[Feature] Launch doctor

[pavelfeldman]

Give us a script that we could use in the target environment that would tell us if Playwright will work there of point to the missing dependencies, libraries or arguments we need to pass into it.

Categorization of linked bugs:

• Windows
  • [Bug] Firefox fails with STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND on some Win 10 setups #2298 - Firefox is missing a DLL on Windows
  • [BUG]Webkit doesn't launch #2840 - missing media DLL for WebKit
  • [BUG] unable to launch webkit on virtual box windows #2548 - missing media DLL for WebKit
  • [BUG] Chromium not launching on Windows #2901 - missing media DLL for Chromium
• Linux
  • [BUG] Google Cloud Function error (deploy) #2321 - Google Cloud Functions is missing dependencies
  • [Question] Run playwright from docker container running express server - sandbox issues #2386 - sandboxing issue (sandboxing is addressed)
  • [Feature] Support for AWS Lambda / Serverless environments #2404 - compile browsers for AWS lambda
  • [Question] Running WebKit GTK on Ubuntu 20.04 #2559 - support Ubuntu 20.04
  • [BUG] Webkit problem with libwebp-1.1.0-1, error while loading shared libraries: libwebp.so.6 #2621 - ArchLinux missing dependencies (we punt it for now)
  • [BUG] Cannot find a MiniBrowser.app in neither location #2660 - corrupted install, ubuntu 20.04
  • [BUG] Getting Error: Protocol error (Target.setAutoAttach): Target closed. #2663 - sandboxing issue (sandboxing is addressed)
  • [BUG] Cannot read property 'message' of undefined - When launching browser #2738 - Firefox fails on Ubuntu 16
  • [Bug] Firefox fails with STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND on some Win 10 setups #2298 - Firefox fails on Ubuntu 16

The scope of this bug:

• Linux
  • missing dependencies
  • missing libraries
  • Chromium sandboxing - approach
  • libc version mismatch for Firefox when running on Ubuntu 16
  • Ubuntu 20.04 WebKit support
• Windows
  • missing media pack (Windows N, Server)
  • missing C Runtime Redistributable
  • missing DLLs
• Mac - no problems so far with Mac.

[pavelfeldman]

Linking #2298

[pavelfeldman]

Linking #2321

[pavelfeldman]

#2386

[pavelfeldman]

#2404

[pavelfeldman]

#2559

[pavelfeldman]

#2621

[pavelfeldman]

#2624

[pavelfeldman]

#2660

[pavelfeldman]

#2645

[pavelfeldman]

#2663

[arjunattam]

In addition to finding missing dependencies, this tool can also check for OS compatibility: eg. Firefox needs Ubuntu 18+. For example: #2738.

[pavelfeldman]

#2840