Selection of browser target binary and profile

[schenktobi]

In the sourcecode for this package there is a mention, that we can pass a web-ext config to change for example the chromium or firefox binary, which will be used to install and run the extension in (https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/blob/666886f40a967b515d43cf38fc9aec67ad744d89/src/program.js#L559).

However after changing these Variables around and trying to get to load google-chrome with a specific profile by settings the binary of Google Chrome and the path to the profile on my mac book, when running vite dev the browser instance started still is another chromium instance with no profile used. Instead of my usual Chrome profiles being present there is only a default profile.

With that profile it's hard to test the extension because of missing logins etc.

I also logged the web-ext config in the sourcecode of this package and it seems to correctly set that, so I am really confused on how I can customize the browser launching behaviours

[schenktobi]

The solution was that despite the blob saying the flag is chromium-binary you need to use chromiumBinary in order to set a specific binary. I simply set a profile name and createProfileIfMissing to then keep the changes inside that profile like logins etc

[aklinker1]

For future reference, this is well documented:

https://vite-plugin-web-extension.aklinker1.io/guide/configure-browser-startup.html#available-options

[schenktobi]

well damn, thank you for answering so quick. I totally messed up my 10 cmd+f attemps then. I seem to be blind and oversaw that page. Maybe it helps someone else in the future. If you don't thinks so you can ofc delete the Discussion.

[relax-code-relax-life]

I encountered the same problem. And it is not working correctly.
I aspire to open the Chrome instance exactly as the user did, and it can even be opened by the current Chrome session.

So what should I do next? I'm looking forward to someone's help and thank you very much!

The following is my configuration:

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    webExtension({
      manifest: generateManifest,
      watchFilePaths: ["package.json", "manifest.json"],
      webExtConfig: {
        chromiumBinary: "/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome",
        args: [
            "--user-data-dir=~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default",
            '--profile-directory=~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome'
        ],
      }
    }),
  ],
});