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Browser Control MCP An MCP server paired with a Firefox browser extension that provides AI assistants with access to tab management, browsing history, and webpage text content. Features The MCP server supports the following tools: Open or close tabs Get the list of opened tabs Create tab groups with name and color Reorder opened tabs Read and search the browser's history Read a webpage's text content and links (requires user consent) Find and highlight text in a browser tab (requires user consent) Example use-cases: Tab management "Close all non-work-related tabs in my browser." "Group all development related tabs in my browser into a new group called 'Development'." "Rearrange tabs in my browser in an order that makes sense." "Close all tabs in my browser that haven't been accessed within the past 24 hours" Browser history search "Help me find an article in my browser history about the Milford track in NZ." "Open all the articles about AI that I visited during the last week, up to 10 articles, avoid duplications." Browsing and research "Open hackernews in my browser, then open the top story, read it, also read the comments.
| Stars | 317 |
| Forks | 73 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 76.3930880790178/100 |
| Open Issues | 23 |
| Last Updated | 2026-08-23 |
| Created | 2025-03-27 |
| Platforms | browser, mcp, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~15k |
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browser-control-mcp is MCP server paired with a browser extension that enables AI agents to control the user's browser.. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 317 GitHub stars.
browser-control-mcp is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as browser-extension, firefox, mcp.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the browser-control-mcp GitHub repository at github.com/eyalzh/browser-control-mcp. The project has 317 stars and 73 forks, indicating an active community.
browser-control-mcp is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
The top alternatives to browser-control-mcp on Agent Skills Hub include better-deepseek, firefox-devtools-mcp, camofox-browser. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.
Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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