jimschubert/NewTab-Redirect

Local file is working on chromium based browsers but not on google chrome itself

bilalazhar72 opened this issue · 4 comments

bilalazhar72 commented

i recently tried the extension on thorium browser which is open source , and the extension works fine for redirecting the local file
**Here is the sample screenshot to show that its working **

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If the engine is fine there should be a way for it to work with chrome as well i think this happened after new chrome update . i hope this can help devs and if some one else is looking into it to fix this thanks

hgoodman-ata commented

Local file access no longer works in Chromium or Brave

Vasqs commented

Enable "Allow access to file URLs" on extension details
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hgoodman-ata commented

Woohoo! Really appreciate this, did't realize how central this is to my workflow and I just sent you a donation.

Because it took me a few minutes to find the setting, its in:

menu -> extentsions -> manage extenstions: new tab redirect DETAILS button then the "Allow access to file URLs"

jimschubert commented

Thanks for answering, folks. As part of #218 which required updating the extension to use manifest v3 (they don't allow publishing with v2 anyone) and new changes to chrome, this is an unfortunate side effect.