Hello monks!

I read on the documentation of WWW::Mechanize::Chrome that this is the support forum of the module... grin.. grin..

First of all thanks for this wonderful module! What I'm trying, having success, is the automation of a very complex page full of js and other amenities, but following questions are also applicable to other websites I suppose. So here the questions (my setup at the end of the post):

1) this is really silly: I see a banner in the browser telling me that the software is controlled by automation software. Is this perceivible by websites part? I mean: something in the useragent will tell is a automation bot? or examining the access log?

2) even with incognito => 0 in the constructor, the browser (both chrome and chromium) opens always a normal window and an incognito one, the second one is automated.

I didnt find much about incognito mode on the web nor grepping the distribution

3) tabs: I understood that tab => "Title of The Tab" in the constructor is meant to connect to a previously open tab. But how if every instance of chrome/chromium has to be shutdown before mechanize it? See here too

Short answers are welcome too. I mean I fear to not understand too much under the hood details ;)

My setup: 

windows 7 
strawberry perl portable 5.24.1 
PATH=C:\ulisse\perl5.24-64b\perl\site\bin;C:\ulisse\perl5.24-64b\perl\
+bin;C:\ulisse\perl5.24-64b\c\bin;C:\ulisse\bin\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbi
+n;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;
chrome version  81.0.4044.129 (Build ufficiale) (a 64 bit)
chromium Versione 84.0.4135.0 (Build) (a 64 bit)
perl -MWWW::Mechanize::Chrome -e "print $WWW::Mechanize::Chrome::VERSI
+ON"    0.48
perl -MIO::Async -e "print $IO::Async::VERSION"    0.75
# fails test (forced installation) see my report at http://www.cpantes
+ters.org/cpan/report/7a39b6be-6c02-1014-bdb8-3bd4031ef651

[download]

Thanks!

L*

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In reply to some doubts on my first steps with WWW::Mechanize::Chrome by Discipulus

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