[Bug]: I downloaded the microsoft playwright cli and it downloads the wrong versions of chrome

[alethcoe]

Playwright version

1.12.0

Operating system

Windows

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chromium

Other information

On windows 10

What happened? / Describe the bug

trying running playwright install but when I would run playwright it could never find Chrome. If I blew away my cached browsers it would download them but the wrong versions.

If I rename the version of the folder it works but if I ever reinstall browsers I have to go do it again.

Code snippet to reproduce your bug

using System;
using Microsoft.Playwright;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace PlaywrightDemo
{
    class Program
    {
    public static async Task Main()
    {
        using var playwright = await Playwright.CreateAsync();
        await using var browser = await playwright.Chromium.LaunchAsync();
        var page = await browser.NewPageAsync();
        await page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev/dotnet");
        await page.ScreenshotAsync(new PageScreenshotOptions { Path = "screenshot.png" });
    }
    }
}

Relevant log output

D:\Source\playwright_sharp\PlaywrightTests> playwright install
Removing unused browser at C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\ms-playwright\chromium-907428
Downloading Playwright build of chromium v888113 - 97.7 Mb [================] 100% 0.0s
Playwright build of chromium v888113 downloaded to C:\Users\aleth\AppData\Local\ms-playwright\chromium-888113

Unhandled exception. Microsoft.Playwright.PlaywrightException: Executable doesn't exist at C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\ms-playwright\chromium-907428\chrome-win\chrome.exe
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Looks like Playwright Test or Playwright was just installed or updated. ║
║ Please run the following command to download new browsers:              ║
║                                                                         ║
║     npx playwright install                                              ║
║                                                                         ║
║ <3 Playwright Team                                                      ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
   at Microsoft.Playwright.Transport.Connection.SendMessageToServerAsync[T](String guid, String method, Object args)
   at Microsoft.Playwright.Core.BrowserType.LaunchAsync(BrowserTypeLaunchOptions options)
   at PlaywrightDemo.Program.Main() in D:\Source\playwright_sharp\PlaywrightDemo\Program.cs:line 12
   at PlaywrightDemo.Program.<Main>()

[mxschmitt]

This is caused by https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/7741

executing playwright install without the npx should fix it.

[alethcoe]

I didn't run npx, you can see in the first line of my traces from my powershell i was running, playwright install without npx. This should have been using the playwright cli installed through dotnet tools. We are running into the same behavior in windows docker containers.

[mxschmitt]

Whats your output of Get-Command playwright in PowerShell? Seems like its using the wrong Playwright CLI.

[alethcoe]

Thank you for your help. Yes It was pointed at a previous python version of playwright.

I moved my environment variable up to put dotnet ahead of python and it works now. Closing as it was my error due to other language cli taking precedence.

[rsantosdev]

@mxschmitt I'm reopening this as I'm trying to upgrade to v1.17 and no matter what I do it doesn't download the correct chromium version.

My Tools installation

I cleaned the ms-playwright folder and is still downloading the older version

[rsantosdev]

My apologies, after reading this again carefully I remembered that I was upgrading from .net 5 to .net 6 and I forgot to clear previous builds if anyone has the same issue, just run this command from the repo root folder to clear all bin and obj folders:

Get-ChildItem .\ -include bin,obj -Recurse | foreach ($_) { remove-item $_.fullname -Force -Recurse }