#42637 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2026
HTML report and trace viewer: clickable elements aren't keyboard accessible Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/playwright#42559 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2026
[Docs]: incomplete reporter unions, missing trace/video modes, and version annotation errors Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

microsoft/playwright#42544 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[Feature]: Add paused option to clock.install() to start with a frozen clock Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

microsoft/playwright#42536 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[Feature]: Set `this.name` in `TargetClosedError` constructor Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 86/100

microsoft/playwright#42522 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[MCP]: Let a named screenshot be saved in the output directory Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/playwright#42511 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: Edge 152 crashes during download after relaunching a persistent profile; bundled Chromium 151 succeeds Open

upstream v1.64

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/playwright#42506 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[BUG] Playwright CLI updater does not respect supply chain policies and spams the console Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

microsoft/playwright#42505 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Feature]: Playwright testing Web-Serial/Web-USB and Web-BLE Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/playwright#42488 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
[Bug]: Firefox never reports domcontentloaded for a document produced by an XSL transform Open

v1.64

microsoft/playwright#42417 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[Feature]: `Update snapshot` sticky header in UI Mode Attachments panel Open

v1.64

microsoft/playwright#42393 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 25, 2026
[Bug]: Microsoft SAML login closes page on Edge since 1.60; adding --enable-automation fixes regression Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/playwright#42379 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2026
[Feature]: Display a photosensitivity/epileptic warning before non headless test runs Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/playwright#42249 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: Record at cursor inserts stale/previous action after editing test while recording (browser focus loss) Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/playwright#42218 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Feature]: Extensibility for trace files Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/playwright#42213 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Chromium: page born into setOffline(true) context keeps navigator.onLine === true (1.62.0) Open

v1.64

microsoft/playwright#42174 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 8, 2026
[Regression]: middle / modifier click intermittently fails to open a new tab on Playwright 1.62.x Open

v1.64

microsoft/playwright#42142 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Component testing has a new story Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/playwright#42139 · 16 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2026
[Feature]: Add a plain quick start CLI/template setup for the new Playwright component testing Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/playwright#42084 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2026
[Feature]: Add optional params to tracing.group() for structured metadata Open

P3-collecting-feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/playwright#42081 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026

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