Browser Properties

Browser Settings:

• Target:  Determines where a new page loads—options include current window, new window, parent, popup, or async browser for independent operation.

  • Default: Will try to automatically configure the most appropriate. Generally defaults to a new browser when following a link within a list.

  • Current: Opens the link in the current browser.

  • Parent: Opens the link in the Parent of the command containing the current command.

  • New: Opens the link in a new browser (tab).

  • Popup: Opens in a popup window.

  • Async: Creates an independent browser that runs in parallel.

• Browser Type: Choose between Dynamic (fully interactive) or Static (faster, no JavaScript execution) browsers for optimal performance based on the website’s complexity.

  • Default: whatever the current browser is, usually dynamic.

  • Dynamic: a dynamic browser complete with scripts and styles that you would expect when browsing normally.

  • Static: a simplified browser loading only the specified file type (HTML, JSON, & XML) that does not execute JavaScript and is therefore faster.  May not work on many websites that require JavaScript.

• Use Browser HTTP for Static Requests: Enables HTTP for static mode requests (uncheck for HTTPS).

• Rotate Proxy: Rotate the proxies before loading the link.

• Clear Cookies & Storage: Clears the website’s cookies and local storage.

• Ignore error codes if content is received, except for not found errors:It treats responses with content as valid, unless the error code is "Not Found" .

• Ignore not found error codes if content is received: Some web sites will return incorrect status codes by default unless the web server is not returning any content.

• Random Delay Before Action: Adds a random delay before actions, with customizable min/max values.

Browser Response Capture:

• Capture Response Headers & Cookies: Captures headers and cookies from web responses for analysis, useful for debugging and tracking interactions.

• Capture File: Enables capturing response files for export, allowing further analysis or reference of the captured content..

• Capture Response Content: capture the response content (as text) for export or later use. Enabling requires you to enter a RegEx filter to specify the content you’d like to capture.

  • Naming Format:Defines how captured responses are named. Two options are available:

    • URL File Name: Uses the original file name from the URL.

    • Sequential – Names the responses in sequential order.

• Capture Audio Stream: Records audio streams (WAV/MP3) and stops after a silence period, ensuring efficient capture of desired sound.

• Capture Requests: Filters and captures specific requests using RegEx.

Dynamic Browser Settings:

• Wait Settings: Controls how long to wait for content to load.

  • Wait for Local Content: Waits for local resources.

  • Wait for Main Page Load Only: Waits for the main page to load.

  • Wait for All Content: Waits for all content (Ajax, etc.).

  • Wait for Async Loaded Content: Waits for asynchronous elements.

  • No Wait: Does not wait for full page loading.

  • Wait for Selected Content: Waits for content to appear on the page that is used by a sub-command. Waits for all content to load if no sub-commands exist, or no sub-commands select content.

• Load Images: Determines if images should load.

  • Default: Follow agent settings.

  • Yes: Loads images.

  • No: Disables image loading to improve performance.

• Load Styles: Controls CSS loading.

  • Default: Follow agent settings.

  • Yes: Loads styles.

  • No: Disables styles for faster performance.

• Block Ads: Prevents ads from loading.

  • Default/Yes/No: Configures ad blocking based on agent settings.

• Block Requests Between Actions: Prevents all requests between actions to reduce traffic.

  • Default/Yes/No: Configures request blocking between actions based on agent settings.

• Block URLs: Uses RegEx to block specific URLs.

Dynamic Browser Timeouts:

• Detect discovery timeouts on next action: Tries to detect appropriate discovery timeouts next time the action is executed in the editor.

• Discover activity timeout: The time an action will wait for new activity to occur in the browser before completing the action (default: 4 seconds).

• Discover first activity timeout: The time an action will wait for the first activity to occur in the browser before failing the action because it started no new activity (default: 4 seconds).

• Activity timeouts: Configurable wait times for page activities (Default, Short, Normal, Long, Very Long, Custom).

• Selected content (seconds). Only applicaple when waiting for selected content: Specifies the wait time (in seconds) for selected content to appear; applicable only when waiting for selected content (default: 30 seconds).

• Page load timeout (seconds): Max time for a page to load (default: 30 seconds).

• Page initialization timeout (seconds): Time for initial setup (default: 10 seconds).

• Async timeout (seconds): Time for async operations (default: 10 seconds).

• Parse HTML Timeout: Max time for HTML parsing (default: 6 seconds).

• Action completed timeout (seconds): Time for action complete (default: 10 seconds).

Static Browser Settings:

• Page Load Timeout: Max time for a page to load in static mode (default: 15 seconds).

• Fixed Encoding: Sets character encoding (default: UTF-8, can select others).