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Problem

When the server browser opens a preview tab, it creates the Playwright page first and then runs several setup steps on it: it opens a CDP session, installs PDF navigation, presents the page as Chrome, sets the viewport, applies rendering, and on the desktop path enables Page. If any of those steps throws (for example, the page or the desktop tab closes partway through with "Target page, context or browser has been closed"), the tab never reaches tabs. After that, nothing ever closes:

• the page itself,
• the tab's isolated BrowserContext (agent and incognito tabs), which also stays cached in ServerBrowserContexts under the tab's key,
• on the desktop path, the CDP relay: a loopback WebSocket listener whose scope is the thing that sends the desktop its release.

openTab already closes the manager session when this happens, but it has no way to reach these resources. Each retry through findTab/ensureTab leaks another page.

Change

createTab now wraps the existing body, renamed setUpTab. The body registers a closer for each resource as it gets it (the desktop connection, the isolated context, the non-desktop page). If setup throws, the wrapper runs those closers in reverse order, ignores their errors, and rethrows. The closedPendingTabs branch did this same cleanup by hand. It now only closes its SessionControl and throws, and the wrapper handles the rest in the same order as before. The desktop page is still released only through desktop.close, never closed directly. The wrapper exists so the ~200-line body doesn't have to be reindented.

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so no prior issue. The code already intends to clean up an unpublished tab: the closedPendingTabs branch does exactly this. Only the exception path skipped it. Changes: one file plus one extended test, 20 non-test lines.

Overlap search: #29865 fixes the preview_open initial-navigation failure in runOperation, which runs after createTab has returned, so it is a different step and touches different lines. #24440 (failed preview recovery controls) and #18431 (tab capacity reservation) don't touch createTab's setup failure path.

Verification

• Red on main: I extended "failed session and browser launches release capacity, as does closing a tab" with a case where newCDPSession rejects after the page exists. On main it fails with AssertionError: expected "vi.fn()" to be called at least once at expect(contexts.at(-1)!.close).toHaveBeenCalled().
• Green: vp test run src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts passes 53/53. The test also checks that the page is closed and the session count is unchanged.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests all pass.
• Not checked: a real Chromium or desktop run where a tab closes mid-setup. The desktop relay cleanup is verified by code reading (it goes through desktop.close, the same call the existing pending-close branch used).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 1dabbee

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Failed preview-tab setup now closes acquired pages, isolated contexts and desktop connections instead of leaving them open. Cleanup is limited to the failed setup; successful tabs and shared browser contexts retain their existing behavior.

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Walkthrough

Tab setup now records acquired resources and closes them in reverse order if setup fails. A test covers a page CDP-session setup failure and checks that the page and context close without increasing the manager’s session count.

Changes: Preview tab setup cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Register and clean up tab resources apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts	createTab closes registered resources in reverse order when setup throws, then rethrows the error. The closed-pending-tab branch relies on this cleanup. Tests inject a page CDP-session setup failure and verify that the page and context close and the manager’s session count remains unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• Issue 24159 reports preview tabs remaining open and consuming the shared tab limit. This change closes resources for a setup-failure path that could leave tabs consuming that limit.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 1dabb

The cleanup code is covered only indirectly; add the focused persistent-profile test to prevent page-leak regressions.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: preview tabs that fail during setup no longer leave their page open. The changeset wraps createTab in a cleanup path that closes registered resources in reverse order …
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It covers Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. The Problem section gives the failure mode and the leaked resources. The Change sectio…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: preview tabs that fail during setup no longer leave their page open. The changeset wraps createTab in a cleanup path that closes registered resources in reverse order when setup throws. The title follows the conventional commit format and is specific, so it passes.

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The description follows the repository template. It covers Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. The Problem section gives the failure mode and the leaked resources. The Change section explains the wrapper and the closedPendingTabs cleanup. The Scope section explains why no prior issue exists and lists overlapping work. The Verification section gives a failing-then-passing test, the test count, the check run, and what was not verified. The description does not meet every template prompt in full, but it is mostly complete. The template asks for a linked issue or maintainer approval for non-trivial changes, and the author relies on the small-obvious-bug exemption. The template also asks to name the model and harness, and the description does this.

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Follow-up Comments

Add a non-isolated setup-failure case for page cleanup.

2251-2251: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add a non-isolated setup-failure case for page cleanup.

The mock context.close() closes the page, so the current assertion can pass without exercising the explicit page.close() cleanup. Use a persistent, non-incognito profile for a setup failure after newPage(). Assert that the page closes while the shared context remains open.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts at line 2251:
Add a setup-failure cleanup case in the ServerBrowser tests using a persistent,
non-incognito profile that fails after newPage() succeeds. Assert the page is
closed and the shared context remains open, ensuring the test exercises explicit
page cleanup rather than context.close().

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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified exact head 1dabbeeb0c1366d6487e235ecf5046051f0aaa3b against github/main at 61c3794c32 on a linux boat vm. no source changes were needed.

ran vp i and one background dev server at a time with separate state. used repository playwright-core and /usr/bin/google-chrome. created a real git repo, added it through the app, and completed real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns.

reproduced the setup exception by detaching the real chrome cdp session at a debugger breakpoint immediately before installPdfDocumentNavigation. no mocks or app source modifications. both versions raised cdpSession.send: Target page, context or browser has been closed.

• main: the failed page remained open. the successful client retry left two pages in the shared context.
• pr: the failed page closed. the retry left one working page, and the shared profile remained usable.
• real codex preview_open with the shared profile: the failed call returned its error and closed its page without closing the existing shared page.
• real codex preview_open with profileId=incognito: the failed page closed, its context had zero pages, and chrome had zero remaining isolated contexts. a subsequent real provider call opened a fresh incognito tab and preview_snapshot read its title.
• nearby web behavior: navigation, refresh, and close/reopen passed.

ServerBrowser.test.ts: 53/53 passed through a task-owned blacksmith worker. current github checks are green. no commits or pushes.

command transcript and verification details

Not verified

native electron desktop relay release/listener cleanup, macos/windows, native ios/android, and remote relay/tunnel mode. this proves cleanup of a real forced setup exception, not the frequency of a spontaneous close-during-setup race.

an earlier incognito attempt was interrupted by overlapping debugger helpers detaching twice. that harness error stopped the server. corrected the helper, restarted with the same persisted state, and repeated successfully. the restart visible in the conversation belongs to that attempt. the transcript records it separately.