# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Browser real-profile launch hang and backup fallback handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members center on the browser.use_real_profile setting on macOS while Chrome is running, where one issue reports a launch hang tied to a sqlite backup of Login Data / Web Data. The other two items appear to propose related changes, such as bounding the auth backup with a raw-copy fallback and a cookies-only copy or fresh-browser fallback.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #139245. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #139245 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-139245`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: 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

- #96661: browser.use_real_profile launch hangs indefinitely on macOS while Chrome is running (sqlite backup livelock on Login Data / Web Data)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#139245: Browser keeps working with the real-profile setting on: cookies-only copy, fresh-browser fallback (salvage #110613)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/cmaldonado80@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/browser_connect.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_browser_connect_real_profile_snapshot_errors.py`, `tests/tools/test_browser_real_profile.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`, `tools/browser_tool_real_profile.py`, `tools/browser_tool_session.py`, `tools/browser_use_cli.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/browser.md`
- **#96659: fix(browser): bound the real-profile auth backup so a locked source falls through to raw copy**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `046094df28b`, `#139245`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #139245 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-15`.
- Subsystem: `agent`