I Tested OpenClaw 2.0 Browser Use… Here’s the Truth

Julian Goldie (0:00)

Today, we're going to be looking at OpenClaw 2 Browser Use, and whether it can actually, for example, like pose for you. Is it actually useful when it comes to browser use? What's the best brain to use inside it? And also how you can connect it into other channels. So let's get straight into this. This is the latest version of OpenClaw 2.0. This is based on one of the questions we had inside the AI Profit Boardroom. So if you want me to create tutorials for you like this, videos for you like this, well, this was based on a member question. So if you have questions like this, feel free to check out the AI Profit Boardroom and post inside there. Let's get into it.

Hey, Kevin. All right. Great questions here. So the first thing you want to do is to give the OpenClaw the browser, right? So it's pretty simple and easy. You can see an example here.

For example, you can see in this OpenClaw instance, we said you work in, said, yes, I'm here. Can you use a browser for me? Said yes. The website. What's the website I should open? And then we said, can you open up juliangoldie.com for me? And it opened up, right? So basically, it's pretty simple. If you want OpenClaw to do stuff for you, it can just reply straight away for you, and it can open up any page directly for you. As you can see, it's just opened up juliangoldie.com for us directly here. Next up, what you want to do is get it to control and run Etsy for you, which is pretty interesting.

So when it comes to running Etsy, I don't know if it will be good for that, but we can test it out. So the thing that you might find is like it can open stuff up in the browser. I don't know how good it is actually logging in the controller, but let's test it out. Number one thing that I'd recommend here is using the best API that you can for browser use and computer use. So if you want this to actually be anywhere near effective, if you want to make sure that you have GPT-Astra 6 configured as the brain of OpenClaw, if you don't, then it's probably going to be quite messy and not work so well, because most other APIs are not very good at computer use. So if you want browser use and computer use to be good, make sure you have the best brain plugged in. So you can see an example here where we are using OpenClaw to access our browser. We just have to allow it. Now, also one of the problems here is that it's opening up OpenClaw inside Chromium, right? Chromium is kind of like a setup where you're not logged in to your existing Chrome browser. So basically, you can't operate my existing logins for me, which is not ideal. So what we're going to do instead is we're going to go back to OpenClaw here and we have to enable remote debugging. And that allows OpenClaw to connect to our browser. So we're just going to go over here and then we have to allow remote debugging for this browser instance. This allows OpenClaw to connect to our community or wherever you want to post. So from here, I'm going to say, okay, that's set up. And so it should reconnect now. We're going to click allow and then it should be able to connect to our page that we've directed it to. So I've said, make a post about OpenClaw, open this up in my browser and make it a post. You can see it's connected to this page and navigate directly to it. You can see again, for actual browser use when it comes to OpenClaw, it's okay, but it's not like amazing. So it's not, if you look at this, it's not blowing my mind.

And the reason I think for that is simply because we're not at the point where like AI can click buttons perfectly for us. We still have to direct it in the right way, if that makes sense. So it's been a little bit slow, but it is making that post for us right here. The other thing I would say here is actually if you use Codex directly, sometimes that's faster than using OpenClaw. So when you're using, for example, Codex, they've designed it with a Chrome extension, where it can just connect to Chrome and post directly for us or, you know, go into a website for us. And I think that's a lot more efficient than using OpenClaw. So now it's writing the title, as you can see, and now it's beginning to actually write the post as well. By the way, this has taken two minutes already. So OpenClaw 2.0, not bad for browser use, but not amazing. Like not at the point where I think it could replace someone. So you can see here that it's now written the post, it's written the headline, it's written the content in the post itself. The post itself looks good as well, so the content of the post looks good. And again, like Astra 6 is going to be best for this because it's the best at computer use, like out of all of the models out there right now. So that's how I would use OpenClaw for this. Again, do I recommend it? Probably not. And now it's finished off the post. That took three minutes in total. And you can see the post right here. So if you're not in a rush, this could be decent. I'm just going to delete that because we don't need it. But that just gives you an example of what it can do. And we did it all from OpenClaw. And then I know you mentioned that you wanted to connect this to Telegram, right? Send you a message once it's done. So if you want to connect OpenClaw to Telegram or to any sort of messaging and platform, quite simple and easy. So you just go to channels inside your settings here, and you can set up like WhatsApp or Telegram or Discord or whatever you prefer. So you can set up any of these and that's how you can connect them. So basically the prompt that you would use once you set up the channel. So once you set up the channel, you would go inside OpenClaw and just say, okay, you know, do this on that website, and then message me via Telegram once you've completed this task for me. So just to recap, can you connect OpenClaw in the browser? Yes, I've shown you examples right here, how to do it. Just follow this workflow that we've run through today. Can it manage, for example, e-com store? Potentially, but it's not going to be that accurate or that efficient in terms of time. You might be better just using Codex, but even then, it's kind of like, it's okay, but it's not great. And finally, for sending messages on Telegram, you just connect the channels inside your settings, which we've talked about as well. So that's pretty much how to use OpenClaw and the browser session. So thanks so much for watching.