According to a Google I/O '18 talk, the Google web crawler runs Chrome 41. That's pretty old. Here are what features you can and can't use for it: https://caniuse.com/#compare=chrome+41 …
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Replying to @MalwareMinigun @ProgramMax
Safely running browser engines in crawlers is a Hard Problem(tm). They've been planning to fix that for a long time. Investments in Chrome's headless mode make that more practical than ever.
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Replying to @ericlaw @ProgramMax
But why would running some really old copy make it an easier problem?
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Replying to @MalwareMinigun @ProgramMax
Because you tweaked the hell out of the source to make it do what you needed.
4:41 PM - 15 Sep 2018
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