I was tired of being a human button-clicker for UI testing while developing with Claude. On my commute home one evening, I started venting to Claude about the pain: I wanted an AI that could control a browser autonomously while I watched, without hijacking my mouse.
Thirty minutes of validation later, "you are up-to something", "this is a great idea", "this doesn't really exist yet" and "you'd have to build it yourself" and "it's doable but nobody's packaged it up yet"... I finally pushed it to search more aggressively. That's when it found mcp-playwright-novnc, a Docker image that runs Playwright MCP with Xvfb + x11vnc + noVNC, so Claude controls an isolated browser while you watch the whole thing live in your web browser. Your mouse stays completely free. Kudos to the author and Thanks
bicepjai•1h ago
Thirty minutes of validation later, "you are up-to something", "this is a great idea", "this doesn't really exist yet" and "you'd have to build it yourself" and "it's doable but nobody's packaged it up yet"... I finally pushed it to search more aggressively. That's when it found mcp-playwright-novnc, a Docker image that runs Playwright MCP with Xvfb + x11vnc + noVNC, so Claude controls an isolated browser while you watch the whole thing live in your web browser. Your mouse stays completely free. Kudos to the author and Thanks