# Browser widget > A real web browser on your desk that remembers its page, with window-size presets, full screen, Pin to Apps, a page right-click menu and AI that finds the site. Source: https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-browser Section: Widgets > Web and apps Plans: All plans Updated: 2026-10-10 The Browser widget puts a working web browser on your desk. Use it to keep a site you need for this piece of work beside your notes, tables and documents: a dashboard, a reference page, a form you fill in every week. It remembers the page you were on, so it opens where you left off the next time you come back to the desk. A new Browser widget opens at **Desktop** size, 1920 × 1080, so sites lay out the way they would on a large screen. Zoom the canvas in or out to work with it comfortably, or pick a smaller size from the toolbar. ## Before you start - **Plans.** The Browser widget is part of every plan. - **Where it works.** The full browser runs in the PlexiDesk app. On a desk someone opens from a share link, the widget looks different. See [When you share a desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-browser#when-you-share-a-desk). ## Add a Browser widget 1. Open the desk you want it on. 2. Press `B` on the desk, or click **Add widget** in the header and choose **Browser**. 3. In the box that appears, type a web address, or words to search for, and click **Load**. In the **Add widget** menu, **Browser** is in the **Web & apps** column. You can also type "browser" in the search box at the top of the menu and press `Enter`. There are other ways to get a page onto a desk: - **Drag a link or a tab** from your web browser onto the desk. It opens as a Browser widget where you drop it. - **Drag a connected app** from the side menu onto the desk. See [Keep a site signed in on your desks](https://plexiidesk.com/help/browser-stay-signed-in). - **Let AI find the site.** An empty Browser widget shows **Set up with AI**. See [AI](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-browser#ai), below. ## Use the page Until you click a Browser widget, scrolling over it moves the desk, not the page, so a large browser does not catch your scroll wheel as you move around. Point at it and you see **Click to interact**. 1. Click the page once. The widget becomes active and the page responds to your mouse and keyboard as it would in any browser. 2. Click elsewhere on the desk when you are done. When you are zoomed out, hold `⌘` on a Mac or `Ctrl` on Windows and click the widget to zoom straight in to it at full size. Links that a page opens in a new tab open as a new Browser widget on the desk, just below and to the right of this one. Sign-in windows and pop-up windows that a site opens appear in their own window. ## The toolbar Along the top of the page, from left to right: - **Back** and **Forward**: move through the pages you have visited in this widget. - **Reload**: loads the page again. While a page is loading, it becomes **Stop**. - **Search or enter address**: click it, type an address or a search, and press `Enter`. An address opens the site; anything else is searched for. Press `Esc` to leave the box without changing the page. - **Search engine chip**: shows which search engine your searches use. Click it to choose another. The choice applies to every browser in PlexiDesk. - **Open in your system browser**: opens the current page in your computer's own web browser. - **Open full screen**: opens the same page in PlexiDesk's full-screen browser. A Browser widget that is not pinned to a connected app shares its sign-ins with the full-screen browser, so you stay signed in there. To step back, click **Back to the side panel** or press `Esc`; click **Close**, or press `Esc` again, to close it. See [Browse the web inside PlexiDesk](https://plexiidesk.com/help). - **Resize to a stored resolution**: snaps the widget to a common screen size. See the next section. ## Window sizes Click **Resize to a stored resolution** in the toolbar to open the **Window size** menu, then choose a size. The widget changes to that size, and the page lays out as it would on that kind of screen. If the widget is already at one of these sizes, that size has a tick. | Size | Width × height | |---|---| | Mobile | 390 × 844 | | Tablet | 768 × 1024 | | Tablet (landscape) | 1024 × 768 | | Laptop | 1366 × 768 | | Desktop | 1920 × 1080 | Use **Mobile** or **Tablet** to see how your own site looks on a phone or tablet, or **Tablet (landscape)** to fit a page on a small screen. ## The chips at the top right of the page - **pin to apps**: turns this site into a connected app, so every Browser widget for it shares one sign-in. See [Keep a site signed in on your desks](https://plexiidesk.com/help/browser-stay-signed-in). - **The app's name**: once the widget belongs to a connected app, this chip shows the app's name in place of **pin to apps**. - **edit**: opens the address form, where you can type a new address and click **Load**. ## Right-click menus ### Inside the page Right-click text, a link, an image or a video in the page to open PlexiDesk's menu. As well as the rows every widget has, it adds: - **Open link in new browser** (on a link): opens the link in a new Browser widget beside this one, linked to it. - **Copy link** (on a