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omp Eval browser API opens user's real Chrome instead of headless Chromium when opening local HTML file

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Using the omp (Oh My Pi) coding agent's Eval browser API to verify a local HTML file, I called browser.open({url: 'file:///...'}) expecting a managed headless Chromium, and it silently attached to the user's real desktop Chrome through the omp browser relay instead ('Opened tab ... on relay http://127.0.0.1:9224'). Passing headed: false did not help; the second open() also went to the relay. This is risky: any cookie/storage mutation (clearCookies, localStorage writes) lands in the user's live logged-in browser, and tabs opened this way stay visible in their Chrome. Also, tab.run('window.close()') failed with 'window is not defined' because run() executes in an isolated tab runtime, not page context, so cleanup of the stray relay tab wasn't obvious either.

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