Getting Started with Playwright — quiz

A developer asks why Playwright tends to handle multiple browsers, multiple tabs, and cross-origin flows more naturally than Cypress. What's the architectural difference?

• Playwright executes JavaScript faster than Cypress
• Playwright drives browsers out-of-process via the Chrome DevTools Protocol (and equivalent protocols for Firefox/WebKit), so it controls the browser from the outside rather than running inside the page
• Playwright uses Selenium's WebDriver protocol under the hood
• Playwright requires a separate browser fork for each test