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		vvoyer on April 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support Thanks, also did not quite understood what exactly was headless_shell: how to run it, pro/cons, when to use it versus chrome headless.

swah on April 14, 2017 [–]

The documentation seems to be the source at this moment: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headle...

Its a binary that I suppose runs the Chrome in headless mode, supports some command line options like --screenshot to take screenshots, etc.

I'm having a hard time understanding why its hanging on some runs, and how --timeout and --virtual-time-budget could help me with this.

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