OpenClaw Browser Tool Configuration Failure. The OpenClaw browser tool is currently non-functional
cannot be started or reconfigured by the agent. Attempts to change its profile consistently fail with an "invalid config" error.
Details:
•Current Browser Status: • browser(action="status") output:
JSON
{
"enabled": true,
"profile": "chrome",
"running": false,
"cdpReady": false,
"cdpHttp": true,
"pid": null,
"cdpPort": 18792,
"cdpUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:18792",
"chosenBrowser": null,
"detectedBrowser": "brave",
"detectedExecutablePath": "/usr/bin/brave-browser",
"detectError": null,
"userDataDir": null,
"color": "#00AA00",
"headless": false,
"noSandbox": false,
"executablePath": null,
"attachOnly": false
}
•Interpretation: The browser control service is not running. It's configured to use profile: "chrome", which requires the "OpenClaw Browser Relay" Chrome extension. The user reports they cannot find this extension in Chrome or the Web Store.
•Attempt to Start: browser(action="start") fails with Error: Chrome extension relay is running, but no tab is connected.... This creates a deadlock.
•Attempts to Change Profile (consistently failed): • The goal was to change the profile from "chrome" to "openclaw" (to use an isolated browser instance, bypassing the extension dependency).
•The agent attempted to use default_api.gateway(action="config.patch") multiple times, targeting the agents.defaults.tools.browser.profile path based on the openclaw.json structure.
•Failing config.patch Command Example:
Python
print(default_api.gateway(action = "config.patch", raw = '''
{
"agents": {
"defaults": {
"tools": {
"browser": {
"profile": "openclaw"
}
}
}
}
}
''', reason = "Setting default browser profile to 'openclaw' for all agents"))
• Consistent Error: All config.patch attempts for this setting resulted in gateway_response: {"status": "error", "tool": "gateway", "error": "invalid config"}.
• Conclusion: There appears to be an undocumented constraint or a bug in how config.patch handles updates to the agents.defaults.tools.browser.profile setting within the openclaw.json schema
Details:
•Current Browser Status: • browser(action="status") output:
JSON
{
"enabled": true,
"profile": "chrome",
"running": false,
"cdpReady": false,
"cdpHttp": true,
"pid": null,
"cdpPort": 18792,
"cdpUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:18792",
"chosenBrowser": null,
"detectedBrowser": "brave",
"detectedExecutablePath": "/usr/bin/brave-browser",
"detectError": null,
"userDataDir": null,
"color": "#00AA00",
"headless": false,
"noSandbox": false,
"executablePath": null,
"attachOnly": false
}
•Interpretation: The browser control service is not running. It's configured to use profile: "chrome", which requires the "OpenClaw Browser Relay" Chrome extension. The user reports they cannot find this extension in Chrome or the Web Store.
•Attempt to Start: browser(action="start") fails with Error: Chrome extension relay is running, but no tab is connected.... This creates a deadlock.
•Attempts to Change Profile (consistently failed): • The goal was to change the profile from "chrome" to "openclaw" (to use an isolated browser instance, bypassing the extension dependency).
•The agent attempted to use default_api.gateway(action="config.patch") multiple times, targeting the agents.defaults.tools.browser.profile path based on the openclaw.json structure.
•Failing config.patch Command Example:
Python
print(default_api.gateway(action = "config.patch", raw = '''
{
"agents": {
"defaults": {
"tools": {
"browser": {
"profile": "openclaw"
}
}
}
}
}
''', reason = "Setting default browser profile to 'openclaw' for all agents"))
• Consistent Error: All config.patch attempts for this setting resulted in gateway_response: {"status": "error", "tool": "gateway", "error": "invalid config"}.
• Conclusion: There appears to be an undocumented constraint or a bug in how config.patch handles updates to the agents.defaults.tools.browser.profile setting within the openclaw.json schema
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