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

jimschubert / NewTab-Redirect

NewTab Redirect! is an extension for Google Chrome which allows the user to replace the page displayed when creating a new tab.

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Local file is working on chromium based browsers but not on google chrome itself #222

Closed bilalazhar72 closed 8 months ago

bilalazhar72 commented 9 months ago

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

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 8 months ago

Local file access no longer works in Chromium or Brave

Vasqs commented 8 months ago

Enable "Allow access to file URLs" on extension details Screenshot_20231115_201831-1

hgoodman-ata commented 8 months ago

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 8 months ago

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.