To get around SharePoint’s limitation on URL protocols/prefixes, one of our developers were kind enough to host a http: redirect that, using JavaScript, would immediately redirect to our custom protocol. * IE9 doesn’t recognize a lot of JavaScript. * SharePoint 2010 not supporting non-standard URL protocols. In our scenario, we had two major challenges to overcome: In November they removed more of the functionality that made this work, for reasons I can’t quite understand! Please be aware that you’re now doing something unsupported by Google. This means potentially, they may ‘break this/remove this/anything could happen’ in the future. This issue has been marked as ‘ Wont fix’ by the Chromium team. That’s it, now you can use a URL link such as “ChromeHTML:// ” on your intranet page to launch the website of your choice in Chrome browser. Once this key exists, the prompt will no longer show for that particular protocol.
#GOOGLE CHROME UPDATE 2018 JUNE HOW TO#
Snapcomms have an article on how to do it with their product, but the same rules apply for Google Chrome, as long as you use the right key: The next issue you will notice, is that Internet Explorer will most likely prompt when launching the URL, asking ‘Do you want to allow this website to open a program on your computer?’ – there is a tickbox you can remove to ‘Always ask before opening this type of address’ but this can also be suppressed via the registry. Once this is done, the ChromeHTML protocol can be used with a URL, as long as it’s in this format:
There is a workaround though, that can easily be done via group policy to change a local registry setting.Īs this user mentions, a quote needs to be taken out of the following registry key, so it looks like this: Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\" - %1" Chrome will open, but no URL is passed over.Ī user has logged this bug with Google several months ago, it hasn’t been fixed. This means you should be able to call Chrome with “ChromeHTML:” and insert the URL you want after it to open – except it doesn’t work. Luckily for Chrome, this is already done for you, using ChromeHTML. Some apps automatically create their own protocol, but you can also create your own through registry entries. Type that into your browser and it will either launch a new email from your default mail client, or ask you to set a default mail client. You may have something like ‘MAILTO’ which is used in the format “Mailto:”.
#GOOGLE CHROME UPDATE 2018 JUNE WINDOWS#
Any program can be launched using a protocol (you can see which ones you already have in Windows under Control Panel > Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a program > Scroll past all the extensions down to the protocols. “URL Files Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\Chrome.exe\” - %1″ Windows Registry Editor Version HTML Document” Here’s the registry settings you can copy and paste into a. Create this key to remove the prompt on opening the link: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” - %1ģ. Use a space in the URL after the // you’re using for your link:Ĥ. Thanks to Chris Done for working with me on this fix:ġ.Add the String Value of “URL Protocol” with a blank value to:
Updates to Chrome seem to have broken this.
We could create a desktop shortcut using chrome.exe -url, but the site is also linked from our Intranet – how do we get the link to always launch in the preferred browser? URI Schemes are required to make this work. Most company apps either support or require Internet Explorer, so we don’t want to change the default browser – but one app works better in Chrome. We want to open a particular URL in Google Chrome, but the default browser is Internet Explorer.
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