[Feature Request] Add automatic wait option after navigation actions

[Nemo64]

Problem Description

Currently, many navigation actions require a waiting period until the next page is actually available. This creates unnecessary tool calls because the navigation tool call initially returns nothing, forcing the LLM to intelligently re-read the page content.

Feature Request

It would be helpful to have an option to automatically wait (e.g., 1 second) after each navigation action. This would:

• Reduce context usage: Fewer tool calls needed to achieve the same result
• Reduce tool call count: No need for separate wait/read operations after navigation

Proposed Solution

Add a configuration option (e.g., --navigation-wait-duiration 1000) that automatically introduces a brief wait period after navigation operations before returning control to the LLM.

Alternative Solutions

• Add this as a parameter to individual navigation calls rather than a global setting
• Implement smart waiting that detects when page load is complete rather than using fixed delays
  This would significantly improve the developer experience when working with playwright-mcp for navigation-heavy automation tasks.

[pavelfeldman]

Timeout is rarely a solution. If the page is not "loaded", initial snapshots won't be heavy as well. Either way, we would not want to solve it with a timeout. We could consider some other visual readiness heuristic though. If you have a good page that would benefit from it, please share the URL.

[Nemo64]

If there is a good way to do it, then great. The automatic wait time would have been a workaround.

One really good example is GitHub itself. It doesn't use traditional page loads, so navigating it is difficult.
If you use Claude Desktop to find existing issues, then it always adds a sleep(3) call after clicking a link since the page has not changed yet. Funny enough, the Research Preview of Claude's Chrome extension works the same, making me think it uses a very similar API. GPT-5 in Codex works similarly but only adds one second of delay... the page is usually already loaded by the time the LLMs start the sleep tool call.