I am using playwright to automate some testing with Firefox. I use this starting code:

const { firefox } = require('playwright');



(async () => {

    const browser = await firefox.launch();

    // Create pages, interact with UI elements, assert values

    await browser.close();

})();

but it fails to execute. Here is the error that is logged:

(node:756) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: browserType.launch: Protocol error (Browser.enable): Browser closed.

==================== Browser output: ====================

<launching> C:UsersEtshAppDataLocalms-playwrightfirefox-1238firefoxfirefox.exe -no-remote -headless -profile C:UsersEtshAppDataLocalTempplaywright_firefoxdev_profile-aruia1 -juggler-pipe -silent

<launched> pid=8500

=========================== logs ===========================

<launching> C:UsersEtshAppDataLocalms-playwrightfirefox-1238firefoxfirefox.exe -no-remote -headless -profile C:UsersEtshAppDataLocalTempplaywright_firefoxdev_profile-aruia1 -juggler-pipe -silent

<launched> pid=8500

============================================================

Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable to capture Playwright logs.

Error

    at Object.captureStackTrace (D:Projectssnkrs-playnode_modulesplaywrightlibutilsstackTrace.js:48:19)

    at Connection.sendMessageToServer (D:Projectssnkrs-playnode_modulesplaywrightlibclientconnection.js:69:48)

    at Proxy.<anonymous> (D:Projectssnkrs-playnode_modulesplaywrightlibclientchannelOwner.js:64:61)

    at D:Projectssnkrs-playnode_modulesplaywrightlibclientbrowserType.js:64:67

    at BrowserType._wrapApiCall (D:Projectssnkrs-playnode_modulesplaywrightlibclientchannelOwner.js:77:34)

    at BrowserType.launch (D:Projectssnkrs-playnode_modulesplaywrightlibclientbrowserType.js:55:21)

    at D:Projectssnkrs-playindex.js:4:35

    at Object.<anonymous> (D:Projectssnkrs-playindex.js:7:3)

    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)

(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)

(node:756) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)

(node:756) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

I included this variable DEBUG=pw in a .env file so that it would log playwright logs, and I think the first few logs are playwright's.
I then tried opening the installed firefox to check if it works and it does. Here is a screenshot of the build: