Selenium WebDriver supports not only Chrome and Chromium but also Firefox, Safari, Opera, and the now-deprecated Internet Explorer. Puppeteer only supports Chrome and Chromium. This plays back to their different goals. Selenium is a web-UI testing library, while Puppeteer is a remote control library for Chrome .
Read moreWhat can Puppeteer do?
Puppeteer is a Node library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol . Also known as a Headless Chrome Node API, it is useful for automating the Chrome browser to run website tests. Fundamentally, Puppeteer is an automation tool and not a test tool.
Read moreCan Puppeteer run in browser?
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium .
Read moreIs Playwright better than Puppeteer?
Even though Puppeteer and Playwright sport similar APIs, Puppeteer seems to have a sizeable speed advantage on shorter scripts (close to 30% in our observations). Puppeteer and Playwright scripts show faster execution time (close to 20% in E2E scenarios) compared to the Selenium and DevTools WebDriverIO flavours.
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