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t3dotgg / Chrometana

Redirect Bing Somewhere Better
http://Chrometana.Theo.li
MIT License
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Potential Fix For Cortana Browser Redirection #25

Closed t3dotgg closed 7 years ago

t3dotgg commented 8 years ago

A current user emailed this link to me

https://gitlab.com/valinet/cortana-search-using-default-browser

Looking into it now, perhaps this is our ticket to freedom?

skylize commented 7 years ago

I found an article that promotes your extension even though it won't work standalone. Force Cortana to Use Chrome

The writer offers two solutions to redirect browser opening: EdgeDeflector and SearchWithMyBrowser and suggests Chrometana for url redirection.

I ran EdgeDeflector, pointed Cortana to Chrome, then installed Chrometana. It works perfectly.

I see no reason to abandon Chrometana, as it is still a vital piece of the solution.

t3dotgg commented 7 years ago

Due to the very hack-y nature of all current solutions (involving scripted registry hacks and enabling of deprecated functionality in Windows 10), I'm uncomfortable publicly endorsing most of these things as Chrometana-certified "solutions" to Microsoft's changes.

I am more than willing to maintain Chrometana to make sure it works with these hacks, but I'm now a full time software engineer at Twitch and my priorities are elsewhere

Thank you for bringing these solutions to my attention, I trust you understand the inherent stability and security risks in using them, and as such that you understand why we are not prioritizing development around them

skylize commented 7 years ago

I looked the code for EdgeDeflector. It uses the same technique as Chrometana, but at a different level of the stack. It is a Windows COM service intercepting microsoft-edge: urls and converting them to regular http or https urls so they inherently end up opening your default browser.