[BUG] page.pause() does not stop

Context:

• Playwright Version: 1.20.1
• Operating System: Win 10 pro
• Node.js version: 16.13.1
• Browser: Chromium

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Describe the bug

page.pause() stopped stopping and just steps forward, so no way to access the inspector and the recorder. No option changed, and been like this v18 I think. Is there an option to disable the pause() call?

[DetachHead]

using debugger doesn’t really replace page.pause because it’s effectively the exact same as a breakpoint. i use page.pause when i want to pause the execution without halting the event loop (ie. to work around issues like #10897 and #11668).

another use case is:

await page.route('**/foo*', async (route) => {
    const request = route.request()
    doSomethingWith(request) //BREAKPOINT HERE
})
await page.goto('https://google.com')
await page.waitForLoadState('networkidle')
await page.pause()

here, i want to pause execution once the site loads so i can manually poke around and hit the brekpoint in page.route once a matching request is intercepted. if i replace that await page.pause() with a debugger statement, i can’t do anything because navigation hangs until the event loop resumes

now i have to resort to something like await page.waitForTimeout(9999999) which isn’t ideal

[andrisi]

I agree. It’s useful functionality, and not clear why remove it. You can name it something else, make it work when a flag is set, etc. Playwright is an excellent project from Microsoft, along with Vscode, but this feels like Windows 11 dropping the vertical talkbar. Some people like it that way… 😃