Upgrade Playwright to 1.61.0-alpha-2026-06-04

[Joaquín Ruales (jruales)]

• Includes 1.60 features (https://playwright.dev/docs/release-notes#version-160)
• Also includes this change from Playwright:
  • chore(browserType): merge connectOverCDP and connectOverCDPTransport playwright#41014

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Pull request overview

This PR upgrades the repo’s playwright-core dependency to 1.61.0-alpha-2026-05-29 and updates the BrowserView Playwright integration to use the newer/public CDP connection API in playwright-core.

Changes:

• Bump playwright-core from 1.59.1 to 1.61.0-alpha-2026-05-29.
• Replace the private _connectOverCDPTransport module-augmentation approach with ConnectOverCDPTransport and chromium.connectOverCDP(...).
• Adjust the CDP transport send path and synthetic response typing to match the new API surface.

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File	Description
src/vs/platform/browserView/node/playwrightService.ts	Migrates the CDP connection to Playwright’s newer connectOverCDP + ConnectOverCDPTransport types.
package.json	Updates the playwright-core dependency version.
package-lock.json	Locks the repo to the updated playwright-core tarball/version.

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