Restore Protocol Handler Permission Lost In Chrome 77

Pathduck

@ldexterldesign Unfortunately, not that I know of at the moment...

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As I'm sure you already know, Vivaldi is based on Chromium, and the Chromium developers (basically Google employees) believe users are idiots who should be protected from themselves. So they've dumbed the browser down so that even technophobes and luddites can use it without getting into problems by changing a setting, and pop up warnings for everything considered a "security risk". Now they're also going to block "insecure" downloads - because, well, apparently us users are completely unable to think for ourselves and just look where a link points to before clicking it...
</rantmode>

Fortunately however, Vivaldi takes a different approach, and even if built on Chromium, they are constantly working to allow users as much control as possible. But it's a lot of work digging the features people want out of the Chromium codebase and re-implementing it in the Vivaldi settings. I'm sure we'll get more powerful features to control how Vivaldi deals with different protocols over time. Might take a couple of years though

ldexterldesign

Hi @pathduck,

Thanks for quick reply

Glad I'm not the only one suffering this

Cheers

PS looking to fix magnets in qbittorrent web ui (macos/docker) in case anyone else has this issue

ldexterldesign

Hi admins,

Is this function, which Chromium has screwed up, on the roadmap to reimplement?:

If yes then I'd invite you to prioritise it as, I presume, will most bittorrent users
If no then what's the best next step from me (if any)

FYI I tested in Firefox and managing protocol handling seems completely logical there

Yours hopefully

ldexterldesign

Hi @anachostic @pathduck,

What does your JSON solution actually do - bypass/skip this modal dialog/prompt or something else because, unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be working for me

I'm on macOS - what OS' are you both running?

Yours hopefully

Pathduck

@ldexterldesign Adding the protocol in the JSON just bypasses the dialog, and then hands it over to the OS to deal with. So it needs to be registered in the OS. No idea how it's done on Mac, you'd need to do some research

I'm on Win10 and applications can register to be protocol handlers.

Yeah, Firefox's is definitely the correct way to implement this... give users back control!

aaprigorodov

In my expirience after adding some excluded schemes into the "protocol_handler" node of the JSON it immediately updated to empty object.

Is there a workaround for this?

win33

I've just switched to Vivaldi and love it's speed and customizability and want to continue using it. I know Chrome has the same problem but I found a regedit file online that you run and it solves it. Would it be possible for one of you guys to do that for Vivaldi? If not then I will try the posts as above. I'm very computer savvy but could do with guidance when it comes to JSON
Thanks

Pathduck

@win33 Welcome to the Vivaldi Community!

What is the regedit file? Would you post it here in a code block ?

When it comes to JSON, I recommend using a UI tool like JSONedit to edit such files:
http://tomeko.net/software/JSONedit/
Also make sure you do the edits with the browser closed (should be obvious, but still...)

win33

@Pathduck said in Restore Protocol Handler Permission Lost In Chrome 77:

code block

this is whats in the regedit file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLWhitelist]
"1"="magnet:*"

LonM

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