playwright/browser_patches

Contributing Browser Patches

Firefox and WebKit have additional patches atop to expose necessary capabilities.

Ideally, all these changes should be upstreamed. For the time being, it is possible to setup a browser checkout and develop from there.

1. Setting up local browser checkout

From the playwright repo, run the following command:

$ ./browser_patches/prepare_checkout.sh firefox <path to checkout>

(you can optionally pass "webkit" for a webkit checkout)

If you don't have a checkout, don't pass a path and one will be created for you in ./browser_patches/firefox/checkout

NOTE: this command downloads GBs of data.

This command will:

• create a browser_upstream remote in the checkout
• create a playwright-build branch and apply all playwright-required patches to it.

2. Developing a new change

You want to create a new branch off the playwright-build branch.

Assuming that you're under ./browser_patches/firefox/checkout:

$ git checkout -b my-new-feature playwright-build
$ # develop my feature on the my-new-feature branch ....

3. Exporting your change to playwright repo

Once you're happy with the work you did in the browser-land, you want to export it to the playwright repo.

Assuming that you're in the root of the playwright repo and that your browser checkout has your feature branch checked out:

$ ./browser_patches/export.sh firefox <path to checkout>

This script will:

• create a new patch and put it to the ./browser_patches/firefox/patches/
• update the ./browser_patches/firefox/UPSTREAM_CONFIG.sh if necessary
• bump the ./browser_patches/firefox/BUILD_NUMBER number.

If you omit the path to your checkout, the script will assume one is located at ./browser_patches/firefox/checkout

Send a PR to the Playwright repo to be reviewed.

4. Rolling Playwright to the new browser build

Once the patch has been committed, the build bots will kick in, compile and upload a new browser version to all the platforms.

You can check the CDN status:

$ ./browser_patches/tools/check_cdn.sh

As the builds appear, you can roll to a new browser version in the ./browsers.json file.