Need to run many scenarios at one instance without relaunching the browser. How to do it?

[FathimaAfshan]

helpers: {
Playwright: {
browser: 'chromium',
url: '***',
show: true,
keepBrowserState: true, // This ensures cookies and session are maintained across scenarios
restart: false, // Prevents browser from restarting after each scenario
keepCookies: true,
}
}

I have given restart as 'false' but still the browser is getting relaunched after every scenario

[tomaszHut42]

hey @FathimaAfshan, have you found out the answer? I have the same issue

[FathimaAfshan]

hey @FathimaAfshan, have you found out the answer? I have the same issue

No @tomaszHut42

[myrepojuly]

Pls try with restart:‘keep’ @FathimaAfshan @tomaszHut42

[tomaszHut42]

hey @FathimaAfshan, indeed I fixed it for myself using restart:‘keep’ (and keepBrowserState and keepCookies set to true as well). Additionally, my issue was I used I.amOnPage('/') in the Background section, which caused the browser to reload (not close the window, but reload the page, which also broke my test workflow). The best results gave me config as aforementioned and setting a flag in Before hook:

let pageLoaded = false; 

Before(({ I }) => {
  if (!pageLoaded) {
    I.amOnPage('/'); 
    pageLoaded = true;
  }
});