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Camoufox vs Patchright

Two stealth browsers, two philosophies: a Firefox that spoofs the whole device at the C++ level, or a Chromium that patches the automation leaks and otherwise tells the truth. What each is like to drive, and what a site sees.

Camoufox Patchright

Camoufox is a Firefox build (152 on the fleet) that generates a complete device identity at launch — operating system, screen, GPU, cores, fonts, locale, timezone, geolocation — and answers every JavaScript and HTTP question from that identity, inside the engine rather than through injected scripts. Patchright is Playwright's own Chromium (148) with the things that give automation away removed: no Runtime.enable leak, no --enable-automation, console API disabled, closed shadow roots reachable. It doesn't pretend to be another machine. Both run headful by default on the fleet (2 threads) and both were launched through the same proxy for this page.

As a developer: driving them

	Camoufox	Patchright
Engine, Playwright client	Gecko (Firefox 152). Connect with `firefox`.	Blink/V8 (Chromium 148). Connect with `chromium`.
Launch options	The richest set on the fleet: `os`, `locale`, `geoip`, `humanize`, `screen`, `window`, `fonts`, `webgl_config`, a full BrowserForge `fingerprint`, `block_images`/`block_webrtc`/`block_webgl`, pinned `version`, `main_world_eval`.	The common set only: `proxy`, `proxy_rules`, `headless`, timeouts. Identity is whatever the Linux server is.
Where `page.evaluate` runs	In an isolated world. Globals you set there are invisible to the page, and vice versa; for fingerprint checks use `main_world_eval: true` and prefix the expression with `mw:` (measured: works).	In the page's own world — a `<script>` on the page sees what you set (measured). Patchright reaches it without `Runtime.enable`.
`addInitScript`	Runs in the isolated world: the page's scripts don't see its globals (measured).	Works as in Playwright, implemented through routes; the README warns this can interfere with other route handlers.
Console events	Work.	Don't fire (measured): Patchright disables the Console API to close the `Console.enable` leak. Log from the page to the DOM or to your own endpoint instead.
PDF, mobile emulation	No PDF (`page.pdf` is Chromium-only). No device emulation: `isMobile` is not supported in Firefox.	Both work (measured; PDF also worked in this headful run).
Request interception, screenshots, tracing	Work.	Work.
Headless modes	`false` (virtual display, default), `true`.	`false` (default), `"new"`, `"shell"`.

As a scraper: what the site sees

	Camoufox	Patchright
TLS and HTTP/2	Real Firefox: JA4 `t13d1617h2_…`, Firefox's HTTP/2 SETTINGS and header order (`user-agent` before `accept`). Identical on every OS Firefox runs on, so it matches whatever OS the persona claims.	Real Chromium: JA4 `t13d1516h2_…`, Chromium's HTTP/2 SETTINGS and pseudo-header order, `sec-ch-ua` client hints. Matches the Chrome user agent it sends.
Who it says it is	Firefox on a desktop OS picked per session (Windows, macOS or Linux; pin it with `os`), with a matching screen, GPU string ("… or similar"), core count and fonts — different each launch unless you pass a `fingerprint`.	Chrome 148 on Linux x86_64, brand `Chromium` (not `Google Chrome`) in the client hints, 1280×720 screen, the server's 64 cores and 32 GB. Honest, and visibly a Linux server.
Locale and time	`geoip` (default on) reads the proxy's exit and sets the timezone, locale and geolocation to match — measured: our rotating residential proxy exited in Spain in one run and Brazil in another, and the browser followed (`Europe/Madrid`/`es`, then `America/Sao_Paulo`/`pt`) without any code.	`UTC` and `en-US` whatever the proxy says. Set `timezoneId`, `locale` and `geolocation` in `newContext` yourself, or the IP-vs-clock mismatch is the first thing a risk engine sees.
Headless tells	None in headful: no `Headless` UA, 5 plugins, consistent notification permission, `navigator.webdriver` false.	None in headful: same list, `webdriver` false, `window.chrome` present.
WebGL	A consumer GPU from the persona ("Apple M1, or similar", "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 …").	No WebGL context in headful mode on the fleet today (measured; headless has SwiftShader), so bot.sannysoft.com marks "WebGL Vendor" and "WebGL Renderer" red. Cause: Patchright's launcher adds Chromium's `--enable-unsafe-swiftshader` (software WebGL without a GPU) only on macOS, where Playwright adds it everywhere. A fleet-side fix is in progress; this page will be re-measured.
bot.sannysoft.com	1 of 57 checks red: "Chrome (New)" — it is not Chrome, and says so.	2 of 57 red: the two WebGL checks above. Everything else green.
The limit	Cannot pass "is this really Chromium" checks: V8-specific behaviour is impossible to fake from Gecko, and the Camoufox authors say so. Some sites block or degrade Firefox outright.	Cannot pretend to be a Windows or Mac desktop without you faking it, and anything you fake in JavaScript is a Chromium build that can be inspected. The leaks it closes are the automation ones.

