Can I use alpine-chrome instead of sockpuppetbrowser?

[UtkarshVerma]

Hi, thank you for this useful piece of software. I have gotten everything working at the moment with the sockpuppetbrowser as the playwright backend.

Since I already use an instance of alpine-chrome for my Karakeep instance, I was wondering if I could use the same instead of spawning a new instance for headless Chrome. Are they functionally the same?

Currently, the sockpuppetbrowser instance uses 300 MB memory even when idling. The motivation for this question to help bring it down.

Thanks.

[jersam]

try it and see?

[dgtlmoon]

Not really, it needs use the Chrome CDP protocol.. but we're working on something smarter

"sockpuppetbrowser" is not a browser, it just starts a new browser and proxies the "CDP" debug protocol back to changedetection

[UtkarshVerma]

My question to the dev was mostly about what is different with sockpuppetbrowser.