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0xFFC on April 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support

Can somebody explain to me what is this good for?

Thank you.

vacri on April 13, 2017 | [–]

Headless browsers are frequently used in buildserver testing of web apps.

jamesgeck0 on April 14, 2017 | [–]

I'll be using it to generate printable PDF reports. It's a huge pain getting highcharts graphs to look identical in every browser's print view.

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