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[BUG] installation of channels msedge-beta, msedge-dev and chrome-beta fails on windows11 #29004

Closed fenchu closed 4 months ago

fenchu commented 8 months ago

System info

Source code

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playwright.exe cr --channel msedge-dev https://www.vg.no
Error: Chromium distribution 'msedge-dev' is not found at C:\Users\mobj\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe
Run "playwright install msedge-dev"

playwright install msedge-dev
Downloading Microsoft Edge Dev
Installing Microsoft Edge Dev
ERROR: failed to install Microsoft Edge
Failed to install browsers
Error: Failed to install msedge-dev

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Steps

Expected install the beta and dev channels, we are on AppData\Local so there is no admin requirements.

Actual no beta and dev channels installed

mxschmitt commented 8 months ago

It's unfortunately required to have administrator rights in order to install Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. This requirement is given by the browser vendors. If you want to have non-admin browsers, we recommend sticking with our default ones which are portable.

The reason why \Local\ gets reported is because of this line which uses prefixes[0] while we check also the global installed path. In this case only the global one is relevant: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/f9c4955fe812aad3e73c452e2bfeafc814b76dd3/packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/index.ts#L695

Does it work with admin permissions for you to install Edge?

fenchu commented 7 months ago

Hi again

I can go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download/insider?form=MA13FJ and install msedge-dev without being asked for admin root.

playwright install msedge-dev
Failed to install browsers
Error:
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ATTENTION: "msedge-dev" is already installed on the system!         ║

it is being installed here: "C:\Users\mobj\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" nothing under program Files

mxschmitt commented 7 months ago

Note: I've marked it as a feature request for now and we'll improve the error message in the meantime.

fenchu commented 7 months ago

I can use the execute_path so no problem. I added a wrapper just like for selenium. But we mostly test dev and beta browsers so it is a great feature.

pavelfeldman commented 4 months ago

Why was this issue closed?

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