Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.
It is a bit of a nothingburger, but it’s important to note that Electron apps normally bundle their own chromium instance within itself and don’t use other browsers. I suspect this is done to potentially support working directly with browsers you have installed.
to lazy to read but sounds like its related to its front end testing mcp which you would expect to have access to browser configs when needed especially for playwright
So you are bitching a chrome browser reconfiged your other chrome browser…
It is a bit of a nothingburger, but it’s important to note that Electron apps normally bundle their own chromium instance within itself and don’t use other browsers. I suspect this is done to potentially support working directly with browsers you have installed.
It’s going to take creds out of your browser, spawn a new one not in the browser sandbox and act as the user to complete tasks. What tasks? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
to lazy to read but sounds like its related to its front end testing mcp which you would expect to have access to browser configs when needed especially for playwright