diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c29d9b9..8c74ad1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   - Icons: official Playwright SVG (Microsoft catalog), sized 48/96.
   - Tested E2E reproducing skald's path (`npm install --omit=dev` + `node index.js`): `initialize`, `tools/list` (24 tools), real `browser_navigate` + `browser_snapshot` on https://example.com ✅, verify probe ok ✅
 
+### Fixed
+
+- **playwright: default browser channel `chrome` → forced `--browser chromium` (v2 / 1.0.1)** — `@playwright/mcp` 0.0.79 defaults to the `chrome` channel, i.e. *system Google Chrome*: on slim Linux hosts (no `/opt/google/chrome/chrome`) every tool call failed with `Chromium distribution 'chrome' is not found at /opt/google/chrome/chrome`. It went unnoticed in local testing because macOS borrowed the installed system Chrome, and `verify.js` (plain `chromium.launch`, no channel) probes the OSS build — not the one the server would actually launch. The wrapper now passes `--browser chromium` (the Chrome-for-Testing build downloaded by the postinstall hook, same as the official Docker image). Confirmed via the browser session registry: `channel: chrome-for-testing` after the fix vs `chrome` before.
+
 ## 2026-08-10
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/connectors/connectors.json b/connectors/connectors.json
index f8ae69e..852f5a7 100644
--- a/connectors/connectors.json
+++ b/connectors/connectors.json
@@ -1270,8 +1270,8 @@
         "type": "none"
       },
       "folder": "playwright",
-      "version": 1,
-      "version_string": "1.0.0",
+      "version": 2,
+      "version_string": "1.0.1",
       "version_release_date": "2026-08-19",
       "tools": [
         {
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@
       "files": [
         {
           "path": "connector.json",
-          "sha256": "aa9e6ac53b7c7abaa595ce99fcf903e0fffffb28f385c4d9d5107d16be4c8978",
+          "sha256": "9ebfaacc83fe8db6ddb115e7541f10cea9d146a4e65c55aae5cee3a39824ce7f",
           "size": 4031
         },
         {
@@ -1389,8 +1389,8 @@
         },
         {
           "path": "index.js",
-          "sha256": "7bbdee60a27013fa3b4b139d90b83f3c72c25520693e76c6e8860d7085446dc8",
-          "size": 1537
+          "sha256": "16235e1124850536ce6435d6c13d1234893699901b6f9128b36c9937ff98f7f2",
+          "size": 1719
         },
         {
           "path": "package.json",
diff --git a/connectors/playwright/connector.json b/connectors/playwright/connector.json
index 72304ef..f8ff654 100644
--- a/connectors/playwright/connector.json
+++ b/connectors/playwright/connector.json
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
     "web",
     "scraping"
   ],
-  "version": 1,
-  "version_string": "1.0.0",
+  "version": 2,
+  "version_string": "1.0.1",
   "version_release_date": "2026-08-19",
   "tools": [
     {
diff --git a/connectors/playwright/fragment.json b/connectors/playwright/fragment.json
index 84a285e..aaf555a 100644
--- a/connectors/playwright/fragment.json
+++ b/connectors/playwright/fragment.json
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
     "type": "none"
   },
   "folder": "playwright",
-  "version": 1,
-  "version_string": "1.0.0",
+  "version": 2,
+  "version_string": "1.0.1",
   "version_release_date": "2026-08-19",
   "tools": [
     {
diff --git a/connectors/playwright/index.js b/connectors/playwright/index.js
index 873a67b..e73020f 100644
--- a/connectors/playwright/index.js
+++ b/connectors/playwright/index.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const packageDir = dirname(require.resolve("@playwright/mcp/package.json"));
 process.argv = [
   process.argv[0],
   "playwright-mcp",
+  "--browser", "chromium", // default is the "chrome" channel (system Google Chrome), which is not installed on slim hosts; use the Chromium build downloaded by the postinstall hook
   "--headless", // no display in the container/host session
   "--isolated", // in-memory profile: no shared cookies/login state on disk
   "--no-sandbox", // Chromium sandbox cannot run inside containers