How to preserve extensions in Firefox with VSCode and request Launch

发布于 2020-03-31 23:02:18

I'm attempting to debug a React app with React Dev Tools and Firefox Developer Edition. I can't install React Dev Tools to the profile Firefox is using when it is launched via VSCode. I have React Dev Tools installed when I launch Firefox myself via opening it in /Applications.

However, when I run the below launch.json profile, there are no extensions shown under Preferences -> Extensions & Themes -> Extensions in FireFox after it launches.

{
  "name": "Launch localhost",
  "type": "firefox",
  "request": "launch",
  "reAttach": true,
  "url": "http://localhost:3000",
  "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}"
},

However, I can follow the directions here and launch Firefox with the terminal and attach my debugger to it. This Profile has React Dev Tools and it works fine running:

/Applications/Firefox\ Developer\ Edition.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -start-debugger-server

launch.json:

{
  "name": "Attach",
  "type": "firefox",
  "request": "attach",
  "url": "http://localhost:3000",
  "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}"
},

But how do I make the first one work with a launch request instead of attach? From reading it seems to have something to do with the profile

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{ "name": "Firefox", "type": "firefox", "request": "launch", "reAttach": true, "url": "http://localhost:4300", "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}", "profile": "default-release-1" },

How to preserve extensions in Firefox with VSCode and request Launch

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