Allow disabling browser in agents window

Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

The browser in the agents window just gets in the way. I’m most often running a narrow terminal on the right of the window, and when I click through to e.g. open a new pull request, it opens in the agents window’s browser, which 1) is about 200px wide and 2) has none of my cookies/similar.

Tried to find a setting to turn this off and it’s just frustrating to search for settings. Nothing in the command palette. Maybe I missed it but if so my feedback is the settings organization is not very good/clear.

I already have a browser. I don’t want to use Cursor’s. It would be great if the team could adopt more openness to letting people pick and choose the parts of the product they want to use as a baseline requirement of adding new features.

Hey, thanks for the feature request. It’s a valid request, and you’re not the first user to bring it up. We don’t have a separate toggle to fully disable the integrated browser right now, so I’ve added your case to the other signals on this.

A couple things that can help right now:

  • For localhost links, there’s a setting called Show Localhost Links in Browser autoOpenLocalhostUrls. You can turn it off so they won’t be captured by the integrated browser.
  • For markdown links, try Cmd+click or Ctrl+click. That should open them in your external browser instead of the panel.

For PR and GitHub links, there isn’t a global always open externally option yet, and I can’t share an ETA. Related threads if you want to add a vote or more context: Agent window: Opening GitHub PR links in sidebar should be opt-in and Open links in integrated browser (not only localhost).

Also agree on settings discoverability. I’ll pass that feedback to the team. Let me know if the toggles above help.