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NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

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Re: NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

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I built NeoBrowser because every browser MCP I tried had the same failure mode: it launches a fresh, fingerprintable headless browser with no cookies, so the model hits login walls and bot checks constantly.

NeoBrowser drives the real Google Chrome binary over CDP and can reuse your actual logged-in profile, so the model lands already authenticated and looks like a genuine user — because it is one.

What's different:

- Real sessions: optionally decrypts + injects cookies from your real Chrome profile (macOS Keychain / Linux secret-service / Windows DPAPI). Opt-in; session-identity cookies are excluded so your real browser isn't logged out. - Genuine stealth, not spoofing: real UA matching its Client Hints, real GPU WebGL, navigator.webdriver gone. Passes bot.sannysoft live in CI. It doesn't pretend to beat interactive challenges — reCAPTCHA/Turnstile can still wall you — instead it detects the wall and tells the model how to react. - Human-like input: clicks travel along an eased, jittered path; typing can be per-key with realistic timing. - One ~5 MB static Rust binary, 43 tools (multi-tab, forms, upload/download, search, playbooks), zero runtime deps.

I also ran a neutral benchmark against Playwright MCP with a shared task matrix, nothing tuned to make either win. Honest results: Playwright MCP is faster (my headless frame-forcing costs ~2x latency); NeoBrowser passes upload + session persistence tasks Playwright MCP can't, and on adversarial pages both get walled equally. Full methodology in bench/ if you want to poke holes in it — I'd rather be called out than overclaim.

Repo: https://github.com/pitiflautico/neobrowser

Re: NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

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This pattern of using original source code and rewrite to improve them (and get rid of technical debt) is very real. I did one for an old app in Objective C, move it to Flutter and said goodbye to my old //TODOs. And get an Android build as a bonus. :-)

Re: NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

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When I need an coding agent to interact with an existing session I just use /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome-profile-stable and tell it

Much money has been made by wrapping up simple commands
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