Which to pick

Camoufox when the site must see a consistent consumer device and you don't want to build that identity yourself: geo personas (three countries, one script), account work, anything where IP, timezone, language and screen must agree. Accept Firefox rendering and the isolated-world rule.
Patchright when the site needs Chromium — Chromium-only APIs, client hints, V8 quirks — or your tooling does (PDFs, device emulation, console-free is fine). Plan on setting timezone, locale and viewport per context, and on headless mode if WebGL matters until the headful gap is closed.
Neither replaces real Chrome: for sites that check the Google Chrome brand or exact Chrome behaviour, launch Chrome itself — headless tells shows what headful real Chrome still gives away (the GPU), and stealth builds compares all four patched builds.

Measured on the fleet (2026-10-04)

One launch of each with the defaults above, through the same proxy, on the production fleet. Camoufox's persona is regenerated every launch, so its OS, screen, GPU, cores and locale differ between runs; Patchright's values are the server's.

Launch and cost

Single run; timings depend on the proxy and on fleet load.

	Camoufox	Patchright
Launch body	{"headless":false,"main_world_eval":true}	{"headless":false}
Threads used	2 (linux_headful)	2 (linux_headful)
Browser version	152.0.4-beta.30	148.0.7778.96
Launch request → browser ready	3.0 s	0.7 s
Playwright connect	0.0 s	0.1 s
Load example.com	7.2 s	3.6 s
Load tls.peet.ws/api/all	2.9 s	1.4 s

What the network sees

From tls.peet.ws/api/all, requested by the browser itself. JA3 hashes change between runs of the same build (GREASE), so compare JA4 and the HTTP/2 fingerprint.

	Camoufox	Patchright
HTTP version	h2	h2
JA4	t13d1617h2_86a278354501_3cbfd9057e0d	t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_d8a2da3f94cd
Peetprint hash	fd4547eeb41f073156b7bc8125a79a3c	1d4ffe9b0e34acac0bd883fa7f79d7b5
Akamai HTTP/2 fingerprint	1:65536;2:0;4:131072;5:16384\|12517377\|0\|m,p,a,s	1:65536;2:0;4:6291456;6:262144\|15663105\|0\|m,a,s,p
Cipher suites / extensions	16 / 17	16 / 18
Header order (first 12)	method, path, authority, scheme, user-agent, accept, accept-language, accept-encoding, upgrade-insecure-requests, sec-fetch-dest, sec-fetch-mode, sec-fetch-site	method, authority, scheme, path, sec-ch-ua, sec-ch-ua-mobile, sec-ch-ua-platform, upgrade-insecure-requests, user-agent, accept, sec-fetch-site, sec-fetch-mode

What page scripts see

Read with page.evaluate on example.com. Cores and memory are the server's and vary between fleet nodes.

