Supported Playwright versions, browsers and OSes

Learn about the supported browsers and OS versions and how to specify them in your cross-browser Playwright tests.

When running any Playwright test, you have to specify the OS and browser that you want to use for the test. This document lists all of the supported browsers, Playwright and OS versions for cross-browser Playwright tests, as well as the values to specify in the capability to accomplish that.

Playwright compatible devices and browsers

The following table lists the supported Playwright versions and the compatible device and browser versions:

Specify browser and OS

The following example shows how the os, osVersion, browser, browser_version, and deviceName need to be defined in a key: value JSON structure in the caps variable:

const caps = {
  'browser': 'chrome',  // allowed browsers are `chrome`, `edge`, `playwright-chromium`, `playwright-firefox`, and `playwright-webkit`
  'browser_version': 'latest',
  'os': 'os x',
  'osVersion': 'big sur'
};

The following os, osVersion, browser, browser_version, and deviceName values are supported for your Playwright tests on BrowserStack.

You can see the usage of these capabilities in this sample script which runs a test across multiple cross-browser combinations in parallel.

Specify Playwright version

BrowserStack detects the browser and browser_version from the capability set in your test script and selects the appropriate Playwright version. If the browser_version is not specified, the Playwright version used will be the same as the Playwright client version. If you have a use case where you need to set the Playwright version explicitly, only then consider using the browserstack.playwrightversion capability in your test script.

If you must set the Playwright version explicitly, set the browserstack.playwrightVersion key to the required version in your test script.

Need some help?

If you have a use case where you need to use a Playwright version other than the ones we support, contact us.