feat: download browsers as TAR #34033

Skn0tt · 2024-12-16T15:53:00Z

Some of our browsers are already available as .tar.br. Compared to the current .zip archives, the brotli tarballs are ~10-30% smaller. This PR makes us download brotli files for chromium and webkit.

packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/oopDownloadBrowserMain.ts

pavelfeldman · 2024-12-18T22:40:27Z

packages/playwright-core/bundles/zip/package.json

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "extract-zip": "2.0.1",
+    "tar-fs": "^3.0.6",


I understand the library is popular, but its deps list seem to be excessive for what it does a little. Did we consider alternatives?

Oh wow, "tar" is even more...

Yes, we considered tar-fs, tar and writing our own. Writing our own turned out more complex than imagined, because webkit has very long path names and the format becomes tricky when that's involved. Of the three, tar-fs seemed the most focused.

mxschmitt · 2024-12-19T16:13:06Z

packages/playwright-core/browsers.json

@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@
      "revision": "1011",
      "installByDefault": true,
      "revisionOverrides": {
-        "mac12": "1010",
-        "mac12-arm64": "1010"
+        "mac12": "1011",


whats the motivation for changing this?

1010 doesn't have .tar.br, and 1010 is identical to 1011 in functionality

pavelfeldman · 2025-01-04T00:17:58Z

packages/playwright-core/ThirdPartyNotices.txt

@@ -1229,6 +2813,6 @@ END OF [email protected] AND INFORMATION

 SUMMARY BEGIN HERE
 =========================================
-Total Packages: 48
+Total Packages: 60


We are paying a 25% bump in # of deps for a feature that does not link to a user report linked. Usually not a very good sign.

True. It also increases the zip bundle size from 112kb to 202kb. We had this attempt of writing our own tar parser, maybe we should give it another try.

pavelfeldman · 2025-01-04T00:29:13Z

Just as an idea, can we utilize extract-zip's non-compression mode for tar? That way we use zip for tar and don't need all this extra code? i.e. the files will be .zip.br, not .tar.br.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-06T12:01:01Z

Just as an idea, can we utilize extract-zip's non-compression mode for tar?

That'd save some dependencies, but would result in slightly larger bundles¹ and it'd prevent streaming extraction. I'd prefer to stick with TAR, gonna take a stab at reducing the bundle size for that.

tested on firefox-mac: .zip is 92mb, .zip.br is 67.2mb and .tar.br is 65.36mb ↩

yury-s · 2025-01-29T21:53:46Z

packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/oopDownloadBrowserMain.ts

+  } else {
+    const file = fs.createWriteStream(options.zipPath);
+    await downloadFile(options, file);
+    log(`SUCCESS downloading ${options.title}`);


nit: should we place it before downloadFile and print "log(downloading ${options.title});"?

Happy to do that in a separate PR, but that would be a behaviour change to before. What'd be the benefit?

yury-s · 2025-01-29T23:40:45Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+  return decodeStr(buf, 0, buf.length, encoding)
+}
+
+exports.encodePax = function encodePax (opts) { // TODO: encode more stuff in pax


Let's drop this too, we only need to decode?

Good catch! Will do.

yury-s · 2025-01-29T23:55:20Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/patch.diff

What is the base for this patch? I see that headers.js upstream start with https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream/blob/126968fd3c4a39eba5f8318c255e04cedbbad176/headers.js#L1-L4 but I don't see those lines removed in the diff, was there some other modification before? Maybe we can split the patch into removing unnecessary stuff and then applying some changes to avoid third-party deps?

It looks like headers.js somehow wasn't included in the diff 🤔 Let me fix that.

yury-s · 2025-01-30T00:10:32Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+    const len = parseInt(buf.toString('ascii', 0, i), 10)
+    if (!len) return result
+
+    const b = buf.subarray('ascii', i + 1, len - 1)


Not sure if it's important but len-1 maybe out of the buffer bounds, we may want to throw in that case.

I'd prefer to not touch the implementation. The upstream package is widely used and I think there's more risk from changing this than to leave in a potential defect.

yury-s · 2025-01-30T00:12:54Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+    const b = buf.subarray('ascii', i + 1, len - 1)
+    const keyIndex = b.indexOf('=')
+    if (keyIndex === -1) return result
+    result[b.slice(0, keyIndex)] = b.slice(keyIndex + 1)


This uses deprecated slice while the rest of the code uses subarray, perhaps it should be explicit toString()?

see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

yury-s · 2025-01-30T00:13:26Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+    // ustar (posix) format.
+    // prepend prefix, if present.
+    if (buf[345]) name = decodeStr(buf, 345, 155, filenameEncoding) + '/' + name
+  } else if (isGNU(buf)) {


Do we need both POSIX UStar and GNU?

see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

yury-s · 2025-01-30T00:14:25Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+  }
+
+  // to support old tar versions that use trailing / to indicate dirs
+  if (typeflag === 0 && name && name[name.length - 1] === '/') typeflag = 5


Probably doesn't hurt, but I don't think we need to support the old versions.

see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

yury-s · 2025-01-30T00:32:15Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/index.js

+
+    function onfile () {
+      const ws = xfs.createWriteStream(name)
+      const rs = mapStream(stream, header)


Looks like this is always just stream.

see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

yury-s · 2025-01-30T00:34:58Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/patch.diff

+     if (this._parent._stream === this) {
+       this._parent._update()
+     }
+-    cb(null)


Why did this go away?

