chrome-use/.changeset/release-mmhyg8ko.md

agent-browser

agent-browser
minor

New Features

• Lightpanda browser engine support - Added --engine <name> flag to select the browser engine (chrome by default, or lightpanda), implying --native mode. Configurable via AGENT_BROWSER_ENGINE environment variable (#646)
• Dialog dismiss command - Added support for dismiss subcommand in dialog command parsing (#605)

Improvements

• Daemon startup error reporting - Daemon startup errors are now surfaced directly instead of showing an opaque timeout message (#614)
• CDP port discovery - Replaced broken hand-rolled HTTP client with reqwest for more reliable CDP port discovery (#619)
• Chrome extensions - Extensions now load correctly by forcing headed mode when extensions are present (#652)
• Google Translate bar suppression - Suppressed the Google Translate bar in native headless mode to avoid interference (#649)
• Auth cookie persistence - Auth cookies are now persisted on browser close in native mode (#650)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed native auth login failing due to incompatible encryption format (#648)

Documentation

• Improved snapshot usage guidance and added reproducibility check (#630)
• Added --engine flag to the README options table

Performance

• Added benchmarks to the CLI codebase (#637)