	Camoufox	Patchright
navigator.userAgent	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
UA-CH brands	—	Not/A)Brand 99 · Chromium 148
UA-CH full version list	—	Not/A)Brand 99.0.0.0 · Chromium 148.0.7778.96
navigator.platform / vendor	MacIntel / ""	Linux x86_64 / Google Inc.
Languages	pt-BR, pt	en-US
Timezone / locale	America/Sao_Paulo / pt	UTC / en-US
Screen (w×h×availW×availH×depth)	1440x900x1440x900x30	1280x720x1280x720x24
Window outer / inner / DPR	1440x900 / 1280x720 / 1	1288x805 / 1280x720 / 1
hardwareConcurrency / deviceMemory	2 / —	36 / 32
WebGL vendor	Apple	—
WebGL renderer	Apple M1, or similar	—
WebGL version	WebGL 2.0	—
WebGPU (navigator.gpu)	no	yes
Canvas hash	c6b0b0da	f5a94624
navigator.webdriver	no	no
window.chrome / navigator.connection	no / no	yes / yes
Plugins / PDF viewer	5 / yes	5 / yes
Notification.permission / permissions.query	default / prompt	default / prompt

Web platform features

Presence probes; a user agent that claims one version while exposing another's features is a detectable inconsistency.

	Camoufox	Patchright
`Iterator.prototype.includes` (new in Chrome 154)	no	no
`FontFace.width` (new in Chrome 154)	no	no
CSS `text-decoration-inset` (new in Chrome 154)	yes	no
`Iterator.prototype.join` (Chrome 153)	no	no
`Iterator.zip` (Chrome 153)	yes	no
CSS `scroll-axis-lock` (Chrome 153)	no	no
`<camera>` element (Chrome 153)	no	no
`document.requestStorageAccessFor` (deprecated in 153)	no	yes
Topics API (`document.browsingTopics`)	no	yes
Protected Audience (`navigator.joinAdInterestGroup`)	no	yes
Shared Storage (`window.sharedStorage`)	no	yes
Attribution Reporting (`window.attributionReporting`)	no	no
Private Aggregation	no	no
WebHID (`navigator.hid`)	no	yes

bot.sannysoft.com

The classic headless-detection test page; what it marks red.

	Camoufox	Patchright
Checks / failed	57 / 1	57 / 2
Failed checks	Chrome (New)	WebGL Vendor, WebGL Renderer

A plain-HTTP URL (http://ip-api.com/json)

Chrome 154 warns before loading insecure HTTP by default — does that reach an automated session?

	Camoufox	Patchright
Final URL	http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status	http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status
HTTP status	200	200
Content loaded / warning page first	yes / no	yes / no

Playwright over the remote connection

Which client features work on this side.

	Camoufox	Patchright
page.evaluate runs in the page's own world	no	yes
`main_world_eval` option (`mw:` prefix)	yes	—
addInitScript visible to page scripts	no	yes
Console events	yes	no
Request interception (page.route)	yes	yes
Screenshot	yes	yes
PDF	no — Error: page.pdf: PDF generation is only supported for Headless Chromium	yes
Mobile device emulation	no — Error: browser.newContext: options.isMobile is not supported in Firefox	yes
Tracing	yes	yes

Rows where the two sides differ are highlighted. IP addresses are replaced with placeholders (203.0.113.x). The probe is compare/probe.mjs in our repository; the raw result is below.

