Browser Automation: chrome not found

[liquefy]

i do not have chrome installed but have ungoogled chromium. is there a way to use that instead of regular chrome? I have CHROME_EXECUTABLE pointing to the ungoogled chromium binary, as that is used by android studio for the same purpose.
In Agent Window the browser works btw (not sure if this is the same feature).

Version: 1.8.0-pre.9.patch.0 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e582228a41e5f85f78cc5b2113a61be3bfe017b0
Date: 2025-09-29T08:13:29.996Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

[condor (Condor (Tee))]

This may be eventually the same feature, at the moment not configurable. We use @browser now in Beta.

[deanrie]

Hey, you need to install Google Chrome anyway because Cursor works in tandem with it.

[liquefy]

i know vscode is based on chromium.

i do not, and never had, google chrome installed. i only have ungoogled chromium.
as visible in the screenshot, cursor says browser not found in settings, but browser automation works just fine.
also if you use playwright under the hood, they support custom chrome path (e.g. ungoogled chromium) like so: --executable-path=C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Chromium\\Application\\chrome.exe

[liquefy]

after patch10 nightly 1.8.0 a browser button was added to chat:

when i click it i get this error:

but when i open context @ button, and click browser from there, it is added just fine, without an error:

and as shown in my previous message, it works just fine without ever installing google chrome.

i really think custom chrome path should be properly supported, because clearly there are two different chrome verifications… ideally via standard CHROME_EXECUTABLE environment variable, which points to chrome.exe path

[liquefy]

@condor @deanrie any chance we could support non-ggogle chromium? playwright does without any problems, read above please

[liquefy]

patch 11, specifying custom path on windows 10 does not work, it still says chrome not found even after refresh, i have tried over dozen options, tried both / \ \\, tried with chrome.exe and without too, never worked.

[fusiondev]

Ah, completely de-googled everything, so this is a bit of a fail. However, we will be able to use Brave Browser, which is based on Chromium.

[Edwin_Tan]

I tried this too. Nothing seems to work.

[lamjed001 (Lamjed)]

Hello,
just move your ungoogled chromium files to %localappdata%\Chromium\Application

I tested it with Cursor v2.0.43

[lamjed001 (Lamjed)]

@Edwin_Tan try this method : Browser Automation: chrome not found - #10 by lamjed001

[Serp]

And what do you do when you have real Chrome installed and that thing still says not installed?

[lamjed001 (Lamjed)]

@Serp make sure that your chrome is in one of these paths:
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome Beta\Application\chrome.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome Dev\Application\chrome.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe
%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
%localappdata%\Google\Chrome Beta\Application\chrome.exe
%localappdata%\Google\Chrome Dev\Application\chrome.exe
%localappdata%\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe

[Serp]

Interesting idea, but no, I’m not going to check. I have installed official Google Chrome using official installer without changing settings. If Cursor is not able to detect that, then I can live without the Browser feature.

[Edwin_Tan]

No, it doesn’t work. Chrome default installed into “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe”; i can’t change the installed folder.

[Edwin_Tan]

I try to reinstall chrome but the default folder is “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” and I can’t seems to change it.