Speaking of AI-powered browser capabilities on the Mac, Anthropic is highlighting Claude Code’s in-app browser on the desktop today.
“Claude Code on desktop now has an in-app browser,” per the ClaudeDevs account on X.
“Claude can pull up docs, designs, or any other site. It can read, click through, and interact the same way it does with your local dev servers. It’s sandboxed and configurable: you choose whether sessions persist.”
Agentic web browsing has been in the news this week as OpenAI announced plans to sunset its ChatGPT Atlas browser in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app’s in-app browser.
Anthropic and OpenAI both have Chrome extensions for integrating their AI tools with Google’s browser as well.
Anthropic’s documentation explains the difference between Claude Code’s in-app browser and using the Claude extension in Chrome:
The Browser pane uses a clean browser profile, separate from your personal browser, with none of your saved logins or history. Use it for building and testing your app and for sites that don’t need your identity. When you want Claude to act as you in your logged-in sessions, use the Claude in Chrome extension instead, which shares your browser’s login state.
Plus, new AI-focused browsers have launched on the Mac recently.
Claude Code on desktop now has an in-app browser.Claude can pull up docs, designs, or any other site. It can read, click through, and interact the same way it does with your local dev servers.It's sandboxed and configurable: you choose whether sessions persist. pic.twitter.com/Jbc21OP0vJ
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