Extension seems broken again

[kohowski]

ok this worked just a couple versions before. before the switch to ephemeral sessions was done.

now.. running playwright-cli 0.1.0 (latest in npm), have an extension installed in a custom profile

playwright-cli --profile=C:\Users\me\Downloads\q --extension open

the extension page does pop up, so the --profile=C:\Users\me\Downloads\q argument works, but that page is actually asking about token authorization, and it will NOT list any open pages to connect to

separately, I discovered having a ./playwright-cli,json file no longer works (I used to specify the profile there), like this:

{
"browser": {
"userDataDir": "C:\Users\me\Downloads\q"
}
}

so now need to use --profile= only.

playwright-cli --version
0.1.0
node --version
v24.13.0

[yury-s]

the extension page does pop up, so the --profile=C:\Users\me\Downloads\q argument works, but that page is actually asking about token authorization, and it will NOT list any open pages to connect to

Yeah, it allows to only connect to the new tab from cli. We can change that to show the tab selector when no url was passed to open.

separately, I discovered having a ./playwright-cli,json file no longer works (I used to specify the profile there), like this:

The default location of the config has changed, it is now .playwright/cli.config.json. The help reflects that and the LLM should be able to figure it out:

You can always explicitly set the path via the command line flag. Sorry for the inconvenience, this stuff is still in flux.

[kohowski]

@yury-s I somehow am very used to that behavior! Would greatly appreciate if it was possible to select an open tab, just like it's been with the MCP version. That's the whole point of the extension if you ask me. If I use this playwright connector (either version, cli or MCP) with the extension, I intend to interrogate an already open page (in an existing browser instance, sure thing), I would not use "navigate" or "open", and would ask AI not to either.

And I gather with cli I want to issue "open" first, right? With MCP any command would do, as in, "the next one I had in mind", so I could ask for a snapshot off the bat. And it would land me on a tab selection page.

[kohowski]

@yury-s thanks! love it!