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So I can navigate by cardinal directions now (like scrolling south a bit)? Joke aside: can somone explain "headless" to me here?

• curiousgal 9y ago
  A headless browser is a web browser without a GUI. Extremely useful in web testing/scrapping.
  • r1ch 9y ago
    Blog / forum "SEO" spam bots will also be a big use case.
    • baq 9y ago
      Sure but they most likely already run off xvfb.
• kozhevnikov 9y ago
  The same reasons as Chrome headless [1] but with Gecko engine. [1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...
• majewsky 9y ago
  When you run the browser, but it doesn't actually display anything on screen. Uses include rendering a screenshot (e.g. a preview thumbnail) of some website on a server, or running automated UI tests that click around a web app and fill out forms to verify its functionality.
  • jshelly 9y ago
    Thank you for taking the time to explain. I had the same question.