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by patrickhogan1 297 days ago
I get that drawing historical boundaries is arbitrary, but Selenium is a really good prior.

Selenium offered headless mode and integrated with 3rd party providers like BrowserStack, which ran acceptance tests in parallel in the cloud. It seems like what browser-use.com is doing is a modern day version with many more features & adaptability.
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nikisweeting 297 days ago
Yeah I agree, I changed the history section a bit: https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/blob/2a0f4bd93a43...
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nikisweeting 296 days ago
whoops pasted the wrong link and it's too late to edit. meant to link to the updated article section here: https://browser-use.com/posts/playwright-to-cdp#:~:text=Sele...
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hugs 297 days ago
speaking of priors... sauce labs existed for three whole years before browserstack (selenium and sauce founder here. :-)

i like that there are new startups in the space, though. things were getting pretty stale and uninspired.

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patrickhogan1 297 days ago
Sauce Labs is excellent. I've actually used it extensively myself (not sure why BrowserStack came to mind first). I remember Sauce Labs was super active in the SF Selenium community and the Selenium meetups. Just checked my emails. Good memories.

Thank you for building Selenium.

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