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  • Catch saveAs rejections from the MCP tab download handler; when the browser was closed mid-download the rejection fired after the context stopped listening for unhandled rejections and took down the server.

Fixes #42831

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❌ [chrome] › mcp/annotate.spec.ts:291 › should enter annotate mode on fresh dashboard.tsx mount with -s --annotate @mcp-windows-latest-chrome
❌ [chromium] › mcp/cli-json.spec.ts:191 › tool error on bad navigation returns JSON error @mcp-macos-latest-chromium
❌ [webkit] › mcp/http.spec.ts:624 › should close session when heartbeat ping is not answered @mcp-macos-latest-webkit

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Hi, I'm the Playwright bot and I took a first look at the CI failures here.

🟡 Nothing points at this PR, but two failures aren't proven flakes

The PR only changes the download listener in tools/backend/tab.ts to log a rejected _downloadStarted() instead of leaving it unhandled, and adds one test in mcp/files.spec.ts. None of the three failing tests start a download. The annotate.spec.ts failure is a confirmed flake. The other two, http.spec.ts:624 on [webkit] and cli-json.spec.ts:191 on [chromium], have no earlier failures of their own in the DB. The same errors have shown up on sibling projects on main, which points toward flakes.

Details

The failures come from the MCP merge report, which matches test run 36074277043 (sha 0fc10c0f). The new test, closing browser during download does not crash the server, passes in that run. It timed out on macOS in an earlier push (0d05cbad) and passed after it was switched to isolated: true.

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  • [webkit] › mcp/http.spec.ts:624 › should close session when heartbeat ping is not answered (macOS): Expected: 1, Received: undefined after the 5s poll. The only [webkit] failure in the DB is this PR's run. The identical error hit [firefox] on Windows on main (0f5a946a, run 33657515908) and passed on retry. The failure is in HTTP session heartbeat handling, which this PR doesn't touch.
  • [chromium] › mcp/cli-json.spec.ts:191 › tool error on bad navigation returns JSON error (macOS): 30s timeout with SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input. The [chromium] project has no other failure in the DB, so this is its first recorded one and I can't strictly call it a flake. The test is a bad goto and never fires a download event, so the changed code doesn't run. The identical error failed [chrome] on macOS on main (80ef9143, run 33186806849) and [webkit] on macOS on feat(reporter): report step params in the chrome://tracing report #42358, which strongly suggests a flake. A green rerun of the MCP macOS chromium job would settle it.

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Yury Semikhatsky (yury-s) merged commit 48844a5 into microsoft:main Sep 25, 2026
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Yury Semikhatsky (yury-s) added a commit to microsoft/playwright-mcp that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2026
## ✨ Highlights

- **🔎 Save `browser_find` results to a file** — new `filename` parameter
writes matches to a file instead of the response
([microsoft/playwright#42077](microsoft/playwright#42077)).
([microsoft/playwright#42968](microsoft/playwright#42968))

## 🐛 Fixes

- `browser_navigate` and `browser_reload` report a dialog opened during
page load instead of timing out
([microsoft/playwright#42817](microsoft/playwright#42817)).
([microsoft/playwright#42908](microsoft/playwright#42908))
- The server no longer crashes when the browser is closed during a
download
([microsoft/playwright#42831](microsoft/playwright#42831)).
([microsoft/playwright#42922](microsoft/playwright#42922))
- `browser_wait_for` reports when `time` is capped at 30 seconds
([#1767](#1767)).
([microsoft/playwright#42932](microsoft/playwright#42932))
- WebMCP tools no longer stay bound to a stale tab or frame
([microsoft/playwright#42816](microsoft/playwright#42816)).
([microsoft/playwright#42821](microsoft/playwright#42821))
- WebMCP tool calls work with Chromium 155+.
([microsoft/playwright#42915](microsoft/playwright#42915))
- Snapshots quote accessible names that look like regexes, e.g.
`"/home/"`
([microsoft/playwright#42807](microsoft/playwright#42807)).
([microsoft/playwright#42811](microsoft/playwright#42811))
- The Docker image reaps orphaned browser processes
([#1769](#1769)).
([#1771](#1771))
Yury Semikhatsky (yury-s) added a commit to microsoft/playwright-cli that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2026
## Fixes

