How do I get Visual Studio Code to trust our self-signed proxy certificate?

Question

Our corporate firewall/proxy is keeping VS Code from being able to install extensions because Code doesn\'t trust something in the chain. It doesn\'t reliably give an error,

Answer 1

There is actually a better way:

Since VS Code is built on Chromium the "proxy settings should be picked up automatically" from Google Chrome/Chromium. So if you add your self-signed certificate in Chrome/Chromium by going to:

1. chrome://settings/privacy
2. Manage certificates
3. Authorities / Import
4. Select and import your certificate (pem-file)
5. Restart VS Code

I was able to download VS Code extensions despite being behind a corporate proxy.

Remark: Ubuntu 18.04 and VS Code works only with Chrome and not Chromium.