Improvement: Support for Chrome Extensions

[homestar9]

This is probably a pipe dream, but it would be amazing if we could use cbplaywright to launch browsers that have extensions enabled. The automation potential would be limitless if we could get extensions to work and read data gathered by them in CFML.

I sifted through the docs and it looks like extensions are supported by Chrome only right now, and there's a way to use them headless.
https://playwright.dev/docs/chrome-extensions

We might even be able to use the CLI to download a local copy of the extension files, similar to how the driver is installed.

[dawesi]

What could you do in extensions you cant do in playwright already?

[homestar9]

If Playwright could use browser extensions, it’d open up some functionality that’s tricky to do now. Like, you could load an extension and tap into its features, like a dev tool that highlights performance issues or a UI tweaker that changes the page on the fly without coding it all from scratch. Things like talking to background scripts or messing with browser tabs would be way easier, letting you test or automate stuff closer to how real users interact with extensions. It’d just make life simpler for handling those extra browser bits Playwright doesn’t touch on its own.

You could also then use Playwright to test custom-written extensions on various websites for expected outcomes.