Add Protocol Handler to Settings

TheBestPessimist

Bumping this request with my own story: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/63007/add-support-for-protocol-handler

Rhino_Cracker

@burnout426 said in Add Protocol Handler to Settings:

You have to add the following JSON to the root object in Vivaldi's preferences file.

custom_handlers: {
   "enabled" : true,
   "ignored_protocol_handlers" : [],
   "registered_protocol_handlers" : [
      {
         "default" : true,
         "protocol" : "mailto",
         "url" : "https://mail.vivaldi.net/webmail/?_task=mail&_action=compose&_to=%s"
      }
   ]
}

How do I do this properly on current vivaldi-versions?
The file "C:\Users<me>\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\Preferences" seems to be HEAVILY unformatted. Is that even the file you are talking about? Is there a way to do it "pretty" in Vivaldi??
I could run Notepad++ PrettyPrint over it, but I'm afraid to break stuff so that it breaks other stuff...

A small outtake to demonstrate its beauty:

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showing 5 of 22*60=13200 lines of pure beauty

Pesala

@Rhino_Cracker Apparently you need a JSON Editor.

@Pathduck said in Vivaldi asking confirmation to open uTorrent for magnet links:

Yeah, not sure if that would work. JSON is tricky and a small mistake would just mean the browser won't even start.
First of all it's a "minified" JSON so really hard to edit safely without a proper editor. I'd recommend you use this one: http://tomeko.net/software/JSONedit/
The "protocol_handler" is its own entry below the root, and you might have to add it yourself if not already there...
EDIT: If it's not clear from the lack of quotes around them - the values need to be boolean, not strings. Just found this out the hard way

burnout426

@Pesala Yeah, JSONedit in tree mode is what I like to use.

DoctorG

@madonnaragu This is highly experimental and not for unexpreienced users.
The code has to be added in file Preferences of Vivaldi Default profile folder.

pafflick

We're looking into implementing this feature. It's now in our pipeline. When there's progress, we will update this thread.