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Problem

In the desktop app's browser preview, if the page fails to load while a recording runs (for example because the dev server being recorded crashes or restarts), the "Stop recording" button is disabled. The recording cannot be stopped from the preview and keeps capturing the error page; closing the tab stops it, but no "Recording saved" toast appears, so the user never sees where the file went.

Change

PreviewView disabled the capture button whenever the page had failed to load or the desktop overlay was missing. Stopping does not need either: handleCapture already runs the stop path first, and that path needs only the runtime tab. The button now stays enabled while a recording runs; screenshot capture is still disabled on a failed page.

Scope

Bug fix: a control that stops an ongoing recording does nothing in a common state. A very small fix of an obvious bug (one condition in one component plus one test case), so it needs no issue. Streamed server tabs show no capture button, and mobile has no such control.

Verification

To see it on Linux: open a page in the desktop browser preview, Shift-click the camera to record, stop the page's server and press Reload, then click "Stop recording". On main it is disabled.

This branch merges main at f70e349eca, which includes #35664. The new case in apps/web PreviewView.browser.test.tsx fails with that main's PreviewView.tsx (toBeEnabled fails: the button is disabled) and passes with the fix. Desktop app from source on Linux (Xvfb), main at a98bc69 (which also includes #35664) first, then this PR merged with that main at 338818a020, clicks through the debugging port and the click on "Stop recording" as X input. 338818a020 is a local merge of this PR with main a98bc69 that was not pushed; PreviewView.tsx and its test file are byte-identical between it and the pushed merge 88bffe4 with f70e349eca.

Before, main a98bc69: after the click, Stop recording is still disabled on the failed page and the recording keeps running

After, 338818a020: the click stops the recording and shows Recording saved with Copy path and Reveal in Files

Not checked: macOS and Windows desktop builds (the change is renderer-only and not platform-specific), and a desktop overlay going missing mid-recording. The fix covers that case too, but there is no test or capture for it.

The enabled-button capture, test and check detail, and the full earlier text

Problem (full text)

In the desktop app's browser preview, the camera button turns into "Stop recording" while a recording runs. If the page then fails to load, for example because the dev server being recorded crashes or restarts, that button is disabled. The recording cannot be stopped from the preview and keeps capturing the error page. Reloading a page that loads again re-enables the button. Closing the tab stops the recording, but no "Recording saved" toast appears, so the user never sees where the file went.

Steps: open a page in the desktop browser preview, Shift-click the camera to record, stop the page's server, press Reload, then click "Stop recording".

Change (full text)

PreviewView disabled the capture button whenever the page had failed to load or the desktop overlay was missing. Those conditions matter for taking a screenshot, but stopping does not need them: handleCapture already runs the stop path first, and that path needs only the runtime tab. The button now stays enabled while a recording runs. Screenshot capture is still disabled on a failed page, so the button goes back to disabled once the recording stops. PreviewChromeRow is unchanged.

The existing PreviewView browser test file gets one new case: with a recording running and the page in LoadFailed, "Stop recording" is enabled and clicking it calls stopBrowserRecording for that tab.

Scope and approval (full text)

This is a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug: a control that stops an ongoing recording is unusable in a common state. It changes one condition in one component and adds one test case. Streamed server tabs show no capture button, and mobile has no such control, so they are unaffected.

This PR edits PreviewView.tsx on different lines from #29475 (Stop cancels loading pages).

Verification (full text)

• The merge of main at f70e349eca had one conflict, in the test file's mocked tab: fix(web): streamed device toolbar starts at the panel size #35664 changed its runtime line and this PR its navStatus. Both lines are kept. PreviewView.tsx merged without a conflict; the change is the same one line.
• vp test run src/components/preview/PreviewView.browser.test.tsx (in apps/web, Node 26.12.1): 11 of 11 pass, including fix(web): streamed device toolbar starts at the panel size #35664's case; with that main's PreviewView.tsx only the new case fails. vp run typecheck (apps/web) and vp run check:changed against f70e349eca pass. The same checks passed on the earlier merge with a98bc69676 (338818a020).
• Desktop app (vp run dev:desktop from source, Linux, Xvfb at 1280x800), main at a98bc69 first, then this PR at 338818a020, the same script on both: I recorded a loopback demo page, stopped its server, pressed Refresh to get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, then clicked "Stop recording". The Shift-click and the other clicks went through the debugging port, the click on "Stop recording" as X input, and the pointer was parked away from the controls for each capture.

Before, main a98bc69: the page has failed, the recording is still running and Stop recording is disabled

After, 338818a020: on the same failed page, Stop recording is enabled

The earlier captures and videos (on fc5edd3 and a88d7f1) are replaced by this run, because PreviewView.tsx changed in the merge.

Not checked: macOS and Windows desktop builds (the change is renderer-only and not platform-specific), and a desktop overlay going missing mid-recording. The fix covers that case too, but there is no test or capture for it.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 3e41506

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The stop-recording button remains usable when the preview fails to load. Existing restrictions on starting captures remain unchanged, limiting the change to ending an active recording.

