codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix Codex App: In app browser to support sign in and authentication flows [1 comments, 1 participants]

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

I’d like to ask if authentication support in the Codex in-app browser is planned.

The current docs say:

"The in-app browser does not support authentication flows, signed-in pages, your regular browser profile, cookies, extensions, or existing tabs. Use it for pages Codex can open without logging in."

Source: https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/browser

I hit this while testing a local app at localhost:5173/login. The app uses Google sign-in. It works in Brave, but not in the Codex in-app browser.

From what I can tell, Google sign-in tries to open a new tab. In the Codex browser, that popup does not open. Google logs:

[GSI_LOGGER]: Failed to open popup window ... Maybe blocked by the browser?

I also tested a simple window.open(...), and it did not open a new tab in the Codex browser.

It would be helpful to know if supporting auth flows, popup/new-tab login flows, or some external-browser handoff is on the roadmap. A lot of local apps need login before the useful pages can be tested.

For now I understand the workaround is to use a normal browser for login-dependent pages, as the docs say.