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"chrome://" still being displayed when editing URL bar

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Description

When editing the URL bar, you’ll still be able to see the chrome:// protocol handler rather than the brave://

Steps to Reproduce

  1. open either dev or beta
  2. visit brave://settings and start editing the URL once the page loads

Actual result:

urlprotocal

Expected result:

Shouldn’t be displaying the chrome:// protocol handler when editing the URL box.

Reproduces how often:

100% reproducible using the above STR.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave 0.55.14 Chromium: 70.0.3538.54 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision 4f8e578b6680574714e9ed3bb9f02922b4dde40d-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#937}
OS Mac OS X

Reproducible on current release:

  • Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds?

Yes, currently reproducible on both dev and beta builds:

Brave 0.56.4 Chromium: 70.0.3538.54 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
Revision 4f8e578b6680574714e9ed3bb9f02922b4dde40d-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#937}
OS Mac OS X
Brave 0.56.4 Chromium: 70.0.3538.54 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
Revision 4f8e578b6680574714e9ed3bb9f02922b4dde40d-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#937}
OS Mac OS X

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Reactions:3
  • Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

3reactions
fmariercommented, Dec 12, 2018
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bscliftoncommented, Jul 9, 2019

~Re-opening as this fix was reverted~ edit: whoops; this WAS fixed- got the wrong issue; meant to grab https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1973

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