VSCode opens multiple tabs with the same url

[philolypse]

• Open few windows connected to the remote
• Open and run project that will automatically open browser tab with project url (like serve)
• VSCode will open as many tabs as we have windows opened in vscode

[alexr00]

project that will automatically open browser tab

@philolypse what do you expect to cause the browser tabs to open?

[philolypse]

My bad, i've provided serve js as an example and i don't see an option to automatically open link in browser there. Sorry.

Let's use xdg-open command as an example.

what do you expect to cause the browser tabs to open?

I don't really know how passing the "open link in a browser" event from remote to client process is done, but i suspect that all connected vscode instances are listening for the same thing (which is okay, they should "listen") and that is causing the problem - having multiple tabs opened (in my case) instead of just one.

Another way to test it:

• open multiple windows of vscode
• connect all of them to the same remote
• run e.g. xdg-open http://localhost in remote terminal
• the same amount of browser tabs will be opened as we have connected instances in vscode

I've tested it on:
Client: macOS 12.0.1
Remote: Ubuntu 21.10
VSCode: 1.62.3

[alexr00]

Thanks, I can reproduce this.

@Tyriar do you have any idea why this could happen? I'm seeing RemoteTerminalBackend execute _remoteCLI.openExternal.

[Tyriar]

Probably related to this one microsoft/vscode#121926

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