Comment by hombre_fatal
1 day ago
I had an issue with playwright MCP where only one Claude Code instance could be using it at a time, so I switched to Claude's built-in /chrome MCP.
In practice, I also find it more useful that the Chrome MCP uses my current profile since I might want Claude to look at some page I'm already logged in to.
I'm not very sophisticated here though. I mainly use use browser MCP to get around the fact that 30% of servers block agent traffic like Apple's documentation.
Would love if there is a way to parallelize playwright mcp using multiple agents and such, but it seems it's a fundamental limitation of that MCP that only on instance/tab can be controlled.
Chrome MCP is much slower and by default pretty much unusable because Claude seems to prefer to read state from screenshots. Also, no Firefox/Safari support means no cross-browser testing.
There appears to be https://github.com/sumyapp/playwright-parallel-mcp which may be worth trying.
I was using the built-in chrome skill but it was too unreliable for me. So I switched to playwright cli and I can also have it use firefox to get help debugging browser-specific issues.