How to prevent popping-up xdg-open dialogue from Ubuntu chrome while opening specific link?

Question

I am trying to join a whatsapp group using desktop web whatsapp (chrome, ubuntu). When I click on Join Group, It shows dialogue below.I want to remove this dialogue forever from chrome. I can join the group by clicking again on join the group after dismissing the xdg-open dialogue.

I tried Reset chrome protocol_handler chrome with no luck.

I also tried to dismiss the dialogue using python selenium with no luck using below code.

               try:

                    WebDriverWait(browser, 3).until(EC.alert_is_present(),
                           'Timed out waiting for PA creation ' +
                           'confirmation popup to appear.')
                    #if it doe
                    alert = browser.switch_to.alert()
                    alert.accept()
                    print "alert accepted"
                except TimeoutException:
                    print "no alert"
                    pass

Is there a way to dismiss the dialogue using python selenium or using some configuration file changes in chrome installation ?

Did you tyr https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41400934/handle-notifications-in-python-selenium-chrome-webdriver ? — Guy, Aug 23 '18 at 13:32
Checkout this discussion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51555208/how-to-handle-browser-notification-popup-which-is-without-any-elements — undetected Selenium, Aug 23 '18 at 15:07
This worked for me. https://community.shotgunsoftware.com/t/how-to-fix-chrome-protocol-handler-always-open-these-types-of-links-pop-up-when-opening-rv-through-rvlink/4306 — Alfredo Diaz, Mar 18 '20 at 06:27

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 16 '20 at 20:22

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This solution works on Google Chrome 84.0.4147.89, for specific types of xdg links. For example, if the link in question is whatsapp://someurl, you can use:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/ && echo '{ "URLWhitelist": ["whatsapp://*"] }' |sudo tee /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/whitelist.json

answered Jul 16 '20 at 20:22

Eyal

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UPD: they renamed `URLWhitelist`/`whitelist.json` to `URLAllowlist`/`allowlist.json`, and the same for blacklist→blocklist. – cornholio Jul 28 '22 at 01:02

wizawu · Answer 2 · 2021-01-05T05:19:46.243

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Here is the official documentation (https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7532419) on how to do it.

@Eyal's answer is pretty close. Instead you should set the URLBlocklist field.

sudo mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed
cd /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed
jq -n '.URLBlocklist=["whatsapp://*"]' | sudo tee blocklist.json

edited Jan 05 '21 at 05:19

answered Oct 26 '20 at 13:50

wizawu

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“ssh” links are blocked - wtf? the question was "how to remove poup" without blocking app. – Sergey Nov 17 '22 at 11:41

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '21 at 21:02

This worked out for me... go to .local/share/applications/ create a file .. say whatsapp.desktop with the following info

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Whatsapp Scheme Handler
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %u
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/whatsapp;

then registry the scheme handler with the following command

     xdg-mime default whatsapp.desktop x-scheme-handler/whatsapp

How to prevent popping-up xdg-open dialogue from Ubuntu chrome while opening specific link?

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