Chrome extension tabs remain locked by a stale session and DOM operations always time out

What version of Codex CLI is running?

0.144.6

What subscription do you have?

plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 — macOS 26.5.1 (25F80)

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Apple Terminal 470.2; Codex desktop app with ChatGPT Chrome Extension

Codex doctor report

What issue are you seeing?

The ChatGPT Chrome Extension can discover tabs and create a new tab. Navigation to an authenticated HTTPS admin page succeeds, but all subsequent browser-control operations time out:

• Claiming an existing tab reports that it is already controlled by a stale browser session.
• domSnapshot(), evaluate(), get_visible_dom(), and screenshot() all time out.
• Creating a fresh tab and navigating succeeds, but DOM access still times out.
• Restarting the Codex conversation and running /feedback did not release the stale session.
• Browser-client logs also show repeated timeouts connecting to ab.chatgpt.com.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019f82de-759f-74d1-8225-28bee87d0c46

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

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