# II - Opening & controlling a page

**Learn how to create and open a Page with a Browser, and how to use it to visit and programmatically interact with a website.**

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When you open up your regular browser and visit a website, you open up a new page (or tab) before entering the URL in the search bar and hitting the **Enter** key. In Playwright and Puppeteer, you also have to open up a new page before visiting a URL. This can be done with the `browser.newPage()` function, which will return a **Page** object ([Puppeteer](https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v13.7.0&show=api-class-page), [Playwright](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page)).

* Playwright
* Puppeteer


```
import { chromium } from 'playwright';

const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });

// Open a new page
const page = await browser.newPage();

await browser.close();
```



```
import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false });

// Open a new page
const page = await browser.newPage();

await browser.close();
```


Then, we can visit a website with the `page.goto()` method. Let's go to [Google](https://google.com) for now. We'll also use the `page.waitForTimeout()` function, which will force the program to wait for a number of seconds before quitting (otherwise, everything will flash before our eyes and we won't really be able to tell what's going on):

* Playwright
* Puppeteer


```
import { chromium } from 'playwright';

const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });

// Open a new page
const page = await browser.newPage();

// Visit Google
await page.goto('https://google.com');

// wait for 10 seconds before shutting down
await page.waitForTimeout(10000);

await browser.close();
```



```
import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false });

// Open a new page
const page = await browser.newPage();

// Visit Google
await page.goto('https://google.com');

// wait for 10 seconds before shutting down
await page.waitForTimeout(10000);

await browser.close();
```


> If you haven't already, go ahead and run this code to see what happens.

## Next up

Now that we know how to open up a page, [let's learn](https://pr-2338.preview.docs.apify.com/academy/puppeteer-playwright/page/interacting-with-a-page.md) how to automate page interaction, such as clicking, typing, and pressing keys.