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Instant crash when accessing navigator.getUserMedia

See original GitHub issue

Attempting to access the camera or microphone either through code or the console will result in the chrome instance crashing

VS Code Version: 1.43.0
Chrome Version 80
Log file (set "trace": true in launch config):

Steps to reproduce:

Start a Chrome instance using VS Code Chrome Debug
Open console and paste in this line: navigator.getUserMedia({video:true},devices=>{console.log(‘hello’)},err=>{console.log(err)})
Allow access to the camera
Chrome will crash without a trace

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:31 (12 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

connor4312commented, Jun 10, 2020

We’re still waiting on work from the Chromium team for this

2reactions

isometriqcommented, Jan 5, 2021

I was able by allowing vscode permissions for camera and microphone, but I had to create these entitled permissions in first place.

Have a look at this: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/95062#issuecomment-751241372

Now all works for me when started directly from vscode!

MacOS Catalina (10.15.7)

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