Playwright MCP v0.0.80

Playwright MCP releases published Playwright MCP v0.0.80. This release-watch entry was generated from the project's official GitHub release feed and is kept separate from human-reviewed editorial analysis. Release notes: What's New New Tools browser start recording / browser stop recording (opt-in via --caps=devtools ) — Record actions that the user performs manually in the browser and return them as Playwright code. Useful when the user wants to demonstrate a flow instead of describing it ( 42359 ) Bug Fixes The default --codegen language is inferred from the environment ( 42150 ) Honor --user-data-dir in extension mode ( 42190 ) Do not treat orphaned browser preferences entries as an installed extension ( 42224 ) browser take screenshot returns the original screenshot bytes instead of silently downscaling them to model-specific limits ( 42406 ) Drop the cached browser backend after browser close with a shared browser context, so subsequent tool calls from the same client no longer fail ( 42365 ) When connected to a remote endpoint, browserInfo reports the browser actually running remotely instead of…

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