Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox

Re:Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox by yoavm on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @05:10PM (#41185561)

I know this isn't what the WebDriver BiDi protocol is for, but I feel like it's 90% there to being a protocol through which you can create browsers, with swappable engines. Gecko has gone a long way since Servo, and it's actually quite performant these days. The sad thing is that it's so much easier to create a Chromium-based browser than it is to create a Gecko based one. But with APIs for navigating, intercepting requests, reading the console, executing JS - why not just embed the thing, remove all the browser chrome around it, and let us create customized browsers?

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Re:Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox by apatheticonion on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @07:41PM (#41186637)

Agreed. Headless browser testing is a great example of a case where an embeddable browser engine "as a lib" would be immensely helpful.

JSDom in the Nodejs world offers a peak into what that might look like - though it is lacking a lot of browser functionality making it impractical for most use cases.

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Re:Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox by djbusby on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @05:14PM (#41185601)

I have dreamed about a swappable engine.

Like, a wrapper that does my history and tabs and book marks - but let's me move from rendering in Chrome or Gecko or Servo or whatever.

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Re:Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox by sorenjan on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @05:29PM (#41185772)

There used to be an extension for Firefox called "IE Tab for Firefox" that used the IE rendering engine inside a Firefox tab, for sites that only worked in IE.

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Re:Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox by hyzyla on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @05:53PM (#41185977)

The same idea with built in Internet Explorer in Microsoft Edge, where you can switch to Internet Explorer mode and open website that only correctly works in Internet Exlorer

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Re:Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox by pauldino on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @11:19PM (#41187789)

And Google made basically the opposite thing to embed Chrome within Internet Explorer for sites that wouldn't work in IE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_Frame

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Re:Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox by joshuaissac on Thursday August 08, 2024 @03:47AM (#41189096)

There are some browsers that support multiple rendering engines out of the box, like Maxthon (Blink + Trident) and Lunascape (Blink + Gecko + Trident).

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