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Browser automation tools
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 11 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Browser automation tools, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Copying a link takes many steps and imprecise mouse selection causes repeated errors2026-08-31
- Mistyped entries get remembered and ranked higher, sending users to wrong pages2026-05-14
- Agent fails on unusual sites, can't pick div-based select boxes, loops on disabled submit2026-03-09
- Text in the first image takes about 10 seconds to become selectable2024-03-31
- Typing a dotted term like chrome.search navigates to a URL instead of searching2022-11-12
- Most existing automation tools have clunky UX and are hard to get started on2021-11-17
- Typo'd domains get searched instead of reported as nonexistent; https:// must be typed manually2021-10-15
- Typing a URL triggers a search instead of navigating, adding an unwanted step2021-10-14
- Typing a bare intranet hostname goes to a Google search instead of the site2020-09-02
- Lack of usable development tools makes building browser games hard2019-10-29
- Controls ignore platform subtleties, causing many small usability annoyances2017-03-24
- Must add custom search engines to every browser and device separately2015-10-06