I personally wasn't a fan of having something so similar to chrome. I hate chrome so chrome + ai just wasn't what I was looking for.
Currently using orion on mac, and despite it's buggyness, its still got features/layout/design/extensions that I prefer to run currently. (Specific extension support being a big one)
I went back to Chrome after suffering bugs in BrowserOS, and Chrome recently added a powerful Gemini feature that does what I suggested to your team when you announced your product. I just could not derive any value from BrowserOS.
Ohh man, this definitely hurts. We were a team of 2 until recently and we've been working hard to get through the backlog of feature requests as fast as possible.
I think we've definitely improved the product a lot since we launched, you should try it out!
The BrowserOS-as-MCP server we believe is a nice useful + differentiated feature that other browsers don't have. You can use BrowserOS with claude-code, claude-desktop or gemini-cli for many useful things!
Hmm I've tried. Google chrome doesn't allow starting `--remote-debugging-port` on main profiles. Logs below from my MacOS. not sure if it allows on other OSes.
No resulting code, just a page rendered similarly. I could save you those 5 mins: just open any site and hit Ctrl+u, Ctrl+a, ctrl-c - done, you now have vibecoded a clone of any site to your clipboard!
good question. key difference is MCP server is built right into the browser and works with your logged sessions. One-click to connect, no CDP setup needed. Also supports multiple parallel connections via MCP http transport.
I personally wasn't a fan of having something so similar to chrome. I hate chrome so chrome + ai just wasn't what I was looking for. Currently using orion on mac, and despite it's buggyness, its still got features/layout/design/extensions that I prefer to run currently. (Specific extension support being a big one)
I see. Let me know if I got it correctly: if the UI of our browser looked different than Chrome, you would use that?
We kept the UI same because we felt people tend to have affinity towards using something they are familiar with.
I went back to Chrome after suffering bugs in BrowserOS, and Chrome recently added a powerful Gemini feature that does what I suggested to your team when you announced your product. I just could not derive any value from BrowserOS.
https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/
Ohh man, this definitely hurts. We were a team of 2 until recently and we've been working hard to get through the backlog of feature requests as fast as possible.
I think we've definitely improved the product a lot since we launched, you should try it out!
The BrowserOS-as-MCP server we believe is a nice useful + differentiated feature that other browsers don't have. You can use BrowserOS with claude-code, claude-desktop or gemini-cli for many useful things!
> unlike chrome-devtools-mcp which starts a fresh headless instance each time
I'm pretty sure chrome-devtools-mcp can connect to a running instance: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/remote-debugging/...
Hmm I've tried. Google chrome doesn't allow starting `--remote-debugging-port` on main profiles. Logs below from my MacOS. not sure if it allows on other OSes.
``` [I] ~ /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --enable-logging=stderr --remote-debugging-port=9445 (base) [27920:145785320:1017/131556.797325:INFO:components/enterprise/browser/controller/chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc:206] No machine level policy manager exists.
DevTools remote debugging requires a non-default data directory. Specify this using --user-data-dir. ```
i vibe coded an HN clone in nextjs using this mcp server + claude code under 5 mins - https://dub.sh/yBOjNyL
was freaking cool
No resulting code, just a page rendered similarly. I could save you those 5 mins: just open any site and hit Ctrl+u, Ctrl+a, ctrl-c - done, you now have vibecoded a clone of any site to your clipboard!
haha fair point. but here you can clone any website's design as inspiration to build on top of it
In what way is this different than Playwright MCP?
good question. key difference is MCP server is built right into the browser and works with your logged sessions. One-click to connect, no CDP setup needed. Also supports multiple parallel connections via MCP http transport.
You can load use profiles, cookies and more during startup and get the logged in sessions.