Before, this class extended streamx.Readable, but it now extends node:stream.Readable. The _read implementation is slightly different, see https://github.com/mafintosh/streamx/blob/be4bbc8ba0b4c862a3d996e484675d4b6297136d/README.md?plain=1#L136-L137. Luckily it was synchronous before, so we can remove this callback easily.

Skn0tt

Thanks for the review. I'll act on removing the dead code and fixing the patch.

I'd prefer to not touch the implementation more than absolutely necessary. The library is widely-used enough that any change introduces more risk than it averts. If we want to write our own, i'm open to that in a follow-up.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T10:57:55Z

packages/playwright-core/src/server/registry/oopDownloadBrowserMain.ts

+  } else {
+    const file = fs.createWriteStream(options.zipPath);
+    await downloadFile(options, file);
+    log(`SUCCESS downloading ${options.title}`);


Happy to do that in a separate PR, but that would be a behaviour change to before. What'd be the benefit?

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T10:58:54Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+    const len = parseInt(buf.toString('ascii', 0, i), 10)
+    if (!len) return result
+
+    const b = buf.subarray('ascii', i + 1, len - 1)


I'd prefer to not touch the implementation. The upstream package is widely used and I think there's more risk from changing this than to leave in a potential defect.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T10:59:25Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+    const b = buf.subarray('ascii', i + 1, len - 1)
+    const keyIndex = b.indexOf('=')
+    if (keyIndex === -1) return result
+    result[b.slice(0, keyIndex)] = b.slice(keyIndex + 1)


see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T10:59:34Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+    // ustar (posix) format.
+    // prepend prefix, if present.
+    if (buf[345]) name = decodeStr(buf, 345, 155, filenameEncoding) + '/' + name
+  } else if (isGNU(buf)) {


see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T10:59:38Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+  }
+
+  // to support old tar versions that use trailing / to indicate dirs
+  if (typeflag === 0 && name && name[name.length - 1] === '/') typeflag = 5


see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T10:59:49Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/index.js

+
+    function onfile () {
+      const ws = xfs.createWriteStream(name)
+      const rs = mapStream(stream, header)


see above, let's not touch the implementation needlessly.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T11:01:47Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/patch.diff

It looks like headers.js somehow wasn't included in the diff 🤔 Let me fix that.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T11:03:42Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/patch.diff

+     if (this._parent._stream === this) {
+       this._parent._update()
+     }
+-    cb(null)


Before, this class extended streamx.Readable, but it now extends node:stream.Readable. The _read implementation is slightly different, see https://github.com/mafintosh/streamx/blob/be4bbc8ba0b4c862a3d996e484675d4b6297136d/README.md?plain=1#L136-L137. Luckily it was synchronous before, so we can remove this callback easily.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-30T11:04:16Z

packages/playwright-core/src/utils/third_party/tar/headers.js

+  return decodeStr(buf, 0, buf.length, encoding)
+}
+
+exports.encodePax = function encodePax (opts) { // TODO: encode more stuff in pax


Good catch! Will do.

Skn0tt

I've removed the dead code and fixed that patch. Not sure how headers.js slipped. The way I generated it is by pasting the files from the linked commits into a folder called original, pasting the edited files into a patched folder, and then running git diff --no-index -- original patched.

github-actions · 2025-01-30T13:15:27Z

Test results for "tests 1"

12 flaky

⚠️ [chromium-page] › tests/page/page-event-request.spec.ts:151:3 › should report navigation requests and responses handled by service worker with routing @chromium-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [firefox-page] › tests/page/page-evaluate.spec.ts:403:3 › should throw for too deep reference chain @firefox-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [playwright-test] › tests/ui-mode-trace.spec.ts:341:5 › should work behind reverse proxy @ubuntu-latest-node22-1
⚠️ [webkit-library] › tests/library/defaultbrowsercontext-2.spec.ts:28:3 › should work in persistent context @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [webkit-library] › tests/library/proxy.spec.ts:44:3 › should use proxy for second page @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [webkit-library] › tests/library/screenshot.spec.ts:278:14 › element screenshot › should restore viewport after page screenshot and exception @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [webkit-library] › tests/library/selector-generator.spec.ts:68:5 › selector generator › should generate text for @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [webkit-library] › tests/library/video.spec.ts:475:5 › screencast › should scale frames down to the requested size @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [webkit-page] › tests/page/page-leaks.spec.ts:82:5 › click should not leak @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [webkit-page] › tests/page/page-leaks.spec.ts:107:5 › fill should not leak @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [webkit-page] › tests/page/page-set-input-files.spec.ts:147:3 › should upload large file @webkit-ubuntu-22.04-node18
⚠️ [playwright-test] › tests/ui-mode-test-watch.spec.ts:145:5 › should watch all @windows-latest-node18-1

37725 passed, 654 skipped
✔️✔️✔️

Merge workflow run.

Skn0tt · 2025-01-31T13:10:03Z

We discussed this again yesterday and came to the conclusion that the risk of changing the download mechanism isn't worth the download size and speed improvements from this. Shelving this.

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Test results for "tests 1"

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