Vscode: Add a shortcut or a button to restart extension host.

[siddhant1]

Right now if the extension host crashes we have to restart the editor , it would be awesome if we could add a button or shortcut for the same.

[alexdima]

If the extension host crashes, there is a popup that contains a button to restart it. Have you seen that @siddhant1 ?

[siddhant1]

Yup , I have seen that , but sometimes u close that accidentally by removing all notifications and then I notice that my extensions are crashed! The only solution is restart the editor.

[goldingdamien]

This crashes for me a lot. I think it would be nice to have information on why it crashes and for a way to restart to be easily done. I'm assuming CPU load is the issue for me as my computer's bottleneck is the CPU.

[thesayyn]

It will be more helpful if we put a button to the status bar below that will only appear when extension host crashes.

[kokoshneta]

If the extension host crashes, there is a popup that contains a button to restart it. Have you seen that @siddhant1 ?

I’ve never seen that popup, so I’m guessing the extension host has never actually _crashed_ on me.

It very frequently (as in, at least once an hour during normal work) becomes _unresponsive_, making extensions stop working. Or at least that’s what the output tab says (“UNRESPONSIVE extension host, [extension] took XX% of XXXXms, saved PROFILE here…”).

The only way to get the extension back then is to restart the entire editor, as far as I can tell. :-/

[TryTryAgain]

I have found the command palette 'Developer: Reload Window' works well for cases where the extension host crashes and you want to reload it without fully exiting and re-opening vscode. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/42002990/805031 for more info.

[jsuddsjr]

Even better, could you please restart the extension host automatically? Reporting that it has crashed, and then waiting for me to recognize that my editor is not working because I have to click an OK button is a bad experience. Rather, only notify me if the extension host is crashing repeatedly, and then provide some context as to what was happening when it crashed. Then I could actually do something to fix it (either disable an extension or restart my editor).