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This is cool. I'm curious why you chose to use an extension, rather than getting the user to run Chrome with remote debugging turned on?
I think this is bullshit. Isn't the dom or whatever sent to the model api?
> Private > Since automation happens locally, your browser activity stays on your device and isn't sent to remote servers. I think this is bullshit. Isn't the dom or whatever sent to the model api?
When you automate using a remote browser, another service (not the AI model) gets all of the browsing activity and any information you send (e.g. usernames and passwords) that's required for the automation.
With Browser MCP, since you're automating locally, your sensitive data and browser activity (apart from the results of MCP tool calls that's sent to the AI model) stay on your device.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not OP but I suspect it is because of this (mentioned on their page): 'Avoids bot detection and CAPTCHAs by using your real browser fingerprint.'
I don't think remote debugging by itself on a normal chrome profile is detectable
> Private > Since automation happens locally, your browser activity stays on your device and isn't sent to remote servers. I think this is bullshit. Isn't the dom or whatever sent to the model api?
Of course, you're sending data to the AI model, but the "private" aspect is contrasting automating using a local browser vs. automating using a remote browser. When you automate using a remote browser, another service (not the AI model) gets all of the browsing activity and any information you send (e.g. usernames and passwords) that's required for the automation. With Browser MCP, since you're automating locally, yo…
A lot of non technical people are using these tools to "vibe" their way to productivity. I would explicitly tell them that potentially "all" of their browsing data is going to be exposed to their LLM client and they need to use this at their own risk.
Any plans to make a Firefox version?
Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't expose WebDriver BiDi (the standardized version of CDP) to browser extensions AFAIK (someone please correct me if I'm mistaken!), so I don't think I can support it even if I tried.
- https://github.com/mayt/BrowserGPT
- https://github.com/TaxyAI/browser-extension
- https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use
- https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern
- https://github.com/m1guelpf/browser-agent
- https://github.com/richardyc/Chrome-GPT
- https://github.com/handrew/browserpilot