{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"chrome-extension-not-connected-message-gets-an-extra-suffix","canonical_anchor":"chrome-extension-not-connected-message-gets-an-extra-suffix","heading":"Browser extension \"not connected\" errors can carry extra text","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/chrome-extension-not-connected-message-gets-an-extra-suffix","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Browser extension \"not connected\" errors can carry extra text\n\nThe \"Browser extension is not connected\" error messages can now end with extra text, always for remote cases and sometimes for the local one\n\n**Unclear.** What the added text says, and the condition that adds it to the local message, are not clear.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can control a web browser through its Chrome extension. When it cannot reach that extension it shows a message beginning \"Browser extension is not connected.\" Those messages can now end with additional text:\n\n- The remote and non-local versions of the message always add it.\n\n- The version for your own computer adds it only when a certain condition is met.\n\nIn the previous version these messages had nothing after them.\n\n**Why**\n\nYou may see more troubleshooting text when the browser connection fails.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}