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Walkthrough

The preview capture control now accounts for active recordings when the desktop overlay is absent. Unreachable pages remain disabled. A browser test verifies that an active recording can be stopped after a failed page load.

Changes: Preview capture controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recording-aware capture control apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.browser.test.tsx	Capture remains enabled during an active recording when the desktop overlay is absent, unless the page is unreachable. The test simulates a failed page load and verifies that clicking Stop recording calls stopBrowserRecording with the runtime tab ID.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, jnunemaker

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 88bff

Stop recording stays enabled during an active recording even when the preview page fails to load. No merge-blocking risk was found.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: the Stop recording control keeps working when the preview page fails to load. It follows the conventional commit form and matches the changeset, which enables the capt…
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.
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It covers the Problem (Stop recording is disabled when the page fails to load during a recording), the Change (the capture button stays enabled…

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Explanation

The title names the main change: the Stop recording control keeps working when the preview page fails to load. It follows the conventional commit form and matches the changeset, which enables the capture button during an active recording when the page fails to load.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the repository template closely. It covers the Problem (Stop recording is disabled when the page fails to load during a recording), the Change (the capture button stays enabled while recording; screenshot capture stays disabled on a failed page), the Scope (a small bug fix with one condition and one test, with the reason no issue is linked), and a detailed Verification section with test results, desktop manual checks on Linux, before/after screenshots, and a list of unchecked items. Two template points are weak: the Scope section does not link an issue, and it states a reason for skipping one, which the template allows. The template asks for the agent model and harness at the end, and the description does include 'Generated with Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code Nightly'. The description is long and includes some repeated material in a collapsed details block, but all required sections are present and substantive.

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Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head 3e4150684518a82e9fede5ce35e94cd30594d082 on a linux boat vm, using the real electron client and its preview/recording bridge. playwright drove the actual controls. projects and threads were created through the app; real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns completed in the desktop client on main and in /usr/bin/google-chrome on this head. the recorded page serves live git status from the same local repository on both revisions. no mocked bridge or provider was used.

• before, on github/main (934c7f8d8e7a012aa55be9c0b17498979040fe02): shift-clicking capture started recording. after stopping the page's server and reloading into ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, stop recording was disabled. clicking its position left recording active.
• after, on this head: the same outage left stop recording enabled. clicking it ended recording, showed "Recording saved", and copy path returned an existing mp4. screenshot capture returned to disabled while the page remained unreachable.
• recovery: restarting the page's server and reloading re-enabled screenshot capture. a normal click saved a readable png. shift-click recording and normal stop also saved an mp4.

short runtime transcript:

main: serverPort=16733 webPort=8693, isolated .t3
pr:   serverPort=13773 webPort=5733, isolated .t3
page: 127.0.0.1:4317, live git repository status
main stop disabled after reload: true; recording still active
pr stop enabled after failed reload: true
pr saved toast visible: true
pr screenshot disabled after stop: true
pr screenshot enabled after recovery: true; png saved and inspected

blacksmith verification passed: all 7 tests in PreviewView.browser.test.tsx, and vp run check:changed a9e709f15f825cacac1b6d665fa1920c328d68b7 (format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, adjacent tests, react compiler). existing github ci is green. no source changes or pushes were needed.

Not verified

macos/windows desktop, native ios/android, disappearance of the desktop overlay, and loss of the ipc bridge were not exercised. the affected capture control is desktop-only; the ordinary web client has no equivalent recording button.

recording image fidelity has a separate limitation on this vm: the status page's transparent background exports black, hiding black text, on both main and this head; failed-page frames export white. mp4 files decoded and played, but this pass does not certify their visual fidelity. ordinary screenshot output was readable. the stop/save regression itself is verified.

electron used --password-store=basic for isolated development because the vm otherwise prompts to create a keyring. no keyring was created or unlocked.

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🤖 Opus 5.5 replying on behalf of Victor.

Thanks for running this end to end in the real desktop client. The side-by-side on main and this head is what the PR's own tests couldn't show: on main, Stop recording greys out after the page fails to load and recording keeps going; on this head it stays enabled, saves an mp4, and screenshot capture goes back to disabled until the page recovers. The recovery pass (screenshot and a second recording both saving after the server came back) also confirms the change doesn't leave capture stuck in either state.

Noted on what's still open: macOS/Windows, the desktop overlay going away, and bridge loss weren't exercised. The overlay case is already listed as untested in the PR, and bridge loss is outside what it claims. The black export of the transparent page background shows up on main as well, so it's separate from this change.

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🤖 Opus 5.5 replying on behalf of Victor.

@maria-rcks I merged main into this branch, so the head moved from 3e41506, which you ran, to a88d7f1; the only conflict was in the sessions mock of PreviewView.browser.test.tsx, and the fix line in PreviewView.tsx is unchanged.

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I merged main to clear the conflict with #35664. The one part I resolved by hand is in the preview test file, where main's line and this PR's are both kept; nothing else changed.