diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
index 14334fddd..c09972049 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed the browser tool executable probe launching the user's installed GUI Chromium on Windows: the `--version` version probe from ecb22957 was Linux-scoped but ran for every platform candidate, so on Windows it could hand off to a running `chrome.exe`, open a normal browser window, then reject the candidate and fall back to cached Chrome for Testing. The probe is now confined to Linux ([#8445](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/8445)).
+
 ## [17.3.0] - 2026-08-13
 
 ### Breaking Changes
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/browser/launch.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/browser/launch.ts
index 63afc8e71..4c10635e1 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/browser/launch.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/browser/launch.ts
@@ -204,6 +204,15 @@ function isExecutableFile(p: string): boolean {
 
 async function isChromiumExecutable(p: string): Promise<boolean> {
 	if (!isExecutableFile(p)) return false;
+	// The version probe below launches the candidate. It exists to reject
+	// non-Chromium `chrome`/`chromium` wrapper scripts that appear on a Linux
+	// PATH (ecb22957, "validate Linux browser executables"). On Windows and
+	// macOS the candidates are fixed GUI application paths, not PATH wrappers,
+	// and executing them is harmful: a GUI `chrome.exe --version` does not print
+	// to a detached stdout and can hand off to the user's running instance,
+	// opening/activating a normal browser window (#8445). Confine the probe to
+	// Linux and trust the executable-file check elsewhere.
+	if (process.platform !== "linux") return true;
 	try {
 		const probeTimeoutMs = 3000;
 		const proc = Bun.spawn([p, "--version"], {
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/browser-launch.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/browser-launch.test.ts
index c23a834c3..c29b7f6f6 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/browser-launch.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/browser-launch.test.ts
@@ -138,6 +138,30 @@ describe("browser executable selection", () => {
 		}
 	});
 
+	it("does not launch the candidate to probe its version on Windows (#8445)", async () => {
+		const tempDir = TempDir.createSync("@browser-probe-win32-");
+		try {
+			const marker = path.join(tempDir.path(), "gui-launched");
+			const fakeChrome = path.join(tempDir.path(), "chrome.exe");
+			// A GUI chrome.exe handoff: executing it has a side effect (this marker)
+			// but prints nothing a console version probe would accept.
+			await Bun.write(fakeChrome, `#!/bin/sh\ntouch "${marker}"\necho "activating existing window"\n`);
+			fs.chmodSync(fakeChrome, 0o755);
+
+			const platformDescriptor = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "platform");
+			Object.defineProperty(process, "platform", { value: "win32", configurable: true });
+			try {
+				await expect(chromiumExecutableProbeForTest(fakeChrome)).resolves.toBe(true);
+			} finally {
+				if (platformDescriptor) Object.defineProperty(process, "platform", platformDescriptor);
+			}
+
+			expect(fs.existsSync(marker)).toBe(false);
+		} finally {
+			await tempDir.remove();
+		}
+	});
+
 	it("honors PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH before a detected Windows system Chrome", async () => {
 		const tempDir = TempDir.createSync("@browser-executable-");
 		try {