Managing Browser Lifecycle and State in Playwright

Browser lifecycle bottlenecks killing your Playwright suite?

Large QA suites launch new browsers per test file. test.use({ context: true }) helps but browser process startup remains the bottleneck at scale.

Use globalSetup to launch one browser, then spawn isolated contexts per worker. Share the browser process but never share contexts across tests.

// playwright.config.js

const { chromium } = require('playwright');