# Browser Automation Off still shows pages in Glass Browser Tab via open\_resource

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/browser-automation-off-still-shows-pages-in-glass-browser-tab-via-open-resource/166854>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** mcp, browser\
**Created:** [July 28, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/browser-automation-off-still-shows-pages-in-glass-browser-tab-via-open-resource/166854 "2026-07-28T11:20:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsolly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/jsolly/32/33752_2.png) [@jsolly](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jsolly)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/browser-automation-off-still-shows-pages-in-glass-browser-tab-via-open-resource/166854/5 "2026-07-28T11:26:28Z")

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## Follow-up: sanitized logs + session IDs

Data sharing is **on**. Logs below are for the same investigation window as this report (Browser Automation Off still leaves Glass Browser Tab pages via `cursor-app-control` `open_resource`).

### Relevant IDs for this bug

- Glass/browser viewId observed: `stable-browser-session/b23abea01bc4771017b008369920af3f` (Home workspace id embedded)
- `open_resource` is **not** agent CDP control — tabs still appear in Browser Tab UI when Automation is Off
- Browser Automation output logs from wb58/wb59/wb64 attached

### Session / identity (data sharing on)

- **machineId:** `45f9fb3f-e7a9-4793-a235-3a7bb93e4e3f`
- **Cursor:** 3.13.21 (`55434bd8062ece6fee083b82beed2aee42d253f0`) Darwin arm64
- **Log session folder:** `~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/logs/20260727T152911/`
- **Home/empty-window workspaceId:** `b23abea01bc4771017b008369920af3f`
- **Project workspaceId (writers):** `c63b395f862a583cf684909c2973e535`
- **empty-window composerId:** `d174e224-0460-47e0-9ea0-763af6aa41df`
- **jsolly-website composerId:** `5acf3d63-e855-475f-80d3-765ec4494774`
- **Sample requestIds (wb62 / this chat):** `ea519e6d-beca-48ec-a1cc-0f2014441f94`, `39c62806-5a07-4e7b-a817-a2f6b664a5c8`
- **Sample requestIds (wb58 / empty-window):** `01ecc7d9-bae9-4492-839d-1da5719701eb`, `5f3e45fc-f834-4f42-8e83-2e74cb80e63f`, `a85646b1-270f-459a-9cda-acc3b8fa91e0`

### Attachments (sanitized)

[00-SESSION-IDS.txt](https://forum.cursor.com/uploads/short-url/nle3VAszGvhrUJShzPemM2ZvByq.txt)  
[03-wb58-Browser-Automation.log](https://forum.cursor.com/uploads/short-url/sJIQtHsxRxnP6iRGqRH22RZNLhe.log)  
[03-wb59-Browser-Automation.log](https://forum.cursor.com/uploads/short-url/f6txoNQcyZC0frcaD3VxhlaxlXW.log)  
[03-wb64-Browser-Automation.log](https://forum.cursor.com/uploads/short-url/9WQTaRWScIoZMSAAlYocSkbd0p8.log)  
[01-empty-window-wb58-McpFileSystemWriter-b23abe.log](https://forum.cursor.com/uploads/short-url/xbNqMp2zc1ETGCAIxlClv7Dp8bx.log)  
[cursor-browser-bugs-logs-sanitized.zip](https://forum.cursor.com/uploads/short-url/vpUM7jqnPgEZh2Ax7MNOjlWcyXV.zip)

Siblings: [166850](https://forum.cursor.com/t/166850) (catalog vs runtime), [166855](https://forum.cursor.com/t/166855) (system Brave fallback), [166856](https://forum.cursor.com/t/166856) (cross-workspace tabs).

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