chore(deps): update dependency playwright to v1.59.0

[uptick-renovate]

This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
playwright (changelog)		minor	==1.43.0 → ==1.59.0
playwright (changelog)	project.dependencies	minor	==1.43.0 → ==1.59.0

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Release Notes

Microsoft/playwright-python (playwright)

v1.59.0

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🎬 Screencast

New page.screencast API provides a unified interface for capturing page content with:

• Screencast recordings
• Action annotations
• Visual overlays
• Real-time frame capture
• Agentic video receipts

Screencast recording — record video with precise start/stop control, as an alternative to the recordVideoDir option:

page.screencast.start(path="video.webm")

# ... perform actions ...
page.screencast.stop()

Action annotations — enable built-in visual annotations that highlight interacted elements and display action titles during recording:

page.screencast.show_actions(position="top-right")

screencast.show_actions() accepts position ('top-left', 'top', 'top-right', 'bottom-left', 'bottom', 'bottom-right'), duration (ms per annotation), and font_size (px). Returns a disposable to stop showing actions.

Visual overlays — add chapter titles and custom HTML overlays on top of the page for richer narration:

page.screencast.show_chapter("Adding TODOs",
    description="Type and press enter for each TODO",
    duration=1000,
)

page.screencast.show_overlay('<div style="color: red">Recording</div>')

Real-time frame capture — stream JPEG-encoded frames for custom processing like thumbnails, live previews, AI vision, and more:

page.screencast.start(
    on_frame=lambda frame: send_to_vision_model(frame["data"]),
)

Agentic video receipts — coding agents can produce video evidence of their work. After completing a task, an agent can record a walkthrough video with rich annotations for human review:

page.screencast.start(path="receipt.webm")
page.screencast.show_actions(position="top-right")

page.screencast.show_chapter("Verifying checkout flow",
    description="Added coupon code support per ticket #​1234",
)

# Agent performs the verification steps...
page.locator("#coupon").fill("SAVE20")
page.locator("#apply-coupon").click()
expect(page.locator(".discount")).to_contain_text("20%")

page.screencast.show_chapter("Done",
    description="Coupon applied, discount reflected in total",
)

page.screencast.stop()

The resulting video serves as a receipt: chapter titles provide context, action annotations highlight each interaction, and the visual walkthrough is faster to review than text logs.

🔍 Snapshots and Locators

• Method page.aria_snapshot() to capture the aria snapshot of the page — equivalent to page.locator('body').aria_snapshot().
• Options depth and mode in locator.aria_snapshot().
• Method locator.normalize() converts a locator to follow best practices like test ids and aria roles.
• Method page.pick_locator() enters an interactive mode where hovering over elements highlights them and shows the corresponding locator. Click an element to get its Locator back. Use page.cancel_pick_locator() to cancel.

New APIs

Screencast

• page.screencast provides video recording, real-time frame streaming, and overlay management.
• Methods screencast.start() and screencast.stop() for recording and frame capture.
• Methods screencast.show_actions() and screencast.hide_actions() for action annotations.
• Methods screencast.show_chapter() and screencast.show_overlay() for visual overlays.
• Methods screencast.show_overlays() and screencast.hide_overlays() for overlay visibility control.

Storage, Console and Errors

• Method browser_context.set_storage_state() clears existing cookies, local storage, and IndexedDB for all origins and sets a new storage state — no need to create a new context.
• Methods page.clear_console_messages() and page.clear_page_errors() to clear stored messages and errors.
• Option filter in page.console_messages() and page.page_errors() controls which messages are returned.
• Method console_message.timestamp().

Miscellaneous

• browser_context.debugger provides programmatic control over the Playwright debugger.
• Method browser_context.is_closed().
• Method request.existing_response() returns the response without waiting.
• Method response.http_version() returns the HTTP version used by the response.
• Option live in tracing.start() for real-time trace updates.
• Option artifacts_dir in browser_type.launch() to configure the artifacts directory.

🔗 Interoperability

New browser.bind() API makes a launched browser available for playwright-cli, @playwright/mcp, and other clients to connect to.

Bind a browser — start a browser and bind it so others can connect:

server_info = await browser.bind("my-session",
    workspace_dir="/my/project",
)

Connect from playwright-cli — connect to the running browser from your favorite coding agent.

playwright-cli attach my-session
playwright-cli -s my-session snapshot

Connect from @​playwright/mcp — or point your MCP server to the running browser.

