🤯 Solved: How to enable the Cypress Chrome Extension in the Cypress Dashboard

We all have those days.

We’re working on a project, reading the documentation, staring at the errors, and thinking, “What am I doing wrong???”

Today was one of those days for me.

I’ve been diving into the Cypress Puppeteer plugin and what seemed to be working for others, as far as I could tell, was not working for me. I’d been staring at an error for far too long. I read too fast and I’m REALLY bad about not asking for help. I knew I was close. I just needed to find the next step.

And, I did. I found it buried in a comment on Stack Overflow. So, here you go.

If you are setting up the Cypress/Puppeteer plugin and you run across the following error —

Error: Cannot communicate with the Cypress Chrome extension. Ensure the extension is enabled when using the Puppeteer plugin.

— you might want to check the following…

Within the Cypress Dashboard, running one of your specs, click the + button in the browser.

Add chrome://extensions in the search field

Click the toggle button!

Close that browser tab

aaaaaand rerun your test…

Yay!!! Okay, fine, it’s still an error but it’s a new error! This means that we’ve gotten over the first hurdle of getting Puppeteer up and running. The rest is figure-outable.

Hopefully, this is exactly what you need. If not, let me know! I don’t know much but maybe, together, we can figure out what’s going on.

If anything, I learned something new.

I hope you did too.

Till next time…

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