gsc_use_browser
Choose which browser profile the Google Search Console MCP server uses, overriding auto-detection. Pin a specific browser and profile, or clear the pin to return to the recommended option.
Instructions
Choose which browser profile this server drives, overriding detection.
Local-only: writes one preference to this server's config file, makes no network call, spends no quota, needs no token, and opens no browser. Use it when gsc_detect_browsers recommends a profile that is not the one holding your Search Console account — the detector can rank the profiles it finds, but it cannot know which browser you work in.
browser is the browser_key from gsc_detect_browsers ("chrome",
"brave", "edge", "vivaldi", "opera", "chromium") — the key, not the
display label. profile is the profile field from the same entry
(the profile DIRECTORY, e.g. "Default" or "Profile 3"); omit it to take
that browser's default profile. clear=True removes the pin and
returns to the detector's recommendation, and ignores the other two.
The pair is checked against the profiles that actually exist BEFORE it
is saved. A pair that matches nothing is refused with {"ok": False, "error": "browser_not_found", ...} whose fix lists the pairs that
would work, so a typo is answered immediately rather than becoming a
browser that silently never opens.
Once pinned, the choice is absolute: gsc_setup, gsc_doctor and every tool that drives the browser use it, and the ranking is not consulted. If the pinned profile later disappears — browser uninstalled, profile deleted — nothing falls back to a different one. Every affected tool stops and says the pin is dangling, because driving the wrong profile would submit URLs from whichever account happens to be signed in there.
The pin survives restarts. Returns {"ok": True, "pinned": "<browser> / <profile>" or null, "note": ...}.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| clear | No | ||
| browser | No | ||
| profile | No |