diff --git a/.changeset/poor-cobras-destroy.md b/.changeset/poor-cobras-destroy.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..991c7324cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/poor-cobras-destroy.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"claude-dev": minor
+---
+
+Add extension setting for chromium executable path
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7276e45b8d..898e2b9edf 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@
 					],
 					"default": "medium",
 					"description": "Controls the reasoning effort when using the o3-mini model. Higher values may result in more thorough but slower responses."
+				},
+				"cline.chromeExecutablePath": {
+					"type": "string",
+					"default": null,
+					"description": "Path to Chrome executable for browser use functionality. If not set, the extension will attempt to find or download it automatically."
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/src/services/browser/BrowserSession.ts b/src/services/browser/BrowserSession.ts
index cbc7734d36..14b6ecef8b 100644
--- a/src/services/browser/BrowserSession.ts
+++ b/src/services/browser/BrowserSession.ts
@@ -42,11 +42,14 @@ export class BrowserSession {
 			await fs.mkdir(puppeteerDir, { recursive: true })
 		}
 
-		// if chromium doesn't exist, this will download it to path.join(puppeteerDir, ".chromium-browser-snapshots")
-		// if it does exist it will return the path to existing chromium
-		const stats: PCRStats = await PCR({
-			downloadPath: puppeteerDir,
-		})
+		const chromeExecutablePath = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration("cline").get<string>("chromeExecutablePath")
+		if (chromeExecutablePath && !(await fileExistsAtPath(chromeExecutablePath)))
+			throw new Error(`Chrome executable not found at path: ${chromeExecutablePath}`)
+		const stats: PCRStats = chromeExecutablePath
+			? { puppeteer: require("puppeteer-core"), executablePath: chromeExecutablePath }
+			: // if chromium doesn't exist, this will download it to path.join(puppeteerDir, ".chromium-browser-snapshots")
+				// if it does exist it will return the path to existing chromium
+				await PCR({ downloadPath: puppeteerDir })
 
 		return stats
 	}