Browser: preview what you're building
The Browser is a web view inside Merget, so you can check your dev server, a deployed app, or some documentation without switching windows while an agent works. It's intentionally minimal: an address bar, back/forward/reload, and the page.
Opening it
The Browser isn't one of the toolbar tabs. It opens in two ways:
- Repository menu → Browser in the app's menu bar.
- From a URL in chat or a terminal: highlight
a URL in either panel and choose Open in browser from the little menu
that appears — Merget switches to the Browser view and loads it. Handy when
an agent prints
http://localhost:5173after starting your dev server.
Each repository remembers its last URL, so reopening the Browser brings back the page you were on. A repo you've never browsed in starts blank — there's no default homepage.
Navigating
Type into the address bar and press Enter. A full URL loads as-is, a bare
domain like example.com gets https:// added, and anything else becomes a
web search. Back, Forward, and Reload buttons sit to the left of
the bar, and the bar updates as you click through links.
Under the hood
The Browser is an embedded webview owned by the Merget app — separate from
your system browser, with its own cookies and session, so logins there don't
carry over. localhost URLs work because the webview runs on your machine,
talking to your dev server directly. The page itself survives switching to
other tabs in the same repository: come back and it's exactly where you left
it, no reload.
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