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[Feature request] Flatpak support

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

Research direction

No files or tests are named; start by tracing how the executable-path setting is parsed and launched. Reproduce the issue with Firefox installed through Flatpak and compare it with the current command -v firefox behavior. Done means the debugger can launch and attach to the Flatpak Firefox installation.

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Description

bug initialization linux

I run the flatpak version of firefox, so command -v firefox returns nothing. I tried setting the setting for the executable path to flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox but that doesn't work.

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