[Bug] Chrome profile selection inconsistent and fails to detect open instances

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jan 23, 2026 by smaccoun Closed Jan 26, 2026

Bug Description
omg claude in chrome is nice but for the love of god it never opens the correct chrome profile. I'll have two chrome profile windows open one for testing different htings and most things select the current chrome you are using. This one almost never does ( i cant even figure out its decision logic) and then often i'll only have one open and it will say i'm not connected. So frustrating lol

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: 2.1.17
  • Feedback ID: cf4b6dce-9d6b-41b7-abce-573b484de6d2

Errors

[{"error":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Library/Application Support/ClaudeCode/.claude/skills'\n    at Module.readdirSync (node:fs:1583:26)\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:9:1766\n    at fX (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:8:34782)\n    at Object.readdirSync (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:9:1736)\n    at C01 (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1537:369)\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1537:4279\n    at q (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:8:6807)\n    at Ih2 (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:4842:4362)\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:4842:6961\n    at q (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:8:6807)","timestamp":"2026-01-23T02:05:03.657Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/skills'\n    at Module.readdirSync (node:fs:1583:26)\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:9:1766\n    at fX (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:8:34782)\n    at Object.readdirSync (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:9:1736)\n    at C01 (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1537:369)\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1537:4322\n    at q (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:8:6807)\n    at Ih2 (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:4842:4362)\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:4842:6961\n    at q (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:8:6807)","timestamp":"2026-01-23T02:05:03.657Z"},{"error":"SyntaxError: Expected double-quoted property name in JSON at position 1493 (line 44 column 7)\n    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:66:675\n    at q (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:8:6807)\n    at kC2 (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:4290:6864)\n    at async F0K (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:4290:9643)","timestamp":"2026-01-23T02:05:04.158Z"},{"error":"Error: LSP server plugin:rust-analyzer-lsp:rust-analyzer crashed with exit code 1\n    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1607:21510)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:293:12)","timestamp":"2026-01-23T02:05:04.718Z"},{"error":"Error: Error opening file /Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/projects/-Users-stevenmaccoun-il-monorepo/2e79d575-5641-424b-98dc-5d560520039a.jsonl: RangeError: Invalid string length\n    at tm (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:66:172)\n    at async FDA (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3876:2060)\n    at async X6K (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:3877:629)","timestamp":"2026-01-23T02:05:11.759Z"},{"error":"Error: Error parsing line in /Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/projects/-Users-stevenmaccoun-il-monorepo/b7d3a559-e407-4eef-85b8-99fe04a4ff48.jsonl: SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'I', \"I4viTyER6L\"... is not valid JSON\n    at file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:66:80\n    at Array.map (<anonymous>)\n    at tm (file:///Users/stevenmaccoun/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:66:26)\n    at async FDA (file…

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