Show HN: We packaged an MCP server inside Chromium

40 pointsposted a day ago
by felarof
(github.com)

12 Comments

pylotlight

15 hours ago

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)

felarof

14 hours ago

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.

esafak

17 hours ago

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/

felarof

17 hours ago

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!

xnx

19 hours ago

> 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/...

felarof

19 hours ago

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. ```

shadowfax92

20 hours ago

i vibe coded an HN clone in nextjs using this mcp server + claude code under 5 mins - https://dub.sh/yBOjNyL

was freaking cool

imcritic

19 hours ago

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!

felarof

19 hours ago

haha fair point. but here you can clone any website's design as inspiration to build on top of it

etwigg

19 hours ago

In what way is this different than Playwright MCP?

felarof

19 hours ago

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.

_boffin_

18 hours ago

You can load use profiles, cookies and more during startup and get the logged in sessions.