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In corporate environments where browser policy is being applied to Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, Cypress may fail to connect to the corresponding browser if the policy RemoteDebuggingAllowed is set to false.

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Add information to Launching Browsers concerning the required policy settings:

Browser Policy documentation
Google Chrome RemoteDebuggingAllowed
Microsoft Edge RemoteDebuggingAllowed

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@MikeMcC399 Thanks, this is a nice catch

@jennifer-shehane jennifer-shehane merged commit cc86752 into cypress-io:main Oct 8, 2025
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Thanks, this is a nice catch

For some reason the issue was only being reported by users in Asia, and it took me a bit of research and testing before I understood it and was confident to document it. So thanks for merging!

@MikeMcC399 MikeMcC399 deleted the browser-remote-debugging-allowed branch October 8, 2025 14:11
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