Live Browsers
Drive a real desktop browser — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari on macOS and Windows — live in your tab.
Live Browsers
A Live Browser session gives you a real desktop browser streaming into your tab. Pick a browser, an operating system, and a resolution, and you get a genuine browser on real hardware — not a rendering emulation — to navigate, reproduce bugs, and capture evidence.
Supported browsers
| Browser | macOS | Windows |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Yes | Yes |
| Edge | Yes | Yes |
| Firefox | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | — |
Safari runs on macOS only (it's Apple's browser). On macOS you can pick between OS versions; the exact browser versions and resolutions available appear in the picker.
The browser fleet runs on real machines. When you end a session the machine resets and warms up before it's offered again, so a browser/OS option can briefly show as busy right after someone finishes with it.
What you can do
Inside a Live Browser session you can:
Navigate and interact
- Type a URL into the browser's address bar and go.
- Click, scroll, and type anywhere on the page or in the browser chrome (tabs, back / forward, URL bar).
- Open new tabs and move between them.
Capture a bug
- Take an on-demand screenshot of the current page, saved to the session gallery.
- Record the session to an MP4 to show a reproduction.
- Read the browser's logs to see what went wrong.
Files and media
- Upload files through a page's file picker — the native file dialog opens inside the session, defaulting to a Downloads folder so your uploaded files are easy to find.
- Push files into the session with the Files & media tool. See Session Tools.
Audio
- The stream starts muted; unmute to hear the browser's audio — useful for testing video and media playback.
Some capabilities are browser-specific. Chrome and Edge expose the widest set of developer-style controls; Firefox and Safari support the core actions (navigate, click, type, screenshot, record) but a few advanced overrides aren't available on every browser. The picker only offers what the selected browser supports.
macOS vs Windows
| macOS | Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Browsers | Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari | Chrome, Edge, Firefox |
| OS versions | Multiple recent macOS versions | Windows |
| Start time | Warm sessions start in a few seconds | Starts on demand |
Testing Android Chrome
Want to test Chrome on a real Android phone rather than a desktop? That's a mobile session — pick Android from the browser picker and you get Chrome (and other Android browsers) running on a genuine phone. See Mobile Devices.