diff --git a/packages/rum/src/boot/startRecording.ts b/packages/rum/src/boot/startRecording.ts
index 14d8507743..64782b1389 100644
--- a/packages/rum/src/boot/startRecording.ts
+++ b/packages/rum/src/boot/startRecording.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 import type { RawError, HttpRequest, DeflateEncoder } from '@datadog/browser-core'
-import { timeStampNow, createHttpRequest, addTelemetryDebug, canUseEventBridge, noop } from '@datadog/browser-core'
+import {
+  timeStampNow,
+  createHttpRequest,
+  addTelemetryDebug,
+  canUseEventBridge,
+  noop,
+  sendToExtension,
+} from '@datadog/browser-core'
 import type {
   LifeCycle,
   ViewContexts,
@@ -48,19 +55,34 @@ export function startRecording(
     ;({ addRecord } = startRecordBridge(viewContexts))
   }
 
+  const addRecordAndSendToExtension = (record: BrowserRecord) => {
+    addRecord(record)
+    sendToExtension('record', {
+      record,
+      segment: {
+        start: Infinity,
+        end: -Infinity,
+        creation_reason: 'init',
+        records_count: 0,
+        has_full_snapshot: false,
+        source: 'browser' as const,
+      },
+    })
+  }
+
   const {
     stop: stopRecording,
     takeSubsequentFullSnapshot,
     flushMutations,
   } = record({
-    emit: addRecord,
+    emit: addRecordAndSendToExtension,
     configuration,
     lifeCycle,
   })
 
   const { unsubscribe: unsubscribeViewEnded } = lifeCycle.subscribe(LifeCycleEventType.VIEW_ENDED, () => {
     flushMutations()
-    addRecord({
+    addRecordAndSendToExtension({
       timestamp: timeStampNow(),
       type: RecordType.ViewEnd,
     })
diff --git a/packages/rum/src/domain/segmentCollection/segment.ts b/packages/rum/src/domain/segmentCollection/segment.ts
index 395bb3b432..af6f309515 100644
--- a/packages/rum/src/domain/segmentCollection/segment.ts
+++ b/packages/rum/src/domain/segmentCollection/segment.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { Encoder, EncoderResult } from '@datadog/browser-core'
-import { assign, sendToExtension } from '@datadog/browser-core'
+import { assign } from '@datadog/browser-core'
 import type { BrowserRecord, BrowserSegmentMetadata, CreationReason, SegmentContext } from '../../types'
 import { RecordType } from '../../types'
 import * as replayStats from '../replayStats'
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ export class Segment {
     this.metadata.records_count += 1
     this.metadata.has_full_snapshot ||= record.type === RecordType.FullSnapshot
 
-    sendToExtension('record', { record, segment: this.metadata })
     replayStats.addRecord(this.metadata.view.id)
 
     const prefix = this.encoder.isEmpty ? '{"records":[' : ','