[FIXED] Multiple headless browsers in Windows environment?

Issue

Is there a way to use multiple headless browsers (simultaneously) in Windows to do web automation testing?

Preferably I need to automate a browser with full javascript support so a modern Qt backend, with webkit implemented, would be ideal.

Spynner and Ghost.py looked promising but only support an X11 environment for "more than 1 browser" setups.

Any ideas?

Solution

In the last year I was able to get this to work in both languages...

I used zombie for node and Ghost.py for python.

The Qt webkit backend now supports "tabs" in their Browser objects that allows for multiple sandboxed browsers to run simultaneously. I believe there was also an enhancement that broke a shared instance between a single webkit model not allowing more than one to be instantiated at a time.

On node I've had upwards of 60 independent browsers at once that rotate using an object pool, and in Python I've only ever needed 20-30; but it worked flawlessly as well.

Answered By - blakev