Edge Tools and Flatpak: "Unable to launch browser"

[Hvass-Labs]

Issue Type: Bug (?)

Versions

• Linux Kubuntu 22
• Edge browser installed as Flatpak: 103.0.1264.51
• VSCode: 1.68.1
• Edge Tools extension for VSCode: 2.1.0

Problem

After installing the extension "Microsoft Edge Tools for VS Code" it auto-generates launch.json. When I click "Launch Project" in the MS Edge Tools menu on the left of the screen, I get the following error message:

Unable to launch browser: "Unable to find Edge version *. Available auto-discovered versions are: ["dev"]. You can set the "runtimeExecutable" in your launch.json to one of these, or provide an absolute path to the browser executable."

Attempted Solution

I have tried adding the following variants to the different configs in launch.json but they all give very similar error messages to the one above.

"runtimeExecutable": "dev",
"runtimeExecutable": "flatpak run com.microsoft.Edge",
"runtimeExecutable": "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/com.microsoft.Edge",
"runtimeExecutable": "/app/extra/msedge",

Related Issues

I have searched for this problem on the internet and found various posts including https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/95939 (which has been locked), but nobody seems to address the issue of having installed Edge as a Flatpak, which I think is causing the problem.

Is this a bug in VSCode or the Edge Tools extension, and is there a way to solve it?

Thanks!

Auto-Generated Context

Extension version: 2.1.0 VS Code version: Code 1.68.1 (30d9c6cd9483b2cc586687151bcbcd635f373630, 2022-06-15T02:58:26.441Z) OS version: Linux x64 5.15.0-41-generic Restricted Mode: No

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega Graphics (8 x 1600)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: disabled_off opengl: enabled_on rasterization: disabled_software raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: disabled_software video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	0, 1, 1
Memory (System)	13.59GB (6.44GB free)
Process Argv	--extensions-dir=/home/magnus/.var/app/com.visualstudio.code/data/vscode/extensions --reuse-window --crash-reporter-id 1d6db0cd-e10b-4c99-af6e-070b1dd3098d
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	plasma
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	KDE
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	KDE
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	x11

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[codepo8]

Interesting issue, thank you for bringing it up. I hope someone in the community here can help with that. I will also try to see if someone on the Linux team can help out.

[felipehw]

@codepo8 could we have an option like "terminal.external.linuxExec": "gnome-terminal", to config the path for Edge binary?

For example, "vscode-edge-devtools.linuxExec": "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/com.microsoft.Edge", would help to solve this problem (at least from my POV) ...

[jstermask]

Hi I had the same issue today. Solved it with the following configuration :

  "runtimeExecutable": "/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.microsoft.Edge/x86_64/stable/active/files/extra/msedge",

It worked for me. It may not be the cleanest way however, so we should consider it as a workaround.

[codepo8]

Seems like a good solution, thanks.