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Chromium Bridge vs Manzanas

In-depth architectural comparison of the Chromium Bridge and Manzanas MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

At a Glance & Executive Verdict

Chromium Bridge
Browser Automation · Local stdio
Quality: 63/100 (Good) | Auth: No auth required
Manzanas
Browser Automation · Local stdio
Quality: 79/100 (Great) | Auth: No auth required
Verdict Summary: Choose Chromium Bridge if you need specialized Browser Automation tools running via a local process. Choose Manzanas if your workspace requires Browser Automation integration with local subprocess execution. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Chromium Bridge logo

Choose Chromium Bridge when:

  • You need dedicated capabilities in the Browser Automation domain.
  • You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
  • Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
  • Primary tools included: browser_status, browser_tabs_list, browser_tab_create.
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Manzanas logo

Choose Manzanas when:

  • You need dedicated capabilities in the Browser Automation domain.
  • You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
  • Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
  • Primary tools included: Accessibility-based UI inspection and interaction, TTL leases with FIFO queuing, Warm simulator park and thaw.
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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification
Chromium Bridge logo
Chromium Bridge
dashi96
Browser Automation
Manzanas logo
Manzanas
VerifiedBrowser Automation
SummaryMCP server + Chrome extension that connects Claude Code to Chromium-based browsers (Arc, Vivaldi, Brave) where the official Claude in Chrome extension doesn't work — navigate, click, read pages, run JS, and record GIFs in the user's real browser.Drive iOS simulators from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex by accessibility label instead of screenshot-and-tap-coordinates. Exposes ui_tree, tap_element, type_into_element, wait_for_element and scroll_to_element, and every action reports whether the UI actually changed. A Mac daemon underneath hands out simulators as TTL leases with a queue and keeps a SIGSTOP warm pool, so a lease gets a live simulator in about 0.28s instead of a 7s cold boot, and multiple agents can share one Mac without colliding. Open source, MIT.

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Chromium Bridge Tools (18)

browser_status
Check whether the browser extension is connected to the bridge. Returns {connected: boolean}. Read-only, no side effects. Call it first in a session, or when other browser_* tools fail, to distinguish "extension not connected" from page-level errors.
browser_tabs_list
List all open browser tabs with their id, title, and URL. Read-only. Use it to pick a tabId for the other browser_* tools; prefer reusing an existing tab over creating a new one when the target page is already open.
browser_tab_create
Open a new browser tab and return its id and windowId. Mutating: adds a tab to the user's real browser and focuses it. Use when a fresh page is needed; to work with a page that is already open, find its id via browser_tabs_list instead.
browser_tab_close
Close a browser tab by id. Destructive: the tab and its unsaved page state are gone, with no undo. Close only tabs this session created, unless the user explicitly asked to close theirs.

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

Chromium Bridge Configuration
mcpServers (Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dashi96-chromium-bridge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "chromium-bridge"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Manzanas Configuration
mcpServers (Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "manzanas": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "manzanasd-client@latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Frequently Asked Questions

Chromium Bridge is categorized under Browser Automation and uses a local stdio subprocess. In contrast, Manzanas belongs to Browser Automation using local stdio subprocess. Select Chromium Bridge when you need capabilities focused on browser automation and Manzanas when you require tools for browser automation.

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Popular comparisons with Manzanas

Category & ScopeBrowser AutomationBrowser Automation
Quality signal63/100 (Good)79/100 (Great)
Transport ProtocolLocal Subprocess (stdio)Local Subprocess (stdio)
Auth RequirementNo auth requiredNo auth required
Pricing ModelFree / Open SourceFree / Open Source
Required Env VarsNone requiredNone required
Compatible Clients
Claude DesktopCursorWindsurfClineVS Code
Claude DesktopCursorWindsurfClineVS Code
Install path signalnpx · highnpx · high
Engagement & Health 3 views 0 copies 0 upvotes 5 stars 5 views 0 copies 2 upvotes 18 stars
Verified / OfficialCommunity Listing Yes (Verified)
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browser_navigate
Navigate an existing tab to a URL, or move through its history with url="back" / url="forward". Mutating: replaces the page currently shown in that tab. Returns when navigation is committed; dynamic pages may still be rendering — verify with browser_page_text or a screenshot before interacting.
browser_page_text
Get a tab's title, URL, and visible text (up to 80 kB) from the live DOM. Read-only and cheap — prefer it over a screenshot whenever layout does not matter. Content rendered to canvas or images is invisible to it; use a browser_computer screenshot for those.
browser_computer
Mouse, keyboard, and screenshots in a browser tab via the DevTools protocol; the tab does not need to be active (first use shows Chrome's "started debugging" info bar — that is expected). Actions: screenshot (viewport image in CSS pixels — its coordinates map 1:1 to click coordinates), zoom (magnified region [x0,y0,x1,y1]), left_click, right_click, double_click, triple_click, hover, left_click_drag (start_coordinate→coordinate), type (insert text at the current focus), key (space-separated combos, e.g. "cmd+a Backspace"), scroll (scroll_direction+scroll_amount), scroll_to (ref), wait (duration, max 10 s). Clicks, typing, and key presses are real input events and mutate page state; screenshot/zoom/hover/wait are read-only. Positions come from coordinate:[x,y] or from a ref returned by browser_read_page/browser_find — refs are more reliable than eyeballed coordinates.
browser_read_page
Accessibility tree of the page with a ref id per element; use refs with browser_computer (clicks, scroll_to) and browser_form_input. filter=interactive returns only clickable/editable elements — a compact map of the page. Read-only. Refs go stale after navigation or heavy DOM changes; call again to refresh.
browser_find
Find elements by visible text, accessible name, or role, and return their refs for use with browser_computer and browser_form_input. Read-only. Cheaper than reading the whole accessibility tree when you know what you are looking for. An empty result means nothing matched — not an error.
browser_form_input
Set a form control's value directly in the DOM: input/textarea/contenteditable (text), select (option value or label), checkbox/radio ("true"/"false"). Fires input/change events so frameworks pick the value up. Mutating. Target by CSS selector or ref. Reliable for plain form fields; rich editors (CodeMirror and the like) and custom comboboxes often ignore it — for those, click the field with browser_computer and type.
browser_click
Click an element via DOM .click() by CSS selector. Mutating. Works without the debugger — including on pages where CDP attach fails — but only fires the click handler, with no hover/focus/mousedown chain. If the page ignores it (custom dropdowns, canvas UI), use browser_computer left_click for a real mouse event.
browser_upload_file
Put local files into an <input type="file"> selected by CSS selector, as if the user picked them in the file dialog (fires change). Mutating. files are absolute paths on the user's machine; the input must already exist in the DOM.
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Manzanas Tools (6)

Accessibility-based UI inspection and interaction
TTL leases with FIFO queuing
Warm simulator park and thaw
Per-action UI-change reporting
Journaled artifacts and Markdown evidence export
stdio MCP interface for agent clients
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