What I like best about Playwright Browser Automation on Windows is its reliability and ease of use. The auto-wait feature reduces flaky tests, setup is simple, and cross-browser testing works smoothly with a single API. It also provides excellent debugging tools like screenshots, videos, and trace viewer, which make troubleshooting much faster and more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing I dislike about Playwright Browser Automation on Windows is that browser installation and dependency setup can sometimes take extra disk space and increase project size. Also, debugging complex test failures in large automation suites can occasionally be time-consuming, especially when dealing with dynamic UI elements or environment-specific issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, what I like best about Playwright on Windows is how seamlessly it just works out of the box. Setting it up used to be a pain with older tools but with Playwright you run one command, it downloads the browsers for you, and you are good to go. No hunting for drivers, no version mismatches between your ChromeDriver and Chrome, none of that headache. For someone working on Windows where environment setup can sometimes be a nightmare, that alone is a huge win.

The other thing that genuinely impressed me is how stable the tests are compared to what I was used to before. The auto-waiting built into Playwright means you are not sprinkling arbitrary sleep calls everywhere just to make a flaky test pass. It waits for elements to be ready, for network calls to settle, and it does all of that intelligently. On Windows specifically I noticed tests that would randomly fail on Selenium were running consistently with Playwright, which made a real difference when running things in CI pipelines.

And the multi-browser support is just fantastic. Being able to run the same test suite against Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit without changing a single line of test code is something I did not fully appreciate until I actually used it. On Windows where you are often building for a wide range of end users, that coverage gives you real confidence that what you are shipping actually works across the board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly my biggest gripe is the installation size. When you install Playwright and let it download all the browsers, you are looking at a pretty hefty chunk of disk space. On Windows this feels more noticeable because the browsers get stored in a way that is not always obvious to find or clean up, and if you are working across multiple projects you can end up with several copies of the same browser binaries sitting on your machine eating up storage. From a pure ROI standpoint it is a small but real cost, especially on teams where developer machines are standardized and storage is managed centrally.

The other thing that bothers me occasionally is how Playwright interacts with Windows Defender and antivirus software. Sometimes when the browsers are being downloaded or when tests are spinning up, Windows security tools flag things or slow the process down noticeably. It does not happen every time but when it does it disrupts your flow and you end up having to add exceptions or wait out a scan. For teams onboarding new developers onto Windows machines this is a friction point that comes up more often than it should, and the documentation does not do a great job of preparing you for it upfront.

The debugging UI, while genuinely useful in theory with the Playwright inspector, can feel a bit clunky on Windows sometimes. The inspector window does not always behave well with high DPI display scaling settings, and the overall experience feels like it was designed with Unix systems as the primary target. Integrations with popular Windows based CI setups like Azure DevOps also took more manual configuration than I expected, and there were moments where I wished the tooling felt more native rather than something ported over as an afterthought. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is based on keywords and everyone easily understands it without the need for coding knowledge it is faster and more efficient.ease of integration to any tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

most dislike about the customer support are not good because its implemented newly that's why if I have any doubt regarding keyword not getting proper information on the google also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Playwright is very easy to use and implement with BDD, it very well integrated with visual code studio and allows you to run test faster, chrome driver support and support of other libraries is also very good. Support documentation is available and its quite useful. The framework I created for my project runs on every new code release and we are able to run our tests on our CI/CD pipelines on daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No cons as such, its a good tool and allows the project to achieve end to end automation quite fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is easy to follow and allows playwright automation to be done easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has little to no community support. It is difficult to find answers to your questions that are not in the documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Playwright allows you to automate the testing on all of the browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Webkit (Safari). It has a lot of functionalities includes that help you build the scripts easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way the code is written is less comprehensive than let's say Cypress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.