Bug: Get the currently selected browser tab

Description of the bug

As a user, I'd like to have a simple way to get the current browser tab (content) into my LLM Chat.

Expected workflow:

• take_snapshot (description says ...of the currently selected page...)

Actually needed workflow:

• list_pages
• select_page (manually pick the one that is already open in browser)
• take_snapshot

Why doesn't the expected workflow work?
The 'list_pages' tool shows 'selected', but it is not in sync with the actual browser initiall (on startup) and can easily get out-of-sync (when user manually changes tabs). So it often returns content from the wrong page.

Use cases:

• user reads a relevant docs page (already open)
• user inspects a failed pipeline run after he got a mail and clicked it (already open)
• user wants to share information behind a paywall (open and logged in)
• ...

Note: This is about the scenario where chrome-dev-tools is connected via --auto-connect to an already running browser instance, as described in https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration.

Reproduction

1. Open Chrome, open at least two tabs with two different websites.
2. Open VSCode
3. As to "take a snapshot and summarize the page"

Expectation

• take_snapshot should return the page the user is currently looking at, not a different one
• list_pages should show 'selected' tag on the page that is currently open in the browser (e.g. last focused, last visited, or similar)

MCP configuration

{
	"inputs": [],
	"servers": {
		"chrome-devtools": {
			"type": "stdio",
			"command": "npx",
			"args": [
				"chrome-devtools-mcp@latest",
				"--autoConnect"
			],
			"gallery": "https://api.mcp.github.com",
			"version": "0.17.0"
		}
	}
}

Chrome DevTools MCP version

0.17.0

Chrome version

144.0.7559.133 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)

Coding agent version

VSCode 1.109.0 + Github Copilot Chat 0.37.2

Model version

GPT-4.1

Chat log

No response

Node version

v24.12.0

Operating system

Windows

Extra checklist

• I want to provide a PR to fix this bug

Start by tracing the list_pages, select_page, and take_snapshot entry points used with --autoConnect. Reproduce the mismatch with two open tabs and compare the reported selected page with the browser's currently focused tab. Done means take_snapshot uses the user's current tab and list_pages marks that page as selected.