Microsoft Edge extensions are removed?
Hi,
does anyone here in the community also have a problem with the profiles in Microsoft Edge?
Since the end of October I have the problem that when I debug my React app from WebStorm with Microsoft Edge - that the extensions in my main profile are deleted.
If I use a JS Debug run configuration and Edge as browser I get a user data directory under "%localappdata%/jetbrains/webstorm[version]" which is correct, because I don't want to debug with the skin profile-
However, when I stop debugging, close the debug instance of the browser and then open the normal Edge browser - with my main profile - all extensions are deleted.
I'm unfortunately not clear if this is a Microsoft Edge issue or if it's somehow caused by WebStorm, so I'm curious if anyone here has had the same experience?
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We are not aware of such issues, nothing similar had ever been reported. All the IDE does is starting Edge with
--remote-debugging-port=<port> --user-data-dir="~\AppData\Local\JetBrains\WebStorm<version>\chrome-user-data-<port>" --no-first-run --disable-fre --no-default-browser-check
I'm not sure why the existing extensions in a different user directory can be removed after doing this. Could you check Windows events logs to find due to which process or program it was removed?
I enabled auditing for the specific folder.
The extensions do get deleted by msedge.exe.
Strange tho why this always happens after closing the instance started from within the IDE
I can confirm that this is indeed a Microsoft Edge problem and has nothing to do with the Jetbrains IDEs, this behaviour can be replicated with VSCode too!
Thank you!
Thanks for investigations!