Claude needs to drop the required login to use their platform. I get it if you want to use their premium models, but just yesterday I tried to use their LLM. It prompted me a couple of times to log in and I dropped off immediately and went back to ChatGPT. Just a dumb decision in my eyes

Essentially a replacement for Chrome Devtools MCP, liberating your context from MCP definitions. However, the reviews are poor: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude/fcoeoabgfene...

Did some early qualitative testing on this. Definitely seems easier for Claude to handle than playwright MCP servers for one-off web dev QA tasks. Not really built for e2e testing though and lacks the GUI features of cursors latest browser integration.

Also seems quite a bit slower (needs more loops) do to general web tasks strictly through the browser extension compared to other browser native AI-assistant extensions.

Overall —- great step in the right direction. Looks like this will be table stakes for every coding agent (cli or VS Code plugin, browser extension [or native browser])

They seem to not be up to the load of moving this to all paid plans. I'm getting nothing but "Unable to initialize the chat session. Please check your connection and try again." which, from the plugin reviews, seems common.

Had great success with this prompt: “QA this website for me. Report all bugs”

All this talk of safety but they are using Debugger permission that exposes your device to vulnerabilities, slows down your machine, and get you captchas/bot detected on sites

Working on a competing extension, rtrvr.ai, but we are more focused on vibe scraping use cases. We engineered ours to avoid these sensitive/risky permissions and Claude should too, especially when releasing for end consumers

Excited to give this one a try.

I've been using the previous Claude+Chrome integration and had not found many uses for it. Even when they updated Haiku it was still quite slow for some copy and paste between forms tasks.

Integrating with Claude Code feels like it might work better for glue between a bunch of weird tasks. As an example, copying content into/out of Jupyter/Marimo notebooks, being able to go from some results in the terminal into a viz tool, etc.

Good to see. Google only has this feature in experimental mode for $125/month subscribers: https://labs.google.com/mariner/landing

Google allows AI browser automation through Gemini CLI as well, but it's not interactive and doesn't have ready access to the main browser profile.