Playwright Resource Monitor: browser window with a breach arrow crossing the 70% threshold

Playwright Resource Monitor: making CI fail when your browser tabs burn CPU

Green build, slow pages. That combination has annoyed me for years: Playwright happily reports 136/136 passing while the browser quietly burns 90% of one core on a badly-behaved tab, or the whole runner sits at 99% memory and everything gets suspiciously slow. Test outcomes say nothing about how much resource the tests consumed. Resource waste in CI is exactly the kind of thing you want to fail loudly, not discover from user complaints later. ...

August 30, 2026 · 6 min · Özkan Pakdil
How to use Playwright MCP in intellij

How to use Playwright MCP with Junie in Intellij

Junie is intellij`s AI agent, which is very helpful for working on code, I find it better then github copilot because its taks planning and implementation is more helpful then github copilot for me. And couple of months ago I was doing a small demo to show how to use vscode with github copilot and playwright. The idea is LLM will use the playwright and write all tests and it will explore the site, this is good because it feels like you are showing your product to a fresh eyes, when we are writing/developing we may miss many things, this LLM approach is good for learning how others can act and it will find in time how to use the site and it will write the test scenario we want. I Longer details for vscode check here. ...

September 1, 2025 · 2 min · Özkan Pakdil