So, Open AI released a new Chrome extension for Codex. With this extension, Codex can browse Chrome on your behalf using your account, your history, and your passwords. But, we already have in-app browser in Codex.
So, what's the difference between the two? Well, the in-app browser is designed for local execution and testing. If we want to do something else on the internet, we should use the Chrome extension.
The Chrome extension, as we mentioned, is using sign-in sites that is stored on your account on Chrome. Before we see the demo and see how it works on Codex app, we must talk about permissions. By the way, I forgot to introduce myself.
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When you allow Codex to run a specific page, you give it a lot of permissions and a lot of information about your browsing history will be exposed. For example, it can read and change or all your data on this website. It can see your browsing history.
It can manage your downloads. And it can also view and manage your tab groups. I'm not telling you to skip this feature, but we need to be aware of the website we allow Codex to run on.
And we need to know that this information can be leaked as well. It's enough to see what Open AI wrote on this feature in their official documentation page. Treat page content as untrusted context and review the website before allowing Codex to continue.
Open AI also aware that with this feature, there's a huge vulnerability of prompt injection. So, we need to be aware what Codex will do on this website and which website it can browse. So, let's dive into it.
In order to install this plugin, we'll go to the plugins tab. We'll click here. Now, we need to go to the Chrome plugin.
And this is the the one we want, Chrome control Chrome with CodeX. Let's click on it. Now, we need to add to CodeX.
And that's it. Now, CodeX will open our browser and ask for our permission. I'll click install Chrome.
And that's it. We successfully installed the extension. To use this feature, we need to use the at sign and tag Chrome.
And after that, add your prompt. For example, go to all dev needs. com and create a password for me.
Let's execute. As you can see, now it asks for permission to access this website. I'm going to allow it.
As you can see, this tab is controlled by CodeX, and it generated a password for me. This is the password it generated. So, let's get back to CodeX app.
And that's it. This is the password it created on the website. We can take it even farther and use sub-agents with this feature.
For example, create five passwords with five sub-agents that run in parallel. Let's see how it works. This is not the smartest example that I ever used, but I use it for our demonstration, so you can be aware that using sub-agents will work great with this feature.
You can see that it created several sub-agents, and now all of them are working in parallel. The CodeX Chrome extension can access the dev tools, so if you have any production issue, you can use it as well. This Chrome extension has a lot of potential, but you must take the risks into consideration.
If you got to this point, you probably want to master using Codex for better results. That's why I created these videos for you.
