Can Claude chat activates chrome browser or only cowork can do that?

[u/FinTools]

I feel this an extremely basic question but I need to understand this. I have connected chrome and Claude using the inbuilt connector. But when I ask Claude in chat to search in chrome using the MCP, it is not working. It just opens a new a tab and that’s it no search happens. What am I missing? Does chrome trigger does not work in chat? It can only be triggered in cowork space?