Right click launch edge from taskbar not loading default user profile

[nicholaswong31415]

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Extension version: 2.1.5

Describe the bug:

After installing the extension and successfully executing the "Launch Edge and attach DevTools" launch configuration generated by the extension in my project, opening Microsoft Edge via right-clicking on the taskbar icon and selecting "New window" or "New inPrivate window" opens the browser profile created by the extension, instead of my default user browser profile.

Repro steps:

• Open any folder inside Visual Studio Code (can even be an empty folder)
• Go to the Microsoft Edge Tools tab and click "Generate launch.json"
• Go to the run and debug tab and run the "Launch Edge and attach DevTools" configuration (i.e. not the headless version, so that it opens up the actual Microsoft Edge browser)
• Exit out of the debug task and close Visual Studio Code
• If Microsoft Edge is pinned to the taskbar, right click the taskbar Microsoft Edge icon and select "New window" to open a new Edge browser instance
  • If you don't have it pinned to the taskbar, searching for edge in the windows menu and selecting the "New window" option from there also works

Expected behavior:
The default user profile that is normally used when opening Microsoft Edge should be loaded.

Additional context:
To get my user profile path I enter "edge://version/" into the search url of Microsoft Edge, and for my default profile the path is something like "C:\Users\foo\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default"

However when I launch the browser via the method I described above, the profile path shown in the "edge://version/" page is instead something like "c:\Users\foo\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\workspaceStorage\dd5084dfa1c8ebf459345d31c6af6a03\ms-vscode.js-debug.profile\Profile 1"

This behaviour persists upon restarting as well, I have tried the following things with no luck:

• Repairing/reinstalling Microsoft Edge
• Uninstalling Visual Studio Code entirely

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AB#51737617

[captainbrosset]

Thank you for reaching out and providing these details. Let me make sure this is seen and prioritized by our team.

[captainbrosset]

Our dev team tried the reproduce the steps but things worked as expected. We were not able to repro the issue you are experiencing.

It might be that you've used a browser session that VSCode had opened for web browsing and you might have unadvertedly updated your shortcut.

If there is a bug somewhere in there, it would need to be tracked under the main VS Code repository as we rely on the mechanism they provide to launch Edge.

So, I'm closing this issue for now.

[nicholaswong31415]

Ok thanks for the update!