@​playwright/mcp --endpoint=my-session

Connect from a Playwright client — use API to connect to the browser. Multiple clients at a time are supported!

browser = await chromium.connect(server_info["endpoint"])

Pass host and port options to bind over WebSocket instead of a named pipe:

server_info = await browser.bind("my-session",
    host="localhost",
    port=0,
)

# server_info["endpoint"] is a ws:// URL

Call browser.unbind() to stop accepting new connections.

📊 Observability

Run playwright-cli show to open the Dashboard that lists all the bound browsers, their statuses, and allows interacting with them:

• See what your agent is doing on the background browsers
• Click into the sessions for manual interventions
• Open DevTools to inspect pages from the background browsers.

- `playwright-cli` binds all of its browsers automatically, so you can see what your agents are doing.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

• Removed macOS 14 support for WebKit. We recommend upgrading your macOS version, or keeping an older Playwright version.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 147.0.7727.15
• Mozilla Firefox 148.0.2
• WebKit 26.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 146
• Microsoft Edge 146

v1.58.0

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Trace Viewer Improvements

• New 'system' theme option follows your OS dark/light mode preference
• Search functionality (Cmd/Ctrl+F) is now available in code editors
• Network details panel has been reorganized for better usability
• JSON responses are now automatically formatted for readability

Thanks to @​cpAdm for contributing these improvements!

Miscellaneous

browser_type.connect_over_cdp() now accepts an is_local option. When set to True, it tells Playwright that it runs on the same host as the CDP server, enabling file system optimizations.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

• Removed _react and _vue selectors. See locators guide for alternatives.
• Removed :light selector engine suffix. Use standard CSS selectors instead.
• Option devtools from browser_type.launch() has been removed. Use args=['--auto-open-devtools-for-tabs'] instead.
• Removed macOS 13 support for WebKit. We recommend to upgrade your macOS version, or keep using an older Playwright version.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 145.0.7632.6
• Mozilla Firefox 146.0.1
• WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 144
• Microsoft Edge 144

v1.57.0

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Chrome for Testing

Starting with this release, Playwright switches from Chromium, to using Chrome for Testing builds. Both headed and headless browsers are subject to this. Your tests should still be passing after upgrading to Playwright 1.57.

We're expecting no functional changes to come from this switch. The biggest change is the new icon and title in your toolbar.

If you still see an unexpected behaviour change, please file an issue.

On Arm64 Linux, Playwright continues to use Chromium.

Breaking Change

After 3 years of being deprecated, we removed page.accessibility from our API. Please use other libraries such as Axe if you need to test page accessibility. See our Node.js guide for integration with Axe.

New APIs

• worker.on("console") event is emitted when JavaScript within the worker calls one of console API methods, e.g. console.log or console.dir. worker.expect_event() can be used to wait for it.
• locator.description() returns locator description previously set with locator.describe().
• New option steps in locator.click() and locator.drag_to() that configures the number of mousemove events emitted while moving the mouse pointer to the target element.
• Network requests issued by Service Workers are now reported and can be routed through the BrowserContext, only in Chromium. You can opt out using the PLAYWRIGHT_DISABLE_SERVICE_WORKER_NETWORK environment variable.
• Console messages from Service Workers are dispatched through worker.on("console"). You can opt out of this using the PLAYWRIGHT_DISABLE_SERVICE_WORKER_CONSOLE environment variable.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 143.0.7499.4
• Mozilla Firefox 144.0.2
• WebKit 26.0

v1.56.0

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New APIs

• New methods page. console_messages() and page.page_errors() for retrieving the most recent console messages from the page
• New method page.requests() for retrieving the most recent network requests from the page

Breaking Changes

• Event browserContext.on("backgroundpage") has been deprecated and will not be emitted. Method browserContext. background_pages() will return an empty list

Miscellaneous

• Aria snapshots render and compare input placeholder

Browser Versions

• Chromium 141.0.7390.37
• Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
• WebKit 26.0

v1.55.0

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Codegen

• Automatic to_be_visible() assertions: Codegen can now generate automatic to_be_visible() assertions for common UI interactions. This feature can be enabled in the Codegen settings UI.

Breaking Changes

• ⚠️ Dropped support for Chromium extension manifest v2.

Miscellaneous

• Added support for Debian 13 "Trixie".

Browser Versions

• Chromium 140.0.7339.16
• Mozilla Firefox 141.0
• WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 139
• Microsoft Edge 139

v1.54.0

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Highlights

• New cookie property partition_key in BrowserContext.cookies() and browserContext.add_cookies(). This property allows to save and restore partitioned cookies. See CHIPS MDN article for more information. Note that browsers have different support and defaults for cookie partitioning.