link): copies the link's address. - **Save image to desk** (on an image): adds the image to the desk as an Image widget, linked to this browser. - **Save video to desk** (on a video): adds the video to the desk as a widget, linked to this browser. - **AI Assist** (on selected text): rewrite, summarise, translate or otherwise work with the text you selected. See [AI Assist: rewrite, summarise and translate text](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-ai-assist). - **Open in browser** and **Copy URL**: open the widget's current page in your computer's own web browser, or copy its address. - **Add to Attention…**: starts an Attention item from the page, or from the text you selected, with the page's address kept on it. You confirm the item before it is filed. This row shows while Attention is turned on. See [Capture something into Attention](https://plexiidesk.com/help) and [Turn Attention on or off](https://plexiidesk.com/help). Right-click inside a text box on the page and you get the usual editing menu instead: spelling suggestions, **Add to dictionary**, **Undo**, **Redo**, **Cut**, **Copy**, **Paste** and **Select All**. ### On the title bar Right-click the widget's title bar for the widget menu. For a Browser widget it includes: - **Pin to Apps**: the same as the **pin to apps** chip. It is not shown once the widget belongs to a connected app. - **Reload**: loads the page again. - **Open full screen**: opens the page in the full-screen browser. - **Change URL…**: opens the address form. - **Open in browser**: opens the page in your computer's own web browser. - **Copy URL**: copies the page's address. The rest of the menu is the same on every widget. See [Right-click menus](https://plexiidesk.com/help/right-click-menus). ## AI AI can work out which site you mean and open it for you. It uses what the desk is about, its name, notes and other widgets, and anything you tell it. 1. On an empty Browser widget, click **Set up with AI**. 2. The **Set up with AI** window drafts a suggestion straight away and shows the address under **Open this address**, with a one-line summary. 3. To steer it, type what you are after in the box at the top, for example "our team's project board", and press `Enter` or click **Redraft**. 4. Click **Set up** to open the address, or **Cancel** to leave the widget as it is. Nothing changes until you click **Set up**. AI runs on PlexiDesk AI credits when you are signed in, or on your own Anthropic key. See [AI credits and where your AI runs](https://plexiidesk.com/help). The AI button on the widget's title bar opens the same window at any time. Its tooltip reads **Find with AI** on an empty widget and **Change with AI** once the widget has a page. See [Use a widget's AI button](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-ai). ## Extensions Browser extensions you add in **Settings > Advanced > Browser extensions** also run in Browser widgets, including widgets that belong to a connected app. See [Add Chrome extensions to Plexii's browser](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## When you share a desk A Browser widget on a shared desk never shows your signed-in view of a site. What people see depends on how you share: - **A live view of the desk** shows the widget as the page's address, which visitors can open themselves. See [Publish a live view of a desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/share-live-web-view). - **A desk someone opens in their web browser** shows the site's name with an **Open** link at the top of the widget, and the site itself inside it. Some sites do not allow themselves to be shown inside another page; for those, the area stays blank and **Open** takes the visitor to the site. See [Share a desk anyone can use](https://plexiidesk.com/help/share-public-desk-link). ## Good uses - Keep the dashboard or admin page for a project on that project's desk. - Put a reference page, such as a style guide or a price list, beside the document you are writing. - Check how your own website looks on a phone with the **Mobile** size, next to the notes you are making about it. - Pin a site you use every day with **pin to apps**, then drag it onto any desk that needs it, already signed in. ## Common questions ### Why does scrolling move the desk instead of the page? The widget is not active yet. Click the page once, then scroll. ### Will the widget remember where I was? Yes. Each time the page changes, the widget saves the address, so it reopens on that page next time. ### Can I have more than one Browser widget on a desk? Yes. Add as many as you need. Plain Browser widgets share the same sign-ins, so signing in to a site in one signs you in to it in the others. ### The page is too wide or too narrow Choose a size from **Resize to a stored resolution**, or drag the widget's edges to any size you like. ## Related tasks - [Keep a site signed in on your desks](https://plexiidesk.com/help/browser-stay-signed-in) - [Browse the web inside PlexiDesk](https://plexiidesk.com/help) - [Add Chrome extensions to Plexii's browser](https://plexiidesk.com/help) - [Add widgets with a single key](https://plexiidesk.com/help/quick-add-keys) - [Web & apps widgets](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widgets-web-and-apps) - More about this widget