Raw output

{
  "ran_at": "2026-10-04T21:09:08.778Z",
  "sides": [
    {
      "label": "Camoufox",
      "engine": "camoufox",
      "body": {
        "headless": false,
        "main_world_eval": true
      },
      "launch": {
        "browser": "camoufox",
        "resource_class": "linux_headful",
        "weight": 2,
        "launch_ms": 3015,
        "connect_ms": 32,
        "example_ms": 7174,
        "peet_ms": 2899
      },
      "network": {
        "http_version": "h2",
        "ja4": "t13d1617h2_86a278354501_3cbfd9057e0d",
        "ja3_hash": "6447ab086255d194909d4013b1a89e87",
        "peetprint_hash": "fd4547eeb41f073156b7bc8125a79a3c",
        "ciphers": 16,
        "extensions": 17,
        "akamai_h2": "1:65536;2:0;4:131072;5:16384|12517377|0|m,p,a,s",
        "akamai_h2_hash": "6ea73faa8fc5aac76bded7bd238f6433",
        "header_order": [
          "method",
          "path",
          "authority",
          "scheme",
          "user-agent",
          "accept",
          "accept-language",
          "accept-encoding",
          "upgrade-insecure-requests",
          "sec-fetch-dest",
          "sec-fetch-mode",
          "sec-fetch-site"
        ]
      },
      "page": {
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0",
        "platform": "MacIntel",
        "vendor": "",
        "languages": [
          "pt-BR",
          "pt"
        ],
        "hardware_concurrency": 2,
        "device_memory": null,
        "max_touch_points": 0,
        "webdriver": false,
        "plugins": 5,
        "pdf_viewer": true,
        "ua_data": null,
        "screen": "1440x900x1440x900x30",
        "window": {
          "outer": "1440x900",
          "inner": "1280x720",
          "dpr": 1
        },
        "timezone": "America/Sao_Paulo",
        "locale": "pt",
        "webgl": {
          "vendor": "Apple",
          "renderer": "Apple M1, or similar",
          "version": "WebGL 2.0"
        },
        "canvas_hash": "c6b0b0da",
        "webgpu": false,
        "chrome_object": false,
        "chrome_runtime": false,
        "notification_permission": "default",
        "notification_query": "prompt",
        "has_focus": true,
        "connection_api": false,
        "stack_read_by_debugger": false,
        "features": {
          "iterator_includes": false,
          "iterator_join": false,
          "iterator_zip": true,
          "fontface_width": false,
          "css_text_decoration_inset": true,
          "css_scroll_axis_lock": false,
          "websocket_options_bag": null,
          "camera_element": false,
          "topics_api": false,
          "protected_audience": false,
          "shared_storage": false,
          "attribution_reporting": false,
          "request_storage_access_for": false,
          "webhid": false,
          "private_aggregation": false
        }
      },
      "page_main_world": {
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0",
        "platform": "MacIntel",
        "vendor": "",
        "languages": [
          "pt-BR",
          "pt"
        ],
        "hardware_concurrency": 2,
        "device_memory": null,
        "max_touch_points": 0,
        "webdriver": false,
        "plugins": 5,
        "pdf_viewer": true,
        "ua_data": null,
        "screen": "1440x900x1440x900x30",
        "window": {
          "outer": "1440x900",
          "inner": "1280x720",
          "dpr": 1
        },
        "timezone": "America/Sao_Paulo",
        "locale": "pt",
        "webgl": {
          "vendor": "Apple",
          "renderer": "Apple M1, or similar",
          "version": "WebGL 2.0"
        },
        "canvas_hash": "c6b0b0da",
        "webgpu": false,
        "chrome_object": false,
        "chrome_runtime": false,
        "notification_permission": "default",
        "notification_query": "prompt",
        "has_focus": true,
        "connection_api": false,
        "stack_read_by_debugger": false,
        "features": {
          "iterator_includes": false,
          "iterator_join": false,
          "iterator_zip": true,
          "fontface_width": false,
          "css_text_decoration_inset": true,
          "css_scroll_axis_lock": false,
          "websocket_options_bag": null,
          "camera_element": false,
          "topics_api": false,
          "protected_audience": false,
          "shared_storage": false,
          "attribution_reporting": false,
          "request_storage_access_for": false,
          "webhid": false,
          "private_aggregation": false
        }
      },
      "sannysoft": {
        "checks": 57,
        "failed": 1,
        "failed_names": [
          "Chrome (New)"
        ],
        "passed": 30
      },
      "plain_http": {
        "final_url": "http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status",
        "status": 200,
        "title": "",
        "loaded": true,
        "warning_page": false,
        "page_text": "{\"status\":\"success\"}"
      },
      "playwright": {
        "evaluate_in_main_world": false,
        "console_events": true,
        "init_script": false,
        "route": true,
        "screenshot": true,
        "pdf": false,
