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Cannot use browser debugging

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. First reproduce Run and Debug with Visual Studio Code and Google Chrome installed as Flatpaks on Fedora 42 KDE, then determine where the Flatpak browser lookup fails; done means browser debugging launches successfully or the issue is narrowed to a documented compatibility limitation.

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Description

Good day,

When I try to use the "Run and Debug" feature, I get an error:
Unable to launch browser: "Unable to find an installation of the browser on your system. Try installing it, or providing an absolute path to the browser in the "runtimeExecutable" in your launch.json."

This error is achieved by using Google Chrome browser (I did not try others).

Both Visual Studio Code and Google Chrome are installed as Flatpaks.

I use Fedora 42, KDE.

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