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Persist Extensions on launch

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by tracing how launch configurations create a fresh Firefox instance and handle the reAttach option; done means launch can use a regular Firefox profile with synced account state and extensions while retaining remote debugging, with the behavior covered by an appropriate test.

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Description

{
  // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
  // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
  // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Hello",
      "type": "firefox",
      "request": "launch",
      "reAttach": true,
      "url": "http://localhost:4000/",
    }
  ]
}

Under launch mode, a fresh Firefox instance is opened, one with no account synced and no extensions.
Is there an override or anything of some sort that lets "launch" launch a browser instance that's just like a regular launch with remote debugging enabled?

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