• New option --user-data-dir in multiple commands. You can specify the same user data dir to reuse browsing state, like authentication, between sessions.

  playwright codegen --user-data-dir=./user-data

• playwright open does not open the test recorder anymore. Use playwright codegen instead.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 139.0.7258.5
• Mozilla Firefox 140.0.2
• WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 140
• Microsoft Edge 140

v1.53.0

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Miscellaneous

• New Steps in Trace Viewer:
  

• New method locator.describe() to describe a locator. Used for trace viewer.

  button = page.get_by_test_id("btn-sub").describe("Subscribe button")
  button.click()

• python -m playwright install --list will now list all installed browsers, versions and locations.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 138.0.7204.4
• Mozilla Firefox 139.0
• WebKit 18.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 137
• Microsoft Edge 137

v1.52.0

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Highlights

• New method expect(locator).to_contain_class() to ergonomically assert individual class names on the element.

    expect(page.get_by_role("listitem", name="Ship v1.52")).to_contain_class("done")

• Aria Snapshots got two new properties: /children for strict matching and /url for links.

  expect(locator).to_match_aria_snapshot("""
    - list
      - /children: equal
      - listitem: Feature A
      - listitem:
        - link "Feature B":
          - /url: "https://playwright.dev"
  """)

Miscellaneous

• New option max_redirects in apiRequest.new_context() to control the maximum number of redirects.
• New option ref in locator.aria_snapshot() to generate reference for each element in the snapshot which can later be used to locate the element.

Breaking Changes

• Method route.continue() does not allow to override the Cookie header anymore. If a Cookie header is provided, it will be ignored, and the cookie will be loaded from the browser's cookie store. To set custom cookies, use browserContext.add_cookies().
• macOS 13 is now deprecated and will no longer receive WebKit updates. Please upgrade to a more recent macOS version to continue benefiting from the latest WebKit improvements.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 136.0.7103.25
• Mozilla Firefox 137.0
• WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 135
• Microsoft Edge 135

v1.51.0

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Highlights

• New option indexed_db for browserContext.storage_state() allows to save and restore IndexedDB contents. Useful when your application uses IndexedDB API to store authentication tokens, like Firebase Authentication.

  Here is an example following the authentication guide:

  # Save storage state into the file. Make sure to include IndexedDB.
  storage = context.storage_state(path="state.json", indexed_db=True)
  
  # Create a new context with the saved storage state.
  context = browser.new_context(storage_state="state.json")

• New option visible for locator.filter() allows matching only visible elements.

  # Ignore invisible todo items.
  todo_items = page.get_by_test_id("todo-item").filter(visible=True)
  # Check there are exactly 3 visible ones.
  expect(todo_items).to_have_count(3)

• New option contrast for methods page.emulate_media() and browser.new_context() allows to emulate the prefers-contrast media feature.

• New option fail_on_status_code makes all fetch requests made through the APIRequestContext throw on response codes other than 2xx and 3xx.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 134.0.6998.35
• Mozilla Firefox 135.0
• WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 133
• Microsoft Edge 133

v1.50.0

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Async Pytest Plugin

• Playwright's Pytest plugin now has support for Async Fixtures.

Miscellaneous

• Added method expect(locator).to_have_accessible_error_message() to assert the Locator points to an element with a given aria errormessage.

UI updates

• New button in Codegen for picking elements to produce aria snapshots.
• Additional details (such as keys pressed) are now displayed alongside action API calls in traces.
• Display of canvas content in traces is error-prone. Display is now disabled by default, and can be enabled via the Display canvas content UI setting.
• Call and Network panels now display additional time information.

Breaking

• expect(locator).to_be_editable() and locator.is_editable() now throw if the target element is not <input>, <select>, or a number of other editable elements.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 133.0.6943.16
• Mozilla Firefox 134.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 132
• Microsoft Edge 132

v1.49.1

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Highlights

microsoft#2679 - [Bug]: Warning: Validation of the RECORD file of playwright-1.49.0-py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl failed

Browser Versions

• Chromium 131.0.6778.33
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 130
• Microsoft Edge 130

v1.49.0

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Aria snapshots

New assertion expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() verifies page structure by comparing to an expected accessibility tree, represented as YAML.

page.goto("https://playwright.dev")
expect(page.locator('body')).to_match_aria_snapshot('''
  - banner:
    - heading /Playwright enables reliable/ [level=1]
    - link "Get started"
    - link "Star microsoft/playwright on GitHub"
  - main:
    - img "Browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)"
    - heading "Any browser • Any platform • One API"
''')

You can generate this assertion with Test Generator or by calling locator.ariaSnapshot().

