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Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode

Research direction

Start by reproducing the debugger launch with both profileDir and profile-name settings, then inspect the console output around the Firefox profile error and ECONNREFUSED connection. Done means the launch configuration connects successfully and the debugging session remains active.

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Description

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when trying to launch the debugger, after a while I get the message Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible. and then the message Error launching configuration \n connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:6000

I first tried to specify the profile directory via profileDir but got the same message. Then I try to specify the name of the profile but I get this message in the console

Debugging session ended unexpectedly
Debugging ended

Could you help me how to solve this behavior?

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