{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"browser-not-connected-prompt-reworded-no-link-points-to-de","canonical_anchor":"browser-not-connected-prompt-reworded-no-link-points-to-de","heading":"When no browser is connected, Claude points you to the desktop app or Claude in Chrome","tier":"notice","area":"Browser","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/browser-not-connected-prompt-reworded-no-link-points-to-de","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### When no browser is connected, Claude points you to the desktop app or Claude in Chrome\n\nClaude now suggests the Claude desktop app or Claude in Chrome when no browser is connected, and no longer gives a link\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude needs a browser but the browser extension is not connected, it receives instructions on what to tell you. Your app may also show a card for setting up a browser. Those instructions changed:\n\n- Before: one short sentence saying a browser is needed, which you could set up from the card or at [https:\/\/claude.ai\/chrome](https:\/\/claude.ai\/chrome).\n\n- Now: one or two short sentences saying you can set up the Claude desktop app or Claude in Chrome in the card below.\n\nClaude is also told to give no links or other installation steps, and to wait until you reply.\n\n**Why**\n\nWhen a browser tool cannot run, you are now pointed to the card in your app instead of a web link.\n\n- Area: Browser\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}