Desktop browser control

bb 0.43.3·SDK 0.4.104·pinned e865697 (desktop-v0.43.3)

experimental Plugin backend Show on the zone map

Controls a selected desktop window through bb.sdk.experimental_desktopBrowsers. With this, a plugin can:

Use your automation tool on BB-owned tabs

What it gives you

• Discover instances on an explicit host and create thread-owned tabs with separate automation profiles
• Acquire expiring control; reveal the first tab and new CDP pages only in the already focused thread, without activating the desktop window. Personal tabs require an explicit handoff
• Give a worker on that host a private, scoped CDP WebSocket connection for DevBrowser or agent-browser
• Capture or reveal a tab and release control while preserving the tab and its login
• Observe changed tab and control state with a disposable two-second polling subscription; report disconnect errors
• List browsers installed on the desktop host and copy a profile's signed-in cookies into the personal BB browser or an automation profile

API

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• ExperimentalDesktopBrowsersArea interface
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserScope type
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserLease type
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserCreateInput type
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserAcquireInput type
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserInstanceRequest type
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserImportCookiesInput type
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserImportSources type
• ExperimentalDesktopBrowserImportOutcome type

Used by

DevBrowser

Brief for agent…as a bb mentionAdd to set

The brief is Markdown, written for a coding agent: what the capability is, where it registers, every SDK symbol with a pinned permalink, the rules that bite, and what done means.