[Feature] Option to install only a selection of browser engines

[mxschmitt]

Currently once you install playwright, playwright-core will be installed, which will install all 3 browser engines (takes quite long). It would be awesome, if we could give somehow the option that only some engines will be installed.
Either by specifying it e.g. in the package.json or by splitting playwright-core up in different packages, which the user has to install. (for webkit, chromium and firefox).

[pavelfeldman]

We have convenience npms playwright-chromium, playwright-webkit and playwright-firefox that only download that single browser. Note that we will change the export signatures for them so that they matched playwright itself (see #814).

[bennycode]

@pavelfeldman how to use playwright-chromium? The README file of it isn't very descriptive.

I tried to use it with npx -y playwright-chromium install but it is still downloading firefox & webkit:

[mxschmitt]

If you are using Playwright Test (@playwright/test) then you only have to do: npx playwright install chromium. And uninstall all the other packages besides it :)

[bennycode]

Cool. Thank you very much for your input. Looks like it shipped with: #4952 🎷

[gajus]

And uninstall all the other packages besides it :)

Is there a command to uninstall other browsers installed by Playwright?

[aslushnikov]

Is there a command to uninstall other browsers installed by Playwright?

@gajus Garbage collection happens automatically whenever the installed browser is not used by any other playwright installation.
There's no dedicated command to uninstall used browsers though; please file an issue to request one!

[Pomax]

Rather than playwright-chromium, playwright-webkit and playwright-firefox, could we get "normally" namespaced packages instead? e.g. @playwright/playwright, @playwright/chromium, @playwright/webkit, and @playwright/firefox?