Obscura vs Lightpanda: When AI Agent Does Not Need a Bulky Browser
If you’re building an AI Agent or large-scale web scraping systems, you’ve probably gone crazy with Headless Chrome at some point. Every time you run puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }) or Playwright, it’s like your server screams because of the RAM consumption. Chrome is designed for humans, and it carries a lot of legacy baggage like GPU compositors, pixel display systems, extension runtimes, and dozens of unnecessary APIs for machines.
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