Useful for Windows image to have Chrome installed, even if display not available
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Tan K H
It would be good to have a Windows 2019 Server that has Chrome installed on it.
There is a large class of browser-based end to end (e2e) testing that can be supported on Windows Server 2019 if the Chrome browser can run. This is because the Chrome browser can be invoked HEADLESS so that no display is needed and e2e tests with Selenium or Protractor can run successfully.
However, the list in https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/hello-world-windows/#software-pre-installed-in-the-windows-image, shows that currently on the 'Windows Server 2019 with VS 2019' machine, Chrome is not installed. This is currently the
only Windows image available for use in CircleCI.
This is a request to add Chrome to the installed software or to provide another Windows server image that hasChrome on it.
Thanks,
CCI-I-1311
Oran Wilder
open
Ricardo Feliciano
under review
We are currently considering this.
If we do pre-install this, it might only be on the newer Windows Server 2022 image. Any thoughts on this?
T
Tan K H
Chrome is requested here for pragmatic reasons and because it supports the headless option.
Hopefully, this request is not rejected just because other browsers could also be potentally asked - Firefox, Edge etc, leading to a large number of browsers which would be impractical.