Launch Kombai Browser
Here are two ways to launch the Kombai Browser:Use the Globe icon
Use the Globe icon
Follow the steps below to launch the Kombai Browser without running a specific project:
- Click the icon. In the desktop app, it’s in the top bar above the chat, and also in the row below the chat input on the home screen. A green dot on the icon means the browser is already running.
- Click the icon.
Use the localhost link in the chat
Use the localhost link in the chat
Follow the steps below to preview your project in the Kombai Browser:
- Ask Kombai in the chat to run your project.
- Once the server is running, a localhost link will appear in the chat stream.
- Click the link to load your project’s preview in the Kombai Browser.
Extension UI
Kombai Browser has a pre-installed extension that lets you update the UI with built-in tools and send the data back to the agent as context. The browser extension is divided into four parts:Chat selector
The browser extension has a chat selector at the top that lets you choose which chat to send your messages to. You can either send your messages to an existing chat or start a new one. The selector has two sections:- Send to an active chat: Lists the chats you currently have open. Pick one, and your message is appended as the next message in that same thread, so the agent keeps all the context of that conversation.
- Send to a new chat: Lists your projects. Pick one, and your message starts a new chat inside that project.
Chat input window
The chat input window is the main area where you can type messages and send them to the Kombai agent. All attached DOM elements and CSS changes are displayed at the top of this window. The send button offers two actions:- Send to agent: It sends your message and the attached context to Kombai immediately.
- Add to Chat: It stages the attached context in the Kombai chat without sending.
Layers
The Layers section, located below the chat input window, contains the entire DOM tree of the current page. Scroll within the Layers section to view the page’s DOM structure. Click on an element to attach it to the chat input window.Design and CSS
The Design and CSS tabs, located below Layers, let you visually edit the CSS of the current page, view a table of all applied CSS properties, and edit the CSS properties directly in the table. The visual editor includes the following capabilities:- Text Styles: Experiment with various font families, weights, sizes, colors, line heights, letter spacings, text alignments, and text cases.
- Appearance: Change the opacity and corner radius of an element.
- Position: Move elements across the X, Y, and Z axes or enable absolute positioning.
- Layout: Edit the flow, dimensions, padding, and margin of an element.
- Background: Add solid colors or gradients as backgrounds and adjust opacity.
- Border: Add borders with solid colors or gradients and adjust the opacity, style, width, and direction.
- Shadow & Blur: Add drop shadows, inner shadows, layer blurs, and background blurs to a UI element.
- Animation: Choose from the available animation types and adjust duration, delay, timing, and iteration count.
Import cookies from Chrome profiles
By default, the Kombai agent operates within its own dedicated Chrome profile to keep it separate from your regular web browsing. As a result, it appears as a distinct application in your dock and won’t have any of your accounts logged in. To use your existing Chrome profiles, you need to import them into the Kombai Browser. When you import a Chrome profile, Kombai only downloads the cookies of that specific Chrome profile.This feature is currently supported only on Mac.
Import a Chrome profile
Follow these steps to import an existing Chrome profile:- Click the icon in Kombai’s top menubar to open the Settings page.
- Navigate to the Kombai Browser tab.
- Under, Profiles & Session Sync section, click the icon next to the profile you want to import.
- Click Proceed and authenticate.
- Click Mark as Default to make this profile the default in the Kombai Browser.
How to make a profile default
You can also make a Chrome profile default. This is handy when you work with multiple profiles inside the Kombai Browser. When you set a Chrome profile as the default in Kombai and launch the Kombai Browser, it will use the saved cookies from that default profile. To use another profile in the Kombai Browser, you need to make that profile default. Here’s how to make a profile default:- Click the icon in Kombai’s top menubar to open the Settings page.
- Navigate to the Kombai Browser tab.
- Under, Profiles & Session Sync section, hover over a profile.
- Click the pin icon to make it default.
Sync cookies
When you import a Chrome profile, Kombai downloads your cookies at that specific time. If you later log into new sites in your regular Chrome browser, those sessions won’t be available in the Kombai Browser automatically. Here’s how to sync your cookies:- Click the icon in Kombai’s top menubar to open the Settings page.
- Navigate to the Kombai Browser tab.
- Under Profiles & Session Sync section, click the icon next to the profile you want to resync.