Add support for Camoufox browser

[peixotorms]

Hi,

Thank you for this project, it looks fantastic.

Would it be possible for you to add Camoufox browser support to the workers?
https://github.com/daijro/camoufox
https://camoufox.com/

From their features, the main real benefit would be bot evasion and lower memory consumption.
I guess for web scraping, this could be better than the default browsers.

Thanks!

[mbroton]

Thanks for opening this issue. I appreciate the suggestion and am open to discussing Camoufox support, but I don't plan to add it to the core project at this time.

The project's scope is intentionally limited to standard Playwright browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) behind a single WebSocket endpoint. This keeps the grid predictable and maintainable. Adding Camoufox would introduce a different runtime model and an additional upstream dependency to track, which increases maintenance burden and affects our isolation and lifecycle guarantees.
Additionally, we don't currently have an extension mechanism for alternative browser worker types - that would require a separate architectural design.

Let's use 👍 reactions on this issue to gauge community interest. If there's sufficient demand, I'll design a lightweight plugin system that allows non-standard browsers to integrate without affecting the default browser pool. That would be the appropriate place for Camoufox support. For now, I'd like to keep the core focused on stock Playwright browsers.

[peixotorms]

I thought so, that's why I only suggested it.

I've been testing Camoufox, with playwright-distributed for testing, and so far it works fine.
Its Firefox based, node package, so essentially it works the same way as firefox and it's also launched in the same way.

In my test, I replaced playwright with playwright-core, then installed only chrome (patchright-nodejs) and Firefox (camoufox-js) because I was checking if its useful for automation and avoiding captchas. These are minimal changes.

But I agree, generically the defaults are good and eliminates dependencies, so just take it as a suggestion.

Thanks