- `run-code` scripts can use timers, `fetch`, `URL`, `Buffer`, `crypto`,
`AbortController` and `TextEncoder`/`TextDecoder`; `require` and
`process` stay unavailable
([#471](#471)).
([microsoft/playwright#42975](microsoft/playwright#42975))
- `find --filename=results.md` saves matches to a file when a query
produces too many of them
([microsoft/playwright#42077](microsoft/playwright#42077)).
([microsoft/playwright#42968](microsoft/playwright#42968))
- `goto` and `reload` report a dialog opened during page load instead of
timing out
([microsoft/playwright#42817](microsoft/playwright#42817)).
([microsoft/playwright#42908](microsoft/playwright#42908))
- The session no longer crashes when the browser is closed during a
download
([microsoft/playwright#42831](microsoft/playwright#42831)).
([microsoft/playwright#42922](microsoft/playwright#42922))
- `install-browser --no-shell` is accepted instead of failing with
`Unknown option: --shell`
([microsoft/playwright#42804](microsoft/playwright#42804)).
([microsoft/playwright#42871](microsoft/playwright#42871))
- `webmcp-call` no longer runs a tool in a stale tab or frame
([microsoft/playwright#42816](microsoft/playwright#42816)).
([microsoft/playwright#42821](microsoft/playwright#42821))
- `webmcp-call` works with Chromium 155+.
([microsoft/playwright#42915](microsoft/playwright#42915))
- Snapshots quote accessible names that look like regexes, e.g.
`"/home/"`
([microsoft/playwright#42807](microsoft/playwright#42807)).
([microsoft/playwright#42811](microsoft/playwright#42811))
- The bundled skill only preapproves Playwright commands instead of any
`npm` and `npx` command
([microsoft/playwright#42745](microsoft/playwright#42745)).
([microsoft/playwright#42789](microsoft/playwright#42789))
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- Snapshots quote accessible names that look like regexes, e.g.
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([microsoft/playwright#42811](https://redirect.github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/42811))
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## ✨ Highlights

- **🔎 Save `browser_find` results to a file** — new `filename` parameter
writes matches to a file instead of the response
([microsoft/playwright#42077](microsoft/playwright#42077)).
([microsoft/playwright#42968](microsoft/playwright#42968))

## 🐛 Fixes

- `browser_navigate` and `browser_reload` report a dialog opened during
page load instead of timing out
([microsoft/playwright#42817](microsoft/playwright#42817)).
([microsoft/playwright#42908](microsoft/playwright#42908))
- The server no longer crashes when the browser is closed during a
download
([microsoft/playwright#42831](microsoft/playwright#42831)).
([microsoft/playwright#42922](microsoft/playwright#42922))
- `browser_wait_for` reports when `time` is capped at 30 seconds
([microsoft#1767](microsoft#1767)).
([microsoft/playwright#42932](microsoft/playwright#42932))
- WebMCP tools no longer stay bound to a stale tab or frame
([microsoft/playwright#42816](microsoft/playwright#42816)).
([microsoft/playwright#42821](microsoft/playwright#42821))
- WebMCP tool calls work with Chromium 155+.
([microsoft/playwright#42915](microsoft/playwright#42915))
- Snapshots quote accessible names that look like regexes, e.g.
`"/home/"`
([microsoft/playwright#42807](microsoft/playwright#42807)).
([microsoft/playwright#42811](microsoft/playwright#42811))
- The Docker image reaps orphaned browser processes
([microsoft#1769](microsoft#1769)).
([microsoft#1771](microsoft#1771))
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