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OpenAI Codex arrives in the browser with new Chrome extension

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AI companies have been hell-bent on creating coding agents that use computers like humans: Clicking buttons, scrolling through pages, and moving cursors around desktops. The promise is obvious, but the execution remains clunky. The goal is to enable agents to operate software the same way people do, especially inside web apps and enterprise tools that lack clean APIs or integrations. However, those systems can still feel cumbersome, often monopo…

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OpenAI has decided that your browser is also its own. And it’s not a science fiction metaphor: Codex already has an extension for Chrome and macOS, and it gets into your real session, including cookies, to do its own. So far we’ve seen AI agents working in isolated bubbles. But Codex just broke that crystal. With this extension, the programming wizard can access your active Chrome profile — that one where you have 47 tabs open and you still don’…

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OpenAI expands the role of Codex. With its new Chrome extension, the agent can now use an authenticated web session to work in services such as Gmail, Salesforce, LinkedIn or internal tools. Codex finally accesses apps where the work is going So far, Codex shined mainly in the development: reading code, correcting bugs, [...] The OpenAI article gives Codex a Chrome extension: the IA agent comes out of the code to act on the web has appeared firs…

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OnlineMarketing.de broke the news on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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