Installing the extension on existing Chrome window?

[artt]

I'm writing a tab manager extension (b/c I found myself with too many tabs all the time). I'm currently using Vite + React. I had to build and manually reload the extension every time I wanted to test it before I learned about WXT.

But I soon found out that WXT opens up an new instance of a browser. I'm wondering if there's a way to get WXT to run the extension on existing windows, since that's where my tabs are, and I need lots of tabs (from actual usage) to test my extension. Having looked at this answer, I assume the answer is no... but asking just in case. Or if there's a better way than what I'm doing now.

Thanks!

[aklinker1]

Yeah, answer is no. web-ext doesn't support that. Loading it manually into your main profile once should work the same as if you opened a browser though.

[artt]

Ah. This is great! So you can just load unpacked once (from [rootdir]/.output/chrome-mv3) and everything works. Thanks!