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add --profile-directory=Default to Chrome restart commands

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Prevents Chrome from hanging on the profile picker when agents restart it
programmatically. Applied to:

- getChromeRestartCommand() in screen-recording.ts (used for recording setup)
- All Chrome startup examples in skill.md (basic + recording flags)
- Both macOS, Linux, and Windows variants
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Tommy D. Rossi
2026-02-25 17:26:21 +01:00
parent eb420dabff
commit 1e9fecaf60
2 changed files with 10 additions and 9 deletions
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playwriter/src/screen-recording.ts
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@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ import { EXTENSION_IDS } from './utils.js'
*/ */
export function getChromeRestartCommand(): string { export function getChromeRestartCommand(): string {
const platform = os.platform() const platform = os.platform()
const flags = const extensionFlags = EXTENSION_IDS.map((id) => `--allowlisted-extension-id=${id}`).join(' ')
EXTENSION_IDS.map((id) => `--allowlisted-extension-id=${id}`).join(' ') + ' --auto-accept-this-tab-capture' // --profile-directory=Default skips the profile picker on startup, preventing Chrome from hanging
const flags = `${extensionFlags} --auto-accept-this-tab-capture --profile-directory=Default`
if (platform === 'darwin') { if (platform === 'darwin') {
return `osascript -e 'quit app "Google Chrome"' && sleep 1 && open -a "Google Chrome" --args ${flags}` return `osascript -e 'quit app "Google Chrome"' && sleep 1 && open -a "Google Chrome" --args ${flags}`
playwriter/src/skill.md
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@@ -126,29 +126,29 @@ Control user's Chrome browser via playwright code snippets. Prefer single-line c
```bash ```bash
# macOS # macOS
open -a "Google Chrome" open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory=Default
# Linux # Linux
google-chrome & google-chrome --profile-directory=Default &
# Windows (cmd) # Windows (cmd)
start chrome.exe start chrome.exe --profile-directory=Default
# Windows (PowerShell) # Windows (PowerShell)
Start-Process chrome.exe Start-Process chrome.exe -ArgumentList '--profile-directory=Default'
``` ```
To also enable automatic tab capture for screen recording (no manual extension click needed), add the `--allowlisted-extension-id` and `--auto-accept-this-tab-capture` flags: To also enable automatic tab capture for screen recording (no manual extension click needed), add the `--allowlisted-extension-id` and `--auto-accept-this-tab-capture` flags:
```bash ```bash
# macOS # macOS
open -a "Google Chrome" --args --allowlisted-extension-id=jfeammnjpkecdekppnclgkkffahnhfhe --auto-accept-this-tab-capture open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory=Default --allowlisted-extension-id=jfeammnjpkecdekppnclgkkffahnhfhe --auto-accept-this-tab-capture
# Linux # Linux
google-chrome --allowlisted-extension-id=jfeammnjpkecdekppnclgkkffahnhfhe --auto-accept-this-tab-capture & google-chrome --profile-directory=Default --allowlisted-extension-id=jfeammnjpkecdekppnclgkkffahnhfhe --auto-accept-this-tab-capture &
# Windows # Windows
start chrome.exe --allowlisted-extension-id=jfeammnjpkecdekppnclgkkffahnhfhe --auto-accept-this-tab-capture start chrome.exe --profile-directory=Default --allowlisted-extension-id=jfeammnjpkecdekppnclgkkffahnhfhe --auto-accept-this-tab-capture
``` ```
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