Feature requests: window focus for computer tool, translate suppression, PATH persistence, popup window tracking
Context
During an extended session (building/deploying two Node.js apps to Railway via browser automation, plus winget-installing git/gh mid-session and using them from the PowerShell tool), I hit four recurring friction points. Filing on behalf of the user, who asked me to pass this along since they don't have another feedback channel.
1. computer tool actions silently no-op when the Chrome window isn't OS-focused
GitHub's OAuth "Authorize" button (and similar clickjacking-guard buttons) stay disabled until document.hasFocus() is true. When the automated Chrome window wasn't the OS foreground window, clicks landed but nothing happened, with no error — I had to notice via document.hasFocus() in javascript_tool, then use a native P/Invoke SetForegroundWindow call from PowerShell as a workaround. A built-in "ensure this tab's window is OS-focused" step before dispatching computer actions (or at least a diagnostic hint when a click target is disabled/unfocused) would remove a lot of trial-and-error.
2. No way to suppress Chrome's auto-translate on automated tabs
Chrome's built-in translate feature kept re-rendering pages mid-interaction (translating newly-loaded English UI to Japanese based on browser locale), which shifted DOM layout and coordinates right after a screenshot was taken, causing misclicks. chrome://settings/languages is (correctly, for safety) off-limits to page navigation/interaction from the automation tools, so there's no sanctioned way to turn this off for a session. A scoped capability — e.g. a per-tab or per-session flag to disable translate prompts specifically, without opening up general chrome://settings access — would help.
3. PowerShell tool always runs with -NoProfile, so PATH fixes from winget install don't propagate within a session
After winget install-ing git and gh mid-session, every subsequent PowerShell tool call still failed to find them, because each call spawns a fresh process inheriting the original environment block (captured when the parent host process launched), not a live registry read. Writing a $PROFILE script to patch PATH didn't help either, since the tool invokes powershell.exe with -NoProfile. The only workaround was manually prepending $env:Path = "...;" + $env:Path in every single command that needed the newly-installed tools. An opt-in flag (or automatic detection) to re-resolve PATH from the registry per-call — or to allow a lightweight, tool-controlled persistent env file that's sourced each call — would remove this recurring boilerplate.
4. Popup windows (window.open()) don't join the MCP tab group
Clicking things like "Install GitHub App" opened a new native Chrome window that wasn't tracked by tabs_context_mcp. I had to fall back to raw Win32 EnumWindows/PostMessage calls from PowerShell to find and close it, then reconstruct the same navigation via a direct URL on a tracked tab instead. Native tracking of windows/tabs opened via window.open() from an already-tracked tab (auto-adopt into the same group, or at least surface them in tabs_context_mcp) would avoid this.
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Happy to provide the full transcript/more repro detail if useful — this came up organically while doing real deployment work, not a synthetic test.