[Feature]: API for window.history.go()

[leotg130]

🚀 Feature Request

Currently Playwright supports both page.goBack() and page.goForward(), but seems to lack the other option that window.history.go() supports, which is multiple history navigations in one go.

Not sure if it even makes sense to keep both the goBack()/goForward(), or if there should be just .go(delta: number, options: {...}).

Might also make sense to expose the entire history API, and if possible more extensively than is allowed by JS on a page, which doesn't have access to the URL's, etc. Though I'm not sure how Playwright instruments the browser, so it might not have any more access than JS on page does.

Example

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Motivation

Allows to better simulate user behavior where user navigates multiple history pages.

[pavelfeldman]

I'd recommend using page.evaluate() to make a call to this window API.

[leotg130]

Yeah, I do use that as a workaround, but would be nicer if Playwright provided it out of the box, no?

[pavelfeldman]

It is so rare, that's the first time it is requested over the last 4 years, so with the clear workaround closing it as "has workaround" is very tempting.

[leotg130]

Fair enough.. I thought a clean API would be nice, and presumably quite simple to do, though I don't know the Playwright internals.

No problem with closing the issue if you don't think it's worth it.