Request: Selective browser install

[slang25]

The playwright sharp tool to install browsers has an install-browsers command, however it would be nice to offer the ability to install a particular browser in the case where you know you will be only using chromium for example.

For me an install-browsers command is sufficient, but I would like to be able to only download what I use. I imagine there will be runtime checks for the presence of the browser regardless of the level of granularity they are acquired.

Pros:

• Less to download during CI

Cons:

• Another command
• More potential to have a mismatch of required browser at runtime, and installed browser

Related: #889

[mxschmitt]

cc @kblok its now possible by forwarding the browsers as CLI arguments, see here for the implementation: microsoft/playwright#4952

[kblok]

Thanks for the heads up @mxschmitt. We are planning to implement this but not at runtime.

[pavelfeldman]

Browsers are now opt-in. See https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/intro