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Need a deprecated action: Attach to a running browser

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Posted on by CU23010306-0
Building a workflow - using PAD (MSI) to connect my Excel VBA project to data sources. I need repeated access to a browser in the workflow. Unfortunately, Microsoft deprecated the ideal action: Attach to a running browser. The action still works across all platforms, and you can modify and deploy it successfully. You just can't create the action anymore - the editor removed it. So If someone happens to have a workflow with that action (it could be in any workflow from about 2024 or earlier), I would love to get a copy - not of the entire workflow, just a workflow with a single action (with any parameters, even dummy parameters). Then I could copy it into my code and use it. 
Would appreciate any help here! Thanks much.
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    eetuRobo 4,484 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    All of the Launch new browser -actions have Launch mode where you can set it to "Attach to running instance" which attaches it to an open browser window.


    So then you can set it to attach by title, url or foreground window.



    I don't remember there being such action ever called "Attach to a running browser" and I have been working with PAD from end of 2022. Maybe if you asked help for AI it might have given bad instructions and/or hallucinated.

    If you want you can download very old PAD version here and check if you can find such an action: https://github.com/mbrg/power-automate-desktop-archive/releases

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