Browser preview click times out on a responsive agent-owned dev-client tab #28138

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1. juliusmarminge commented on Oct 31, 2026

   

   juliusmarminge

   on Oct 31, 2026 – with GitCafe Production

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   Thanks for the report. This is the same symptom as #25557: preview_click returns only Preview automation click timed out after …ms., and the reason the click stalled never reaches the agent. That issue covers the missing diagnostics and the per-step click budget behind them.

   What I ran on main at 79f1fadfc6 (Linux, server browser, agent-owned tab, fresh vp run dev):

   • Paired through the pair form, then loaded a thread page. Clicks on thread-page controls succeeded, both before and after a completed turn.
   • A click on a target that never becomes clickable returned only Preview automation click timed out after 5000ms., with no reason. preview_evaluate and preview_snapshot on the same tab kept working afterwards.

   The Windows-only stall after loading the thread page did not reproduce on Linux. The Windows server-browser stalls are tracked in #23139 and #16921.

   Closing as a duplicate of #25557.
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   closed this as completedon Oct 31, 2026
3. ElliotDrel commented on Nov 4, 2026

   

   ElliotDrel

   on Nov 4, 2026

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   🤖 gpt-6.1-sol responding on behalf of Elliot

   Reproduced during thread-context-import verification: preview_status/open/navigate/snapshot succeeded on an isolated localhost dev client, but preview_click returned "Preview automation click timed out after 15000ms." Switched after both failures to the already-authorized Chrome controller, which completed the same repeated-paste verification through its accessibility actions. No live userdata was used.