[Bug]: Edge crashes before finishing the test execution

[praveen-vicroads]

Version

1.60.0

Steps to reproduce

OS: Windows 10
Node: v26.2.0
Edge installed locally: Version 149.0.4022.80

From Playwright version 1.60.0 onwards, the Edge browser crashes before executing the full test. But works fine on Chrome and Firefox.

It works fine with 1.59.0 and previous versions.

I have only these packages:

"@playwright/test": "^1.60.0",
"dotenv": "^17.4.2",
"playwright-bdd": "^9.2.0",
"ts-node": "^10.9.2",
"typescript": "^6.0.3"

And my config has the below code and the .env has edge as BROWSER.

projects: [
    {
      name: 'msedge',
      use: {
        browserName: 'chromium',
        channel: process.env.BROWSER === 'edge' ? 'msedge' : undefined
       },
    },
  ]

Expected behavior

It should pass on Edge.

Actual behavior

Crashes only on Edge and throws error Error: browserContext.close: Target page, context or browser has been closed

Additional context

No response

Environment

System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.19045
    CPU: (22) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 165H
    Memory: 10.10 GB / 31.45 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 26.2.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    npm: 11.13.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  IDEs:
    VSCode: 1.124.2 - C:\Users\<<user>>\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.CMD
  Languages:
    Bash: 5.2.37 - C:\Users\<<user>>\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin\bash.EXE
npmPackages:
    @playwright/test: ^1.60.0 => 1.61.1
    playwright-bdd: ^9.2.0 => 9.2.0

[pavelfeldman]

We need exact steps we can perform to reproduce the issue.

[praveen-vicroads]

We need exact steps we can perform to reproduce the issue.

Thank you.

The test was for opening an internal application using work Microsoft account and it will immediately crash the Edge browser when entering password and selecting Yes for staying Sign-In.

• It works on Chrome
• But will work on Edge only if I downgrade Playwright to 1.59.0

[praveen-vicroads]

@pavelfeldman: I was able to quickly push a test. Please do check this repo.

All the details have added to readme.

Thank you.