Puppeteer just hangs with default Chrome installation

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 1.11.0
• Platform / OS version: Linux Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64
• URLs (if applicable):
• Node.js version: 10.14.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async() => {
   const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
   const page = await browser.newPage();
   await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36');
   await page.setViewport({width:960,height:768});
   await page.goto('https://google.com/', {timeout: 40000, waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'});
   await page.screenshot({ fullPage: true, path: 'screenshot.jpg' });
   await browser.close();
})();

1. Install puppeteer with npm i puppeteer command .
2. Run this code sample with node make-screenshot.js command to make a screenshot of webpage.

What is the expected result? Puppeteer should save screenshot as expected.

What happens instead? Puppeteer just hangs, timeout doesn’t work.

How to fix it now? I solved it by installing chromium-browser separately: sudo apt update sudo apt install -y chromium-browser chromium-browser --version

And then we have to change executable path in the code example to make it work:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async() => {
   const browser = await puppeteer.launch({executablePath: 'chromium-browser'}); // <- set path for chromium browser
   const page = await browser.newPage();
   await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36');
   await page.setViewport({width:960,height:768});
   await page.goto('https://google.com/', {timeout: 40000, waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'});
   await page.screenshot({ fullPage: true, path: 'screenshot.jpg' });
   await browser.close();
})();

Now it works fine for me.

So that puppeteer-core and chromium-browser should be installed insted of just puppeteer.

[antun]

@aslushnikov that doesn’t seem right. Chromium is packaged with Puppeteer, we don’t control the version of Chromium separately. When we do an npm install, Puppeteer automatically chooses the Chromium version it wants via a script. Puppeteer v1.10.0 specifies to use Chromium revision 599821:

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/v1.10.0/package.json#L11

Shouldn’t Puppeteer specify a version of Chromium it’s compatible with?

[fgroupindonesia]

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 1.11.0
• Platform / OS version: Linux Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64
• URLs (if applicable):
• Node.js version: 10.14.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async() => {
   const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
   const page = await browser.newPage();
   await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36');
   await page.setViewport({width:960,height:768});
   await page.goto('https://google.com/', {timeout: 40000, waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'});
   await page.screenshot({ fullPage: true, path: 'screenshot.jpg' });
   await browser.close();
})();

1. Install puppeteer with npm i puppeteer command .
2. Run this code sample with node make-screenshot.js command to make a screenshot of webpage.

What is the expected result? Puppeteer should save screenshot as expected.

What happens instead? Puppeteer just hangs, timeout doesn’t work.

How to fix it now? I solved it by installing chromium-browser separately: sudo apt update sudo apt install -y chromium-browser chromium-browser --version

And then we have to change executable path in the code example to make it work:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async() => {
   const browser = await puppeteer.launch({executablePath: 'chromium-browser'}); // <- set path for chromium browser
   const page = await browser.newPage();
   await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36');
   await page.setViewport({width:960,height:768});
   await page.goto('https://google.com/', {timeout: 40000, waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'});
   await page.screenshot({ fullPage: true, path: 'screenshot.jpg' });
   await browser.close();
})();

Now it works fine for me.

So that puppeteer-core and chromium-browser should be installed insted of just puppeteer.

where the puppet-core usage anyway?