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fix(web): desktop opens remote environments' browser tabs locally - #17316
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Moving a legacy tab with no snapshot.profileId opens it under the configured default profile instead of DEFAULT_BROWSER_PROFILE_ID, changing its cookies and login state. This spread omits profileId, so openPreviewSession selects the current default; pass activeProfileId explicitly to preserve the tab's existing profile.
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In file @apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx around line 448:
Moving a legacy tab with no `snapshot.profileId` opens it under the configured default profile instead of `DEFAULT_BROWSER_PROFILE_ID`, changing its cookies and login state. This spread omits `profileId`, so `openPreviewSession` selects the current default; pass `activeProfileId` explicitly to preserve the tab's existing profile.
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🟡 Medium preview/PreviewView.tsx:462
If opening the replacement succeeds but closePreviewSession fails, this handler still leaves the user on the replacement tab without reporting the failure, so both tabs remain running and the move appears complete. Check the close result and surface its failure.
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In file @apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx around line 462:
If opening the replacement succeeds but `closePreviewSession` fails, this handler still leaves the user on the replacement tab without reporting the failure, so both tabs remain running and the move appears complete. Check the close result and surface its failure.
ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes the default runtime for remote browser tabs on desktop and adds a workflow that replaces and closes live browser sessions, making it more than a narrowly isolated fix. Unresolved findings also flag possible profile/login-state changes for legacy tabs and duplicate live tabs when cleanup fails. Not approved because:
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughPreview runtime selection now accounts for server-browser support and the primary environment. PreviewView can offer an action to open a replacement session in an alternate runtime, then close the existing session after success. ChangesPreview Runtime Switching
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PreviewView
participant openPreviewSession
participant BrowserPanel
participant PreviewState
PreviewView->>openPreviewSession: Open replacement with target runtime and current viewport
openPreviewSession-->>PreviewView: Return replacement session
PreviewView->>BrowserPanel: Open replacement tab
PreviewView->>PreviewState: Close previous session
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Moving a tab may open it under a different browser profile or leave both tabs open without an explanation. Resolve these behaviors before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx:
- Line 462: Check the result of closePreviewSession in the replacement-open
handler and report when closing the old tab fails, while preserving the existing
session-restoration behavior.
- Line 448: Update the profile handling in the PreviewView snapshot replacement
flow to use DEFAULT_BROWSER_PROFILE_ID when snapshot.profileId is absent, while
preserving an explicitly provided profileId. Ensure openPreviewSession receives
the replacement profile so legacy tabs remain associated with the built-in
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve the built-in profile for legacy tabs.
When snapshot.profileId is absent, the existing tab uses DEFAULT_BROWSER_PROFILE_ID. This spread omits the profile instead. openPreviewSession then uses the current configured default, which can open the moved page under a different account. Pass snapshot.profileId ?? DEFAULT_BROWSER_PROFILE_ID as the replacement profile.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx at line 448:
Update the profile handling in the PreviewView snapshot replacement flow to use
DEFAULT_BROWSER_PROFILE_ID when snapshot.profileId is absent, while preserving
an explicitly provided profileId. Ensure openPreviewSession receives the
replacement profile so legacy tabs remain associated with the built-in profile.
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Handle failure when closing the old tab.
If the close command fails after the replacement opens, closePreviewSession restores the old session. The handler ignores that result, so both tabs remain open without an explanation. Check the close result and report that the old tab could not be closed.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx at line 462:
Check the result of closePreviewSession in the replacement-open handler and
report when closing the old tab fails, while preserving the existing
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Since #15328, every tab the desktop app opened for a remote environment ran in that environment's browser and streamed back. Browsing the public internet, or a dev server shared over Tailscale, paid the stream's latency and blur for nothing.
Tabs the user opens now run on this computer, except for the desktop's own server, whose tabs already render natively. When a page can't be reached from here, the "This site can't be reached" page offers Open in 's browser, which reopens the tab there with the same URL, size, and profile. The tab's More menu has the same action, and moves a tab back with Open on this computer; on the way back a loopback URL is rewritten to the environment's address.
Unchanged: agent-opened tabs still run in the environment's browser, and web/mobile clients, which have no local browser, still stream.
Trade-off: an agent can't read a tab that runs on this computer for a remote environment. Moving the tab to the environment makes it visible to agents.
Tests:
previewRuntime.test.ts(new),PreviewView.test.tsx,openPreviewSession.test.ts,openTerminalLinkInPreview.test.ts.🤖 Generated with Claude Code (Opus 5.5)