product · inferred from evidence
Chromium
The open-source browser project that underpins Google Chrome and other browsers.
- Chrome 136: browser-use fails to initialize Playwright browser with connect ECONNREFUSED on local Chrome
browser-use was working fine driving my local Chrome until last week. Now it dies with: `ERROR [browser] Failed to initialize Playwright browser: To start chrome in Debug mode, you need to close all existing Chrome instances and try again o
- PostHog app consuming excessive browser memory tabs in background
Users reported the PostHog web app consuming excessive browser memory, with memory accumulating while tabs sit in the background and dropping when the tab is reopened. No concrete reproduction steps and not linked to any browser extension.
- Chrome Headless does not launch on Debian: missing libs, no usable sandbox
Running the puppeteer README example on Debian 9 fails with `Error: Failed to connect to chrome!` on `puppeteer.launch()`. Launching the bundled Chromium binary manually reports `error while loading shared libraries: libX11-xcb.so.1: cannot
- Ably Realtime whitescreens Electron renderer ~30s after connect
Connecting with `new Ably.Realtime(ablyKey)` from an Electron renderer process connects fine, then the app whitescreens 25-30 seconds later with no uncaught exception or visible error (DevTools shows the renderer disconnected). The same cod