No obvious way to launch Edge as debug browser for terminal link handling in WSL

[amweiss]

Describe the bug
When using the Debug Terminal with VSCode in WSL remote mode, there was no obvious way to switch the browser option to Edge. I was able to make it work by using the following config:

    "debug.javascript.defaultRuntimeExecutable": {
        "pwa-chrome": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe",
    },

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. In Windows, set Edge as your default browser
2. Run VSCode in WSL mode
3. Start a webserver
4. Ctrl+click the advertised hostname
5. See Chrome launches

VS Code Version: v2024.5.217

[connor4312]

Can you please let me know the value of this registry key?

We will use Edge automatically if it's set as the platform default browser, but it seems like the detection is not working in your case.

[amweiss]

Here's the output of that command:

reg QUERY HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http\UserChoice /v ProgId

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http\UserChoice
    ProgId    REG_SZ    MSEdgeHTM

[amweiss]

@connor4312 sorry for the tag, but I didn't want to start a new issue just to ask so I wanted to make sure it was seen on a closed issue.

Any chance of getting a release of vscode-js-debug-companion to make this work? I didn't see a nightly like the vscode-js-debug extension so I can't verify this or benefit from it yet.