Visual Studio Code - Unable to launch Browser: "Unable to find an installation of the browser on your system."

Question

An issue just recently developped while running scripts (any of my scripts in python, javascript,html...) within VS code. A popup comes up saying: Visual Studio Code - 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.

My browser is edge. When I open launch.json I see that it seems to be attempting to use chrome instead which I do not have downloaded on my computer.

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "pwa-chrome",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Chrome against localhost",
            "url": "http://localhost:8080",
            "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}"
        }
    ]
}

Can I change the configurations to match the browser I am running on my computer? Or is there something else I can Do to fix this problem?

Thanks!

Eada

Answer 1

Yes, you need to change the configurations to launch Edge for debugging. You can refer to this doc. You need to change type to pwa-msedge:

"type": "pwa-msedge",

Tamikotamil

Ah thank you, that's exactly the document I was looking for. – Eada

Answer 2

If you use Chrome, Add runtimeExecutable key value pair in the object inside configurations in launch.json

"configurations": [
            {
                "type": "chrome",
                "request": "launch",
                "name": "Launch Chrome against localhost",
                "url": "http://localhost:3000",
                "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
                "runtimeExecutable": "/path/to/chrome/executable"

            }
        ]

Miniature

Using this method, I can get it to work with opera. Thanks heaps!! – Newell

Answer 3

I didn't have one of the browsers specified in

.vscode/launch.json

I hade two solutions availble to me:

1. Changing the order (have an installed browser as first choice in the file)
2. Install the missing browser

Photography

Answer 4

This just happened to me after installing Ruby-LSP extension. Disabling the culprit extension helped.

Antivenin

Answer 5

You can just choose on the top to Chrome then it works

Looby

Answer 6

It can also work if you change "type":"Edge" to "type":"node"

At launch, I had Yandex, and in the launch file. There were only 2 json configurations, for Edge and Chrome.

In any of these configurations, replace type.

Tove

Please edit your answer to rewrite it in English. – Cytogenetics