[Enhancement] Add an option to open Steam Links in the Steam Client.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The links that are currently fetched by Metadata sources always open in a browser since they are your standard URLs. Often times, you're logged into Steam and/or maybe you want to install a Workshop item for a Steam game and to do that, you have to log into steam on the browser. Whereas, if I was able to open steam links in steam, I could easily manage all of that.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow an option to open all Steam links with Steam (a checkbox in the settings).

Describe alternatives you've considered A more powerful tool would be an entirely new 'Reformatting' tab for link where you can modify/morph links.

Ex: https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/ could be morphed via a regex

(.*)steamcommunity.com(.*)

into

steam://openurl/https://steamcommunity.com/$2

Where $2 ($n where n is the matched regex - $1 would be https://) is the 2nd matched regex /app/730/discussions/.

But I think this is way out of scope for this specific ask and is probably an entirely new feature request instead.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

There is a Microsoft Edge extension that does exactly what I recommended in my alternatives called Redirector.

[HerrKnarz]

Hmm, I don't know if it's possible for an extension to change the link once it is clicked. I can add a function to convert already existing links though, and add options to fetch new links directly in the steam app format and also add links to discussions, workshop etc.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

Yea, I think that's ideal. Changing links that currently exist and changing new links automatically would solve this.

Not sure how useful changing links after they're clicked would be, even if possible.

[HerrKnarz]

I added the functionality now. It will be available with the 3.6 release shortly.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

Man, that is awesome. Thank you!