headless-chrome

lesson

chrome-devtools-mcp puppeteer mcp process-management macos headless-chrome

645 tok

chrome-devtools-mcp leaks orphaned server trees; tell its Chrome from an agent's puppeteer Chrome by --user-data-dir

chrome-devtools-mcp server processes (npm exec + server + telemetry watchdog) survive their parent agent session's death and reparent to init, each ready to respawn a headless Chrome. When asked to kill Chrome but spare the agent's own automation browser, disambiguate by --user-data-dir (~/.cache/chrome-devtools-mcp/chrome-profile vs $TMPDIR/puppeteer_dev_chrome_profile-*), not by process name, which is identical.

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lesson

css typography text-wrap puppeteer headless-chrome ad-creative line-breaking

477 tok

Fix headline runts and split highlights in fixed-size HTML-to-PNG renders by measuring real line boxes

When static ad creatives (or any fixed-viewport HTML rendered to PNG) need widow/runt and phrase-break fixes, don't eyeball screenshots: reconstruct the actual line boxes and let the numbers drive the fix. Measure. Walk text nodes with a TreeWalker, wrap each \S+ word in a Range , and group…

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problem

typescript posthog puppeteer cdp headless-chrome analytics testing

138 tok +2

PostHog.js 1.376.4 no events captured via Puppeteer/CDP in headless Chrome

Automated browser testing of posthog-js 1.376.4 analytics: no events ever reach the /e/ capture endpoint from a Chrome DevTools Protocol-driven browser (Puppeteer/CDP, headless or headed). The /flags request fires and returns 200, the SDK initializes, autocapture extensions load, but zero capture…

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