Inovking the web browser disables video playback on the entire machine

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I asked cursor to bring up a Google browser, type “test” and hit the search button. Worked great. But video playback on Chrome and Edge is now blocked. Hitting the play button does nothing. Disable the GPU in the browser and it works fine. I removed the shader and gpu caches per chatgpt suggestion and rebooted and recovered use of my video playback. Didn’t try it with just a reboot.

Steps to Reproduce

follow instructions above. However, I did this again and no such problem happened so I am mystified. It might have been something else messing up the video playback via GPU assist.

Expected Behavior

it isn’t supposed to stop video playback on all browsers!

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.4.27 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 4f2b772756b8f609e1354b3063de282ccbe7a690
Date: 2026-01-31T21:24:58.143Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report.

I see the issue doesn’t reproduce when you try again. It was most likely a temporary GPU conflict between Cursor’s browser and your system browsers. This can happen if there’s a driver conflict or if multiple processes are using GPU acceleration at the same time.

Cursor’s Browser tool starts an isolated Chrome process, which can theoretically conflict with other browsers if they share GPU shader caches. But this should be very rare.

If it happens again, please try:

  • Reproduce it with clean steps (close all browsers, start Cursor’s Browser tool, test the video)
  • Check Task Manager while it’s happening to see which processes are using the GPU
  • Check Chrome or Edge logs for GPU errors

For now, it looks like a one-off incident. Let me know if you can reproduce it reliably and we’ll dig deeper.

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will do

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