dmarmor/epichrome

Upgrading to version 2.4.0 no longer make apps recognized as browser in Big sur

jarvisluong opened this issue · 6 comments

jarvisluong commented

Prior to version 2.4.0, apps created by Epichrome can still be treated as browser and can open URLs from other apps.

deafgreatdane commented

I'm on Catalina and have the same problem. I use Browser Fairy map urls to the epichrome apps, and they're no longer showing in the picklist of browsers to launch

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dmarmor commented

Hi @jarvisluong & @deafgreatdane,

It's possible you're experiencing a limitation of macOS. On Catalina, the system will only ever list 32 browsers, so if you have more apps than that registered as browsers, it will arbitrarily only show 32 of them. On Big Sur, the limitation has gotten worse and it will only show 24 browsers. If this is the problem, the only solution is to delete (or deregister) some of your apps to bring the number below the limit.

If you don't have that many apps registered as browsers (i.e. if you look at the list in System Preferences->General->Default web browser and its list is shorter than the system limit), then the next thing I'd try is editing one of your apps that isn't showing up as expected. You can do this by dropping it on Epichrome.app. Just go through the dialogs until you get to step 5 ("Register app as a browser?") and make sure the app is currently set to Yes.

Please let me know if this helps you solve the problem. If not, I'll take a look and see if something else is going on.

jarvisluong commented

Hi @jarvisluong & @deafgreatdane,

It's possible you're experiencing a limitation of macOS. On Catalina, the system will only ever list 32 browsers, so if you have more apps than that registered as browsers, it will arbitrarily only show 32 of them. On Big Sur, the limitation has gotten worse and it will only show 24 browsers. If this is the problem, the only solution is to delete (or deregister) some of your apps to bring the number below the limit.

If you don't have that many apps registered as browsers (i.e. if you look at the list in System Preferences->General->Default web browser and its list is shorter than the system limit), then the next thing I'd try is editing one of your apps that isn't showing up as expected. You can do this by dropping it on Epichrome.app. Just go through the dialogs until you get to step 5 ("Register app as a browser?") and make sure the app is currently set to Yes.

Please let me know if this helps you solve the problem. If not, I'll take a look and see if something else is going on.

Hi! Thanks for your reply! Currently I only have 8 browser including the epichrome ones, also I tried to edit the apps (Register as a browser)

dmarmor commented

Are these apps not showing as browsers both while they are running and when they are not running? To test this, you'll need to quit System Preferences, run one of the apps, then load System Preferences->General and look at the Default web browser list. Then quit System Preferences again, quit the app (give it 10 or 15 seconds to be 100% sure it's fully quit) and then load System Preferences->General again and look at the Default web browser list. Let me know if you see any difference. Thanks!

jarvisluong commented

@dmarmor Thank you for some guidance. I tried to move the apps under /Applications/Epichrome/Apps, then run Epichrome scan again. Now the browsers are registered back again!

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flegfleg commented

Hi @jarvisluong, i have the same problems. Also, i am nowhere near the browser limit.

what do you mean by

I tried to move the apps under /Applications/Epichrome/Apps

Thanks!