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Open nealrauhauser opened this issue 3 weeks ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I just installed this MCP server for Claude Code. My system has Chrome, which I use for many things, Brave, which I use just for avoiding YouTube ads, and I've started using Comet+Perplexity in my work environment. Chromium lurks as well, for when I need a "like Chrome but not" for testing.

When I ask for information about what a browser is doing, the system always starts a new Chrome, and it's a curious thing, in that it lacks access to any of my profiles.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to select any Chrome compatible browser, in particular there should be support for launching a non-default browser.

Either prior to or after launch we should have the option to pick which profile is to be used.

it would be great if there were a way to configure command line options for the invocation - so we can decide to use an http or SOCKS5 proxy as part of a debugging process.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Not sure what to say here, if this is going to be a Chrome friendly MCP, it should cover all of Chromedom, not just the one browser.

Additional context

No response

nealrauhauser avatar Dec 23 '25 07:12 nealrauhauser

cc @natorion

OrKoN avatar Jan 07 '26 14:01 OrKoN

We are only supporting Chrome officially. You can point the MCP server to any binary though. Please take a look at --browser-url and --executable-path command line parameters as mentioned in https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration.

If the target speaks the right and up-to-date CDP (meaning, what Chrome and Chromium vanilla speaks) it ought to work.

natorion avatar Jan 08 '26 09:01 natorion