As it is a proper built-in extension and uses the rendering engine already embedded inside electron it does not suffer from the problems of the current screensharing architecture. This will likely resolve every issue listed above!
Alternative
Fix vscode-browse-lite, though I do not consider this worth the effort given the limitations of it architecture.
Additional context
The only drawback will be that devtools will be a bit less nice. One has to use the electron devtools (Help > Toggle Developer Tools) which are not in a nice tab like the current ones. However, I definitely consider this drawback justified given the amount of advantages this switch would bring.
Furthermore, one can still open it in an external browser if some parts of the devtools are limiting inside VSCode.
Clear and concise description of the problem
Currently there is a plethora of bugs with the embedded browser. It...
<select>dropdown (#24),vscode://URIs (https://github.com/antfu/vscode-browse-lite/issues/19),Suggested solution
VSCode has a built-in "Simple browser" extension since a while ago: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/109276
As it is a proper built-in extension and uses the rendering engine already embedded inside electron it does not suffer from the problems of the current screensharing architecture. This will likely resolve every issue listed above!
Alternative
Fix
vscode-browse-lite, though I do not consider this worth the effort given the limitations of it architecture.Additional context
The only drawback will be that devtools will be a bit less nice. One has to use the electron devtools (Help > Toggle Developer Tools) which are not in a nice tab like the current ones. However, I definitely consider this drawback justified given the amount of advantages this switch would bring. Furthermore, one can still open it in an external browser if some parts of the devtools are limiting inside VSCode.
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