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fix: id.sky.com tab crash on Windows headless=True (issue #18)

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Two-part fix for the wrapper-repo issue #18 (tab crash on id.sky.com
and similar sites with cross-process navigation):

Part 1 (this commit, wrapper-side):
- _WIN_VIRT_DESKTOP_WORKAROUNDS adds security.sandbox.content.level=4.
  When the Chromium sandbox runs at content level >4 (default 6) it sets
  STARTUPINFO.lpDesktop=kAlternateWinstation for the content process,
  putting it on a different desktop than the browser process. Combined
  with our hidden alt-desktop (CreateDesktop) for headless windows
  hiding, that means cross-process navigations (Adobe AppMeasurement
  triggers a new origin -> new content process) can't reparent windows
  across desktops; the new content process exits cleanly and Playwright
  fires page.on('crash'). Lowering content sandbox to 4 keeps content
  processes on the parent's desktop. Level 4 still blocks file/registry/
  network access; only the alt-winstation isolation is dropped, which
  is what the desktop bug requires.
- README.md adds a Known Issues section pointing at issue #18 with
  the workaround (headless=False or Linux+Xvfb) for users on wrapper
  versions before firefox-7.

Part 2 (separate commit in invisible-firefox@2e17b4871f93):
- CanvasRenderingContext2D::GetImageDataArray moved the stealth pixel
  noise from rawData.mData (read-only DataSourceSurface::Map) to the
  JS Uint8ClampedArray's backing buffer. The original write to a
  read-only mapped surface segfaulted on GPU-backed canvases during
  browser.close() teardown.

Verified end-to-end with InvisiblePlaywright headless=True + Evomi UK
proxy on id.sky.com: page survives, no crash in loop, no crash at
teardown.

Reporter: @gamefireat123-eng.
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@ -203,6 +203,24 @@ invisible_playwright version # wrapper and binary versions
invisible_playwright clear-cache # remove all cached binaries
```
## Known issues
### `headless=True` on Windows can cause tab crashes on sites with heavy cross-process navigation
Reported as [#18](https://github.com/feder-cr/invisible_playwright/issues/18) (`id.sky.com` and similar). On Windows, `headless=True` runs Firefox headed on a hidden alt-desktop created via `CreateDesktop`. Some sites (id.sky.com, anything else loading Adobe AppMeasurement in a way that triggers cross-process navigation) end up firing `page.on('crash')` after about 10 seconds. The cause is a window-parenting interaction between the alt-desktop and the GPU/content processes; the workaround is one of:
```python
# Option A — keep the visible window (no alt-desktop)
with InvisiblePlaywright(seed=42, headless=False) as browser:
...
# Option B — run inside Xvfb on Linux (alt-desktop bug is Windows-only)
```
The visible window case works on every site we've tested. Linux + Xvfb is unaffected.
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## Related projects
invisible_playwright takes a different angle than the major Firefox-hardening projects but stands on their shoulders: