I'm currently writing a Java-based headless browser, https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver Be

I'm currently writing a Java-based headless browser, https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver Beware it's Affero GPL. It implements most of the Selenium WebDriver APIs. Currently it's a work in progress especially in regard to persistent tracking. But it's capable of addressing many issues raised in the article. As a bonus, for Java users it's a lot faster than GhostDriver at least. Header ordering: https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/master/browser/src/com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver/Settings.java https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/mas... DOM objects (user-agent, navigator, Canvas, Date) are addressed by injecting the response content: https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/master/browser/src/com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver/StreamHandler.java https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/mas... JS Engine: about 1 year newer than PhantomJS. Java ships with Qt5 WebKit. I'll have some significant updates in the next couple of days surrounding all these issues.