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title: "Browser"
description: "Open and control the browser running inside a cloud session's sandbox."
---

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# Browser

Every cloud session includes a browser inside its sandbox. Indent can use it to test your
application, and you can open the same browser from the session's **Browser** tab.

![The Browser tab showing a local application running in the session's sandbox](/images/browser-panel.png)

## Open the browser

Select **Browser** in the tool panel toolbar at the top of the session. Opening the tab wakes a
sleeping sandbox. The panel connects automatically and waits for the first browser frame.

Click inside the browser to interact with it. You can navigate, type, scroll, and use browser
devtools as you would in a local browser. While the browser has keyboard focus, click outside it to
use Indent's keyboard shortcuts again.

Use the panel controls to expand, restore, close, or resize the tool panel. The browser viewport
resizes with the panel. If the connection drops, the panel reconnects automatically.

If an application opens more than one top-level window, the Browser tab displays the windows in a
grid.

## Open your application at session start

An environment can automatically open up to 16 URLs when a session starts. In
[**Settings → Environments**](https://app.indent.com/settings/environments), select an environment,
open **Configure**, and add the URLs under **Browser tabs**.

Use a loopback URL such as `http://localhost:3000` for a service running in the sandbox. Indent
waits for configured loopback services before opening the browser. Changes apply to new sessions
that use the environment.

You can also ask Indent to open a URL, test a flow, or capture a screenshot. Its actions appear in
the same browser.

Source: https://docs.indent.com/cloud-sessions/browser/index.mdx