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fbouvier 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless brows...

I guess it depends on the scale of your requests.

When you want to browse a few websites from time to time, a local headful browser might be a solution. But when you have thousands or millions of webpages, you need a server environment and a headless browser.

fbouvier 3 months ago [–]

In the past I've run hundreds of headful instances of Chrome in a server environment using Xvfb. It was not a pleasant experience :)

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