Unfortunately, we're not able to implement this. :-(
The problem is the additional script, that is added to the page and that does highlighting and other work. Most probably the pause action will suspend execution of this NetBeans script rather than the user code. The NetBeans script is active on mouse movement.
I've tried two approaches to solve this and neither works.
1) Debugger.pause does not accept an contextId, but I've tried to check
whether running NetBeans script in an isolated context would help.
The execution context creates an isolated world to separate application
execution and NetBeans' script execution. It can be created via
listing the scripts in "content_scripts" section of manifest file as
described at https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest.html
But even if NetBeans scripts can be adapted to work in the separate
execution context, the pause action is really global, it suspends
the NetBeans scripts again.
If we execute code in a separate non-page execution context via
Runtime.evaluate, it blocks when pause was requested.
to find out that the NetBeans script got suspended. We can do resume
and request the pause again. But the problem is, that a lot of code
can be executed in between. When a user code is executed right after
the NetBeans script, several thousands of iterations are processed till
the code is paused. Common user code will be processed before pause has
effect. Pause must be called after resume, calling pause before resume
has no effect. It's not possible to use stepping, since different
scripts are processed and it's not possible to step from one to another.
There are, obviously, no calls between NetBeans script and user script.
What about 'creating' sth like virtual breakpoints either on everys script line in the user code or at least on every block statement, like begin of methods, loops....
These 'virtual' breakpoints would not be shown to the user, but will be created by netbeans before continueing the debugger and 'removed' after that.
Instead of letting the user do all the breakpoint setting a.s.o