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title: Browser Lifecycle
description: 'Runtime-level live, recording, and stop operations.'
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Runtime-level live, recording, and stop operations.

## Support Matrix

| Capability                                 | Playwright | Puppeteer | Stagehand | browser-use |
| ------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------- | --------- | ----------- |
| [`context.close`](./context-close)         | Yes        |           |           |             |
| [`runtime.live`](./runtime-live)           | Yes        | Yes       | Yes       | Yes         |
| [`runtime.recording`](./runtime-recording) | Yes        | Yes       | Yes       | Yes         |
| [`runtime.stop`](./runtime-stop)           | Yes        | Yes       | Yes       | Yes         |

## Capabilities

* [`context.close`](./context-close) - Close the current browser context.
* [`runtime.live`](./runtime-live) - Mint a live embed for the browser runtime.
* [`runtime.recording`](./runtime-recording) - Mint a recording embed for the browser runtime.
* [`runtime.stop`](./runtime-stop) - Stop the live browser environment owned by the runtime.