Cannot access local files upon revisiting page

[its-all-waves]

Tool

Hardware Simulator

Interface

Website (https://nand2tetris.github.io/web-ide)

To Reproduce

• visit /chip route
• click Settings > Select a Projects Folder
• allow "Edit File" permissions when prompted by browser
• observe that local files can be opened and edited successfully
• close tab/window
• revisit /chip route
• click OK on alert: "Please grant permissions to use your local projects folder"
  • observe console error:
    • Uncaught (in promise) NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context.
• observe that selecting any HDL from the dropdown does not load the file
  • observe console error:
    • Uncaught (in promise) NotAllowedError: Failed to execute 'getDirectoryHandle' on 'FileSystemDirectoryHandle': The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context.
• observe that even selecting from 'Builtin' files does not load the file
• observe that disabling Chromium extensions does not fix the issue
• observe that granting browser Full Disk Access (macOS Privacy & Security settings) does not fix the issue

Additional Observations

• sometimes when having this issue...
  • Settings > Select Projects Folder...
    • is disabled
    • is active, but does not show the file picker when clicked

      • on click --> console error:

        stack: "AbortError: Failed to execute 'showDirectoryPicker' on 'Window': The user aborted a request."
        code: 20
        message: "Failed to execute 'showDirectoryPicker' on 'Window': The user aborted a request."
        name: "AbortError"
        

Workaround

Start over, entirely (this works only once per visit to /chip route):

• in Arc (Chromium) dev tools, press CMD+SHIFT+P (control pallete) > Clear Site Data (including third-party cookies)
• close tab/window
• revisit /chip route
• click Settings > Select a Projects Folder
• allow "Edit File" permissions when prompted by browser
• observe that local files can be opened and edited successfully

System

macOS Ventura 13.7.2
Arc Browser 1.108.0 (66882) / Chromium Engine Version 139.0.7258.128