I just installed openclaw, i want it to start browsing the web, but going all technical here, it feels like I’m over-complicating something that should be very straight forward as it’s needed by most users. What am I missing?
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Was struggling with it for a little while as well , Make sure open claw is not sandboxed and ask it to install chrome, solved it for me
Heya, @0c64bf3b694d4bb1904f3e7a94620f
I might be wrong here, but I don’t think you’re actually missing anything obvious.
OpenClaw doesn’t come with a built-in browser, and on a DigitalOcean droplet you don’t have a desktop environment anyway. So there’s nothing that will just “open a browser” out of the box.
If you mean accessing websites programmatically, that usually happens without a browser (just requests or APIs). If you actually need a real browser, you have to install something like Chromium yourself and run it headless or through a tool like Playwright.
I think the confusion is just expecting it to behave like a normal app, when it’s more of a backend tool.
Regards
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