You need to connect to your Chrome using DevTools protocol [1] and then enable Debugger domain and listen for Debugger.paused notification. There is no command line flag to automatically enable it, since it should be a client for Debugger.paused notification.

[1] https://github.com/cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface

Thanks sounds tricky, will try to figure it out.

alexander.d.mills@ - Thanks for filing the issue...!!

Could you please provide a sample test file to test the issue from TE-end.
This will help us in triaging the issue further.

Thanks...!!

Yeah, here is what I don't understand - there's no good way to connect to a process that hasn't started yet. If I launch Chrome and tell it to open a url, can I magically stop chrome from any further processing by connecting to it with another process (a "remove debugger"? Seems weird that we cannot launch Chrome and tell it to stop at the first breakpoint or first debugger; statement. In other words, how can we force chrome to stop at the first debugger statement, if it takes 50 - 300 milliseconds to connect to the chrome browser with another process? So confused.

I meant a *remote debugger* not *remove debugger*

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Current design is to refresh the page if you need to hit early debugger statement or a breakpoint.

Ok so I can use window.location.reload() to hit the first debugger; statement...is there a JavaScript hook in the browser I can use to capture a remote process connecting to the browser? Something like this:


window.onDebuggerConnect = function(event){
   // great! remote process has connected a debugging session
   // now we reload the page, so that firs debugger; statement can be reached

    window.location.reload();
}

No. But you can do the refresh from the debugger, e.g. pressing Ctrl+R in DevTools sends a command to the target to refresh.