Chrome DevTools Protocol Setup Report

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🦞 Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) Setup Report

Date: 2026-03-22 03:36–03:42 GMT+8 Host: to — Linux 6.8.0-106-generic (x64) OpenClaw: 2026.3.13 (61d171a)

Status: ✅ Operational

Component	State
Browser Profile	`openclaw` (default)
Running	true
Transport	CDP
Port	18800
URL	`http://127.0.0.1:18800`
Active Tabs	1
Snapshot Verified	✅ (example.com)

What Was Done

Step 1 — Attempted snap Chromium (failed)

sudo apt-get install chromium installed chromium-browser 146.0.7680.80 — but on Ubuntu this is a snap wrapper, not a real binary. OpenClaw tried to launch it and hit:

Failed to create SingletonLock: Permission denied (13)
Failed to create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory. Aborting now to avoid profile corruption.

Root cause: Snap’s AppArmor confinement prevents the Chromium process from writing to ~/.openclaw/browser/openclaw/user-data/. Adding noSandbox: true did not help because the issue is at the snap/system level, not Chrome’s renderer sandbox.

Step 2 — Used Playwright’s bundled Chromium (success)

Playwright 1.58.2 was already installed globally, and it had downloaded Chromium to ~/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1208/. This binary is not snap-sandboxed and works fine with CDP.

Step 3 — Configured OpenClaw

Set executablePath to the Playwright Chromium and started the browser.

Configuration Added

File: ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

"browser": {
  "enabled": true,
  "noSandbox": true,
  "headless": true,
  "executablePath": "/home/lzw/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1208/chrome-linux64/chrome"
}

Browser Inventory

Binary	Version	Source	CDP Compatible
`/usr/bin/chromium-browser`	146.0.7680.80	snap	❌ (AppArmor blocks it)
`~/.cache/ms-playwright/.../chrome`	145.0.7632.6	Playwright 1.58.2	✅ (active)

Active Browser Profiles

Profile	Status	Notes
`openclaw`	✅ running (1 tab)	Managed headless, CDP on :18800
`user`	⬜ stopped	Existing-session mode (requires `--browser-profile user`)
`chrome-relay`	✅ running (0 tabs)	Extension relay on :18792

Available Capabilities

All verified and working:

openclaw browser navigate <url> — page navigation
openclaw browser snapshot --compact — DOM tree snapshot with element refs
openclaw browser screenshot — full-page or element screenshots
openclaw browser click <ref> — click elements by ref
openclaw browser type <ref> <text> — fill form fields
openclaw browser evaluate <fn> — run JS in page context
openclaw browser console — read console logs
openclaw browser requests — monitor network traffic
openclaw browser pdf — save pages as PDF
openclaw browser cookies — read/write cookies

⚠️ Notes

Playwright Chromium version lags behind snap (145 vs 146) — minor, doesn’t affect CDP functionality
Playwright updates may change the binary path (e.g., chromium-1208 → chromium-1300). If the browser breaks after a npx playwright install upgrade, update executablePath in config
headless: true means no visible browser window — all interaction is via CLI/agent commands. Set false if you want to see it (requires display)
The Telegram group policy warning in doctor output is unrelated — that’s about Telegram channel config, not browser

Alternative: Install Google Chrome Stable

If you want a more permanent solution that survives Playwright upgrades:

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt --fix-broken install -y

Then set executablePath to /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable. That’s the officially recommended path per OpenClaw docs.

Anything else you want me to test or configure?

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