microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
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Description
The vscode-remote-release extension crashes the Visual Studio Code extension process:
2025-09-29 07:56:03.775 [error] [Window] navigator is now a global in nodejs, please see https://aka.ms/vscode-extensions/navigator for additional info on this error.: PendingMigrationError: navigator is now a global in nodejs, please see https://aka.ms/vscode-extensions/navigator for additional info on this error.
at get (file:///Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:391:6611)
at Object. (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:486184)
at 19534 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:504894)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 92839 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:466959)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 49424 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:465816)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 17130 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:596135)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 87631 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:576866)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 65861 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:600705)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 91577 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:856974)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 94111 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:819912)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 35187 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:690327)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 64417 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:846572)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 24847 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:828930)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 54788 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:788284)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 30729 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:682648)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 24430 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:837945)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 52584 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:811300)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 69480 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:800490)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at 71535 (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:680397)
at r (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1108387)
at /Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1109251
at /Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1117584
at Object. (/Users/doenges/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.120.0/out/extension.js:2:1117690)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1696:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1829:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1430:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1253:12)
at c._load (node:electron/js2c/node_init:2:17993)
at e._load (file:///Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:391:5984)
at t._load (file:///Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:209:22649)
at r._load (file:///Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:201:25551)
at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:242:24)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1452:12)
at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16)
at aJ.Cb (file:///Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:240:1253)
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the crash in the vscode-remote-release extension and inspect the generated out/extension.js stack trace, especially the navigator reference. Done means the extension host no longer crashes when the extension loads under the affected VS Code version.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, vscode
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100