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Option "Show the crawl in a headed browser" not present

Ilia | Last updated: Jan 01, 2023 07:04PM UTC

Hi, I'm trying to start a Scan using the Burp's Browser for crawl and audit. I also want to be able to watch the crawler in a headed browser, so I've been looking for the option "Show the crawl in a headed browser" that should come with version 2020.11.2. I'm currently using Burp Suite Professional v2022.12.5, but I don't see this option in the "Miscellaneous" tab of the crawling configuration. There are only three options in the "Burp's Browser" area in my case: - "Use Burp's browser for Crawl and Audit", - "Fetch required resources and data from out-of-scope hosts" and - "Read timeout for site resources". I am using Burp on a Linux machine (Parrot OS 5.1) with 16 GB of RAM storage and a 4-core CPU. Originally the file "chrome-sandbox" in the corresponding burpbrowser folder was owned by a local user, so I changed the ownership to root using the commands from this forum post [https://forum.portswigger.net/thread/crawl-was-configured-to-use-embedded-browser-but-a-browser-could-not-be-started-4c02fc17]. After that, I restarted burp, but I still don't see the "Show the crawl in a headed browser" option. Do you have any ideas on that issue?

Ilia | Last updated: Jan 01, 2023 09:51PM UTC

I was able to find the "Live crawl view" tab where I can watch the crawling process. But there is actually no button in the crawl configuration to explicitly enable it. For those who are also looking for the option, the "Live crawl view" can be found in the details of the running scan.

Ben, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jan 03, 2023 05:22PM UTC