Learn more in the aria snapshots guide.

Tracing groups

New method tracing.group() allows you to visually group actions in the trace viewer.

# All actions between group and group_end
# will be shown in the trace viewer as a group.
page.context.tracing.group("Open Playwright.dev > API")
page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
page.get_by_role("link", name="API").click()
page.context.tracing.group_end()

Breaking: chrome and msedge channels switch to new headless mode

This change affects you if you're using one of the following channels in your playwright.config.ts:

• chrome, chrome-dev, chrome-beta, or chrome-canary
• msedge, msedge-dev, msedge-beta, or msedge-canary

After updating to Playwright v1.49, run your test suite. If it still passes, you're good to go. If not, you will probably need to update your snapshots, and adapt some of your test code around PDF viewers and extensions. See issue #​33566 for more details.

Try new Chromium headless

You can opt into the new headless mode by using 'chromium' channel. As official Chrome documentation puts it:

New Headless on the other hand is the real Chrome browser, and is thus more authentic, reliable, and offers more features. This makes it more suitable for high-accuracy end-to-end web app testing or browser extension testing.

See issue #​33566 for the list of possible breakages you could encounter and more details on Chromium headless. Please file an issue if you see any problems after opting in.

pytest test_login.py --browser-channel chromium

Miscellaneous

• There will be no more updates for WebKit on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11. We recommend updating your OS to a later version.
• <canvas> elements inside a snapshot now draw a preview.
• Python 3.8 is not supported anymore.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 131.0.6778.33
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 130
• Microsoft Edge 130

v1.48.0

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WebSocket routing

New methods page.route_web_socket() and browser_context.route_web_socket() allow to intercept, modify and mock WebSocket connections initiated in the page. Below is a simple example that mocks WebSocket communication by responding to a "request" with a "response".

def message_handler(ws: WebSocketRoute, message: Union[str, bytes]):
  if message == "request":
    ws.send("response")

page.route_web_socket("/ws", lambda ws: ws.on_message(
    lambda message: message_handler(ws, message)
))

See WebSocketRoute for more details.

UI updates

• New "copy" buttons for annotations and test location in the HTML report.
• Route method calls like route.fulfill() are not shown in the report and trace viewer anymore. You can see which network requests were routed in the network tab instead.
• New "Copy as cURL" and "Copy as fetch" buttons for requests in the network tab.

Miscellaneous

• New method page.request_gc() may help detect memory leaks.
• Requests made by APIRequestContext now record detailed timing and security information in the HAR.
• This version adds support for Python 3.13
• This version is the last version supporting Python 3.8

Browser Versions

• Chromium 130.0.6723.19
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 129
• Microsoft Edge 129

v1.47.0

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Network Tab improvements

The Network tab in the trace viewer has several nice improvements:

• filtering by asset type and URL
• better display of query string parameters
• preview of font assets

Miscellaneous

• The mcr.microsoft.com/playwright-python:v1.47.0 now serves a Playwright image based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble.
  To use the 22.04 jammy-based image, please use mcr.microsoft.com/playwright-python:v1.47.0-jammy instead.
• The :latest/:focal/:jammy tag for Playwright Docker images is no longer being published. Pin to a specific version for better stability and reproducibility.
• TLS client certificates can now be passed from memory by passing cert and key as bytes instead of file paths.
• no_wait_after in locator.selectOption() was deprecated.
• We've seen reports of WebGL in Webkit misbehaving on GitHub Actions macos-13. We recommend upgrading GitHub Actions to macos-14.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 129.0.6668.29
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 128
• Microsoft Edge 128

v1.46.0

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TLS Client Certificates

Playwright now allows to supply client-side certificates, so that server can verify them, as specified by TLS Client Authentication.

