Hi, Could you please tell me if there is an evaluation version of this headless chrome i can download and test and by when a stable build would be available for download.
Chrome Canary for Linux is a thing? The page https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel only lists Chrome Canary for Windows, macOS and Android. Or are you referring to building from source?
Will this command line flag make it into the next Dev channel release for Linux?
One more question: Does the headless mode work without a running X server / Xvfb?
#149: Yes, the next Linux dev channel build should support --headless. If you want to try it before that, you can download a binary from https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
There's no need to run any kind of X server with --headless.
It seems that the binary from https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ does not contain libosmesa.so and generates an error with [1222/084554.443259:ERROR:gl_implementation.cc(223)].
#176 Thanks for the reply. There are other use-cases for headless extensions apart from integration testing. For example, an ad-blocker/"no-large-image" extension could be used to slim-down pages being loaded headlessly.
Since we've now implemented headless mode on all the major platforms and this master bug is getting a little unwieldy, I'll close it. Note that this doesn't mean we're done with headless mode -- just that we'll use more precisely focused individual bug entries to track future work.
Please keep filing new bugs under the Internals>Headless component and star existing ones to help us prioritize!
