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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

#11
>It doesn't pretend to be invisible: when a site throws an interactive challenge (reCAPTCHA, Turnstile) NeoBrowser detects it and hands control back with a real-session or human path — that honesty is what makes it dependable.

Maybe it's just me, but if you can't be bothered to clean up your vibecoded README, I'm going to assume I'd be better off just vibecoding my own version of this solution.

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

#12
post #5

https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use has been great so far

Any opinion on browser-use vs Vercel's agent browser or Claude's built in chrome driver?

browser-use is a lot more capable and generally more efficient, and a lot easier to embed in other programs than Claude's driver. I haven't used Vercel's agent browser enough to speak to it.

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

#15

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

That's supported as a first-class mode: NEOBROWSER_ATTACH_PORT=9222 attaches to your running Chrome and never patches or kills it. The cookie-import path exists for when you'd rather not keep a debug port open.

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

#16
post #7

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. :-)

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

#17
post #9

Doesn't Claude already do this?

Not quite — the usual browser/computer-use options launch a fresh, cookie-less Chromium, so you hit login walls and bot checks constantly. NeoBrowser drives the real Chrome binary with your actual logged-in profile. That's the part that changes the failure mode.

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

#19

>It doesn't pretend to be invisible: when a site throws an interactive challenge (reCAPTCHA, Turnstile) NeoBrowser detects it and hands control back with a real-session or human path — that honesty is what makes it dependable. Maybe it's just me, but if you can't be bothered to clean up your vibecoded README, I'm going to assume I'd be better off just vibecoding my own version of this solution.

Fair challenge. The README's claims are the verifiable kind, though: CI installs real Chrome and runs the stealth checks on every push, the bot.sannysoft run is one cargo test away, and the benchmark vs Playwright MCP is in bench/ with the full methodology. If you find a claim that doesn't hold, open an issue — I'd rather fix it than defend it.

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

#20

>It doesn't pretend to be invisible: when a site throws an interactive challenge (reCAPTCHA, Turnstile) NeoBrowser detects it and hands control back with a real-session or human path — that honesty is what makes it dependable. Maybe it's just me, but if you can't be bothered to clean up your vibecoded README, I'm going to assume I'd be better off just vibecoding my own version of this solution.

Fair challenge. The README's claims are the verifiable kind, though: CI installs real Chrome and runs the stealth checks on every push, the bot.sannysoft run is one cargo test away, and the benchmark vs Playwright MCP is in bench/ with the full methodology. If you find a claim that doesn't hold, open an issue — I'd rather fix it than defend it.

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