Google's Gemini Spark Now Controls Your Real Chrome Browser to Run Web Tasks
Gemini Spark now controls your real Chrome browser to handle web tasks, and rolls out to AI Pro subscribers in 160+ countries
- Chrome integration: Gemini Spark can now control your real desktop Chrome browser -- not a remote sandbox -- using your logged-in sessions and saved passwords.
- Global rollout: Spark is now available to Google AI Pro subscribers in 160+ additional countries, down from Ultra-only access since May 2026.
- Entry price drops to $20: Previously restricted to the $249/mo AI Ultra tier, Spark is now bundled with the $20/mo Google AI Pro plan.
- Key use-cases: Scheduling apartment viewings, researching and pre-filling flight bookings, updating online orders -- any multi-step web task you'd rather not do yourself.
- Safety guardrails: Payments and social media posts require manual confirmation; Google uses multi-layer prompt injection defenses to prevent malicious websites from hijacking the agent.
- Still excluded: Users in the EEA, UK, Nigeria, and Switzerland cannot access Spark on any plan; the Chrome integration is US-only for now. Official blog
Gemini Spark, Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, can now take control of your actual Chrome browser to complete multi-step web tasks on your behalf. Google is also pushing Spark access to over 160 additional countries for AI Pro subscribers, the biggest geographic expansion since the agent launched.
From sandboxed cloud to your real browser
Until now, Gemini Spark browsed through a remote, sandboxed cloud instance with no access to your sessions, cookies, or saved credentials. The new integration runs inside desktop Chrome on your device, where your logged-in accounts and saved passwords are available. That difference determines what the agent can actually do.
With local Chrome access, Spark can handle multi-step errands like scheduling apartment viewings across listing sites or researching flights and pre-filling booking forms. For sensitive actions like payments or social media posts, Spark pauses and hands control back to you before anything irreversible happens.
How auto browse works, step by step
You trigger auto browse by describing a task when prompting Gemini in Chrome. A cloud-hosted Gemini model then drives your local browser, scrolling, clicking, and entering text on your behalf. The process looks like this:
- Gemini confirms "Task started" and opens a new tab marked with a cursor and sparkle icon. An indicator in the top-right corner of your Chrome window shows that auto browse is active.