        "pdf_error": "Error: page.pdf: PDF generation is only supported for Headless Chromium",
        "mobile_emulation": false,
        "mobile_emulation_error": "Error: browser.newContext: options.isMobile is not supported in Firefox",
        "tracing": true,
        "main_world_eval_option": true
      },
      "browser_version": "152.0.4-beta.30"
    },
    {
      "label": "Patchright",
      "engine": "patchright",
      "body": {
        "headless": false
      },
      "launch": {
        "browser": "patchright",
        "resource_class": "linux_headful",
        "weight": 2,
        "launch_ms": 668,
        "connect_ms": 136,
        "example_ms": 3555,
        "peet_ms": 1369
      },
      "network": {
        "http_version": "h2",
        "ja4": "t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_d8a2da3f94cd",
        "ja3_hash": "4501f4f24ffd84ab8f9cd850eace9a3a",
        "peetprint_hash": "1d4ffe9b0e34acac0bd883fa7f79d7b5",
        "ciphers": 16,
        "extensions": 18,
        "akamai_h2": "1:65536;2:0;4:6291456;6:262144|15663105|0|m,a,s,p",
        "akamai_h2_hash": "52d84b11737d980aef856699f885ca86",
        "header_order": [
          "method",
          "authority",
          "scheme",
          "path",
          "sec-ch-ua",
          "sec-ch-ua-mobile",
          "sec-ch-ua-platform",
          "upgrade-insecure-requests",
          "user-agent",
          "accept",
          "sec-fetch-site",
          "sec-fetch-mode"
        ]
      },
      "page": {
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
        "platform": "Linux x86_64",
        "vendor": "Google Inc.",
        "languages": [
          "en-US"
        ],
        "hardware_concurrency": 36,
        "device_memory": 32,
        "max_touch_points": 0,
        "webdriver": false,
        "plugins": 5,
        "pdf_viewer": true,
        "ua_data": {
          "brands": [
            {
              "brand": "Not/A)Brand",
              "version": "99"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Chromium",
              "version": "148"
            }
          ],
          "mobile": false,
          "platform": "Linux",
          "architecture": "x86",
          "bitness": "64",
          "formFactors": [
            "Desktop"
          ],
          "fullVersionList": [
            {
              "brand": "Not/A)Brand",
              "version": "99.0.0.0"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Chromium",
              "version": "148.0.7778.96"
            }
          ],
          "model": "",
          "platformVersion": "",
          "uaFullVersion": "148.0.7778.96",
          "wow64": false
        },
        "screen": "1280x720x1280x720x24",
        "window": {
          "outer": "1288x805",
          "inner": "1280x720",
          "dpr": 1
        },
        "timezone": "UTC",
        "locale": "en-US",
        "webgl": {
          "vendor": null,
          "renderer": null,
          "version": null
        },
        "canvas_hash": "f5a94624",
        "webgpu": true,
        "chrome_object": true,
        "chrome_runtime": false,
        "notification_permission": "default",
        "notification_query": "prompt",
        "has_focus": true,
        "connection_api": true,
        "stack_read_by_debugger": false,
        "features": {
          "iterator_includes": false,
          "iterator_join": false,
          "iterator_zip": false,
          "fontface_width": false,
          "css_text_decoration_inset": false,
          "css_scroll_axis_lock": false,
          "websocket_options_bag": null,
          "camera_element": false,
          "topics_api": true,
          "protected_audience": true,
          "shared_storage": true,
          "attribution_reporting": false,
          "request_storage_access_for": true,
          "webhid": true,
          "private_aggregation": false
        }
      },
      "page_main_world": null,
      "sannysoft": {
        "checks": 57,
        "failed": 2,
        "failed_names": [
          "WebGL Vendor",
          "WebGL Renderer"
        ],
        "passed": 29
      },
      "plain_http": {
        "final_url": "http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status",
        "status": 200,
        "title": "",
        "loaded": true,
        "warning_page": false,
        "page_text": "{\"status\":\"success\"}"
      },
      "playwright": {
        "evaluate_in_main_world": true,
        "console_events": false,
        "init_script": true,
        "route": true,
        "screenshot": true,
        "pdf": true,
        "mobile_emulation": true,
        "tracing": true
      },
      "browser_version": "148.0.7778.96"
    }
  ]
}

Bottom line

The two aren't rivals so much as answers to different questions. Patchright asks "how do I stop Playwright from announcing itself?" and answers it well, leaving the machine's identity to you. Camoufox asks "what should the machine look like?" and answers that, at the price of being Firefox.

In practice: Chromium-shaped problems go to Patchright (with your own context settings), identity-shaped problems go to Camoufox, and when a site must see genuine Chrome, run genuine Chrome.