We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient

Re:We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient by cl685 on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:46PM (#49756952)

what did you lose compared to CDP (e.g. cross-origin iframes, downloads running in envs where you can't load extensions)?

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Re:We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient by wittydeveloper on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:48PM (#49756974)

It still uses CDP but communicates from an extension within the browser instead of a script running in a separate runtime or, worse, in a separate region.

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Re:We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient by youngtaff on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:49AM (#49765761)

Are you using CDP over web sockets or via a pipe?

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