Microsoft/vscode

Process explorer: update name for service worker process

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#137,427 opened on Nov 18, 2021

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Description

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open any webview, ex: open an extension page
  2. Open process explorer
  3. There will now be a window process with no associated title, it can be mistaken for workbench

Inspecting the window via remote debugging, the following are the location information

"vscode-webview://extensioneditor/service-worker.js?id=bd03d4e0-fea8-4a03-8b…de-resource.vscode-webview.net&parentOrigin=vscode-file%3A%2F%2Fvscode-app"

Service workers are also spawned as renderer processes so it would be good to differentiate them in the explorer.

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Research direction
Investigate the process explorer code in VS Code to understand how process names are set. Locate where renderer processes are labeled and add a check for service worker processes to update their display name.
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typescriptnodejselectron
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developer experiencetooling
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3
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