It was, but I feel like the advent of headless browsers marked a step function explosion in browser automation. Also any earlier than 2010 is when I was like 13yo, so it's more like "the dark ages in my own memory" than "objectively dark ages in automation history".
I get that drawing historical boundaries is arbitrary, but Selenium is a really good prior.
Selenium offered headless mode and integrated with 3rd party providers like BrowserStack, which ran acceptance tests in parallel in the cloud. It seems like what browser-use.com is doing is a modern day version with many more features & adaptability.
It was, but I feel like the advent of headless browsers marked a step function explosion in browser automation. Also any earlier than 2010 is when I was like 13yo, so it's more like "the dark ages in my own memory" than "objectively dark ages in automation history".
I get that drawing historical boundaries is arbitrary, but Selenium is a really good prior.
Selenium offered headless mode and integrated with 3rd party providers like BrowserStack, which ran acceptance tests in parallel in the cloud. It seems like what browser-use.com is doing is a modern day version with many more features & adaptability.
Yeah I agree, I changed the history section a bit: https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/blob/2a0f4bd93a43...
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speaking of priors... sauce labs existed for three whole years before browserstack (selenium and sauce founder here. :-)
i like that there are new startups in the space, though. things were getting pretty stale and uninspired.
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