You can provide client certificates as a parameter of browser.new_context() and api_request.new_context(). The following snippet sets up a client certificate for https://example.com:

context = browser.new_context(
    client_certificates=[
        {
            "origin": "https://example.com",
            "certPath": "client-certificates/cert.pem",
            "keyPath": "client-certificates/key.pem",
        }
    ],
)

When using the Pytest plugin, it can be added like this:

@​pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def browser_context_args(browser_context_args):
    return {
        **browser_context_args,
        "client_certificates": [
            {
                "origin": "https://example.com",
                "certPath": "client-certificates/cert.pem",
                "keyPath": "client-certificates/key.pem",
            }
        ],
    }

Trace Viewer Updates

• Content of text attachments is now rendered inline in the attachments pane.
• New setting to show/hide routing actions like route.continue_().
• Request method and status are shown in the network details tab.
• New button to copy source file location to clipboard.
• Metadata pane now displays the base_url.

Miscellaneous

• New max_retries option in apiRequestContext.fetch() which retries on the ECONNRESET network error.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 128.0.6613.18
• Mozilla Firefox 128.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 127
• Microsoft Edge 127

v1.45.1

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Highlights

microsoft/playwright-java#1617 - [Bug]: Trace Viewer not reporting all actions
microsoft/playwright#31764 - [Bug]: some actions do not appear in the trace file

Browser Versions

• Chromium 127.0.6533.5
• Mozilla Firefox 127.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 126
• Microsoft Edge 126

v1.45.0

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Clock

Utilizing the new Clock API allows to manipulate and control time within tests to verify time-related behavior. This API covers many common scenarios, including:

• testing with predefined time;
• keeping consistent time and timers;
• monitoring inactivity;
• ticking through time manually.

# Initialize clock with some time before the test time and let the page load
# naturally. `Date.now` will progress as the timers fire.
page.clock.install(time=datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 2, 8, 0, 0))
page.goto("http://localhost:3333")

# Pretend that the user closed the laptop lid and opened it again at 10am.

# Pause the time once reached that point.
page.clock.pause_at(datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 2, 10, 0, 0))

# Assert the page state.
expect(page.get_by_test_id("current-time")).to_have_text("2/2/2024, 10:00:00 AM")

# Close the laptop lid again and open it at 10:30am.
page.clock.fast_forward("30:00")
expect(page.get_by_test_id("current-time")).to_have_text("2/2/2024, 10:30:00 AM")

See the clock guide for more details.

Miscellaneous

• Method locator.setInputFiles() now supports uploading a directory for <input type=file webkitdirectory> elements.

  page.get_by_label("Upload directory").set_input_files('mydir')

• Multiple methods like locator.click() or locator.press() now support a ControlOrMeta modifier key. This key maps to Meta on macOS and maps to Control on Windows and Linux.

  # Press the common keyboard shortcut Control+S or Meta+S to trigger a "Save" operation.
  page.keyboard.press("ControlOrMeta+S")

• New property httpCredentials.send in apiRequest.newContext() that allows to either always send the Authorization header or only send it in response to 401 Unauthorized.
• Playwright now supports Chromium, Firefox and WebKit on Ubuntu 24.04.
• v1.45 is the last release to receive WebKit update for macOS 12 Monterey. Please update macOS to keep using the latest WebKit.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 127.0.6533.5
• Mozilla Firefox 127.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 126
• Microsoft Edge 126

v1.44.0

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New APIs

Accessibility assertions

• expect(locator).to_have_accessible_name() checks if the element has the specified accessible name:

  locator = page.get_by_role("button")
  expect(locator).to_have_accessible_name("Submit")

• expect(locator).to_have_accessible_description() checks if the element has the specified accessible description:

  locator = page.get_by_role("button")
  expect(locator).to_have_accessible_description("Upload a photo")

• expect(locator).to_have_role() checks if the element has the specified ARIA role:

  locator = page.get_by_test_id("save-button")
  expect(locator).to_have_role("button")

Locator handler

• After executing the handler added with page.add_locator_handler(), Playwright will now wait until the overlay that triggered the handler is not visible anymore. You can opt-out of this behavior with the new no_wait_after option.
• You can use new times option in page.add_locator_handler() to specify maximum number of times the handler should be run.
• The handler in page.add_locator_handler() now accepts the locator as argument.
• New page.remove_locator_handler() method for removing previously added locator handlers.

locator = page.get_by_text("This interstitial covers the button")
page.add_locator_handler(locator, lambda overlay: overlay.locator("#close").click(), times=3, no_wait_after=True)

# Run your tests that can be interrupted by the overlay.
# ...
page.remove_locator_handler(locator)

Miscellaneous options

• expect(page).to_have_url() now supports ignore_case option.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 125.0.6422.14
• Mozilla Firefox 125.0.1
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 124
• Microsoft Edge 124

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