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Using the Browser Page

How to open the live view of your helper's browser and read its status indicators.

On this page

The Browser page lives in the dashboard’s Advanced navigation at /dashboard/browser. It shows a live display of the Chromium browser running in your helper’s workspace.

Opening the page

  1. Make sure your helper is running. The Browser page needs a running helper; while the helper is stopped the page shows DISPLAY OFF.
  2. Select Browser in the dashboard sidebar.
  3. The view connects and fills the page. Use the FULL button in the status bar for fullscreen; press Esc to exit.

The Browser page is OpenClaw-only. With Hermes selected, it explains that Hermes does not ship the sandbox browser.

Reading the status bar

The bar above the view shows a status label:

  • LIVE: connected. You are seeing the helper’s browser in real time.
  • CONNECTING: the dashboard is establishing the connection.
  • STANDBY: the helper is running but the browser sidecar is still starting up or not available. A Retry button lets you check again.
  • OFFLINE: the helper is stopped, so there is no display to show.

What you see, and what you can do

The view is a real remote display, streamed over a VNC connection. You see pages render, forms fill, and navigation happen exactly as the helper drives them.

It is also a real display in the other direction: you can click and type in it. If the helper leaves a page open, you can scroll it or close tabs yourself. Closing every tab is safe; the browser reopens on a blank tab within about a second. For day-to-day use, though, the page is best treated as a window for watching. If you want the helper to do something different on the web, tell it so in chat rather than steering its browser by hand, so the helper knows what changed.

When the view looks blank

A blank or idle page is normal. The helper only uses the browser when a task calls for the web. If the helper is writing, reading your Business Brain, or handling email drafts, the browser has nothing to show.