Despite its name, Codex isn’t just for coders and programmers—anyone can and should use it.

OpenAI today launched Codex for Chrome, a Chrome extension that lets Codex work directly in the browser on Macs and PCs. With the extension, Codex can use the browser to test web apps, get context across multiple tabs,

OpenAI’s Codex Chrome extension pushes the coding agent into signed-in browser work, making it more useful for real tasks while raising new questions about access, approvals, and agentic AI risk.The Latest Tech News,

OpenAI launched Codex as a macOS app in February, and followed that up with additional features in April. Eventually, the company plans to offer a combined app that unites Codex with the ChatGPT chatbot and its own web browser Atlas. The Chrome extension works on both Windows and Mac systems.

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging from new developer capabilities to expansion into non-developer knowledge work to laying the groundwork for the company’s “super app.”

Discover the key differences between Claude Co-work and OpenAI Codex, including pricing, integrations, and automation features for regular users.

GPT-5-Codex is now available across all Codex platforms, serving as the default option for cloud tasks and code review. Developers can also select it for local tasks through Codex CLI and the IDE extension. OpenAI has been steadily enhancing Codex since launching Codex CLI in April and Codex web in May.

OpenAI has introduced a new Chrome extension for Codex, enabling seamless integration with the browser to test web apps, access multi-tab context, and utilize DevTools efficiently.