# NousResearch/hermes-agent · macOS Chrome headless CDP disrupts normal browser usage

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues describe how running Chrome in headless CDP mode on macOS interferes with normal visible Chrome window handling and URL opening. The concern centers on LaunchAgent or persistent headless setups using the standard Chrome.app causing conflicts with regular browser use.

## TL;DR

- 2 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix found: no merged or attempted fix PR is on record for this cluster.
- **Recommended:** if this matches your symptom, consider adding to the existing issue(s) below rather than opening a new one.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`LLM_ONLY`): no structural link between members; the grouping rests entirely on an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Read the members yourself before treating them as one problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.36`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #33155: macOS: persistent headless CDP using Google Chrome.app breaks normal Chrome URL handling
- #55760: macOS browser-cdp LaunchAgent uses normal Google Chrome.app in headless mode, breaking visible Chrome windows

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`