Connections fail ~50% of the time
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From Telemetry, we see that only about 53% of Valence connections (the only OTHER type today) succeed currently.
I am guessing a lot of this stems from options that are set up to fail, like Chrome, which has to be started separately first. We should try to help the user more in these cases.
Bug 1159043 may provide more connection insight if I can get it to stick.
Does it also count attempts by WebIDE to connect to the previous runtime on open? I often get that failure with Chrome, even when I'm opening WebIDE to connect to say Safari. We should be handling that failure (on open) better.
Yes, that would count as another attempt and failure.
Overall, I think it might be nicer for the Valence to open things like Chrome if it needs them to work, especially since you have to pass special args anyway.
It would indeed be nicer, but finding the path to the chrome binary in various platforms and distros doesn't sound that easy.