Unable to launch

[palmtrees-dreamland]

Type: Performance Issue

Unable to launch chrome browser, pop up to say to configure launch.json. Unable to complete, chrome browser does not open. Using Intel Chrome Book

VS Code version: Code 1.84.2 (1a5daa3, 2023-11-09T10:50:47.800Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.15.130-20472-g682e24dd583b
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) m3-8100Y CPU @ 1.10GHz (4 x 1607)
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 opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok video_decode: enabled video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off
Load (avg)	1, 1, 0
Memory (System)	6.46GB (5.96GB free)
Process Argv	--unity-launch --crash-reporter-id c2bce612-6921-4660-974d-70557e7894c9
Screen Reader	no
VM	100%
DESKTOP_SESSION	undefined
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	X-Generic
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	undefined
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	undefined

Process Info

CPU %	Mem MB	   PID	Process
    3	   172	   325	code main
    0	    40	   338	   zygote
    1	    99	   368	     gpu-process
    0	    40	   339	   zygote
    0	     7	   342	     zygote
    0	   185	   407	window [1] (index.html - eddiebm - Visual Studio Code)
    5	    93	   713	window [2] (Issue Reporter)
    0	    60	   376	   utility-network-service
    0	    93	   441	shared-process
    0	    73	   690	     electron-nodejs (/usr/share/code/code --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node /usr/share/code/resources/app/out/bootstrap-fork ms-vscode.pwa-chrome {"common.vscodemachineid":"348d01ac3fab56b873d81e183d9ecf7b4a4852fc9b885734094f88b699f35ba7","common.vscodesessionid":"a61cd378-1812-48a4-9f69-7d2fd40a46ee1699954709432"} 0c6ae279ed8443289764825290e4f9e2-1a736e7c-1324-4338-be46-fc2a58ae4d14-7255)
    0	     0	   724	     /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    0	     0	   725	       /usr/bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    0	    73	   442	fileWatcher [1]
    0	   132	   462	extensionHost [1]
    0	    86	   490	     electron-nodejs (/usr/share/code/code --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node /usr/share/code/resources/app/extensions/html-language-features/server/dist/node/htmlServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=462)
    0	    73	   498	     electron-nodejs (/usr/share/code/code --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node /home/eddiebm/.vscode/extensions/formulahendry.auto-rename-tag-0.1.10/packages/server/dist/serverMain.js --node-ipc --clientProcessId=462)
    0	    73	   703	     electron-nodejs (/usr/share/code/code --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node /usr/share/code/resources/app/extensions/json-language-features/server/dist/node/jsonServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=462)

Workspace Info

|  Window (index.html - eddiebm - Visual Studio Code)
|    Folder (eddiebm): 760 files
|      File types: code(122) log(43) cache-9(24) cache-7(24) json(22) png(11)
|                  md(10) vsixmanifest(6) crl(4) vscdb(3)
|      Conf files: package.json(6) launch.json(3)
|      Launch Configs: chrome;

Extensions (6)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
vscode-babel-coloring	dza	0.0.4
auto-close-tag	for	0.5.14
auto-complete-tag	for	0.1.0
auto-rename-tag	for	0.1.10
es7-react-js-snippets	rod	1.9.3
JavaScriptSnippets	xab	1.8.0

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[roblourens]

/jsDebugLogs

[connor4312]

/gifPlease

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[palmtrees-dreamland]

Hey everyone, thanx for helping out, I'm new to this. I managed to install Firefox as a linux app and now I can launch browser, although url path is static, so it always opens launches browser with rhe same file

[connor4312]

Please let us know if you can give a gif of the issue with the Chrome browser so we can look into it. Thanks!

[palmtrees-dreamland]

not sure I can replicate the issue now, although here is where I got the solution from if it helps https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72567123/cant-run-debugging-in-visual-studio-code-on-chrome-os

[connor4312]

The error referenced in the issue sounds like it was this one:

Unable to find an installation of the browser on your system. Try installing it, or providing an absolute path to the browser in the "runtimeExecutable" in your launch.json.

Which I think is descriptive of the case where you try to launch Chrome without it being installed on your system

[palmtrees-dreamland]

It is indeed, that was the error message I got, although the Chrome browser is already installed in my Chromebook. Was also reading about downloading a second chrome browser and use it for VSC. For now, Firefox seems to do the job, I just need to get the right url

[connor4312]

I don't own a Chromebook -- are you able to find the path to the chrome executable on your system? We probably need to add that to our detection in the debugger. Opening chrome://version will have the "command line" which should include its location.

[palmtrees-dreamland]

Command line:

/opt/google/chrome/chrome --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --enable-webgl-image-chromium --enable-features=Pepper3DImageChromium,UmaStorageDimensions,ArcAdbSideloading,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,SmartDim,OnDeviceSpeechRecognition --gpu-sandbox-failures-fatal=yes --gpu-sandbox-start-early --video-capture-use-gpu-memory-buffer --enable-logging --log-level=1 --use-cras --enable-wayland-server --user-data-dir=/home/chronos --disable-mojo-broker --ash-use-cros-mojo-service-manager --cros-healthd-uses-service-manager --login-profile=user --has-chromeos-keyboard --enable-touchview --form-factor=CHROMEBOOK --guest-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_large.jpg --guest-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_small.jpg --child-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/child_large.jpg --child-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/child_small.jpg --default-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/default_large.jpg --default-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/default_small.jpg --device-help-content-id=shyvana --ozone-nnpalm-properties={} --arc-availability=officially-supported --enable-arcvm --enable-houdini --enable-houdini64 --enterprise-enrollment-initial-modulus=15 --enterprise-enrollment-modulus-limit=19 --enable-crashpad --ml_service=enabled --ondevice_handwriting=use_rootfs --ondevice_document_scanner=use_rootfs --feature-management-level=0 --feature-management-max-level=1 --feature-management-scope=0 --login-manager --feature-flags=["files-trash@1"] --first-exec-after-boot --enable-features=ArcAdbSideloading,Crostini,CrostiniGpuSupport,OnDeviceSpeechRecognition,Pepper3DImageChromium,SmartDim,UmaStorageDimensions --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --origin-trial-disabled-features=WebGPU

[palmtrees-dreamland]

Executable Path: /opt/google/chrome/chrome
Profile Path: /home/chronos/u-

[connor4312]

Much appreciated, should be fixed in our next release