Dechromer

A simple browser extensions for chromium based browsers that uses native messaging to redirect any opened tab to the default system browser. Mainly intended (and currently working) for Windows where some links are always opened in Edge instead of in the default browser.

Requires you to install a native OS client and side load the extension in your browser.

Tested on Windows 11 with Chrome and Edge.

Install

1. Clone the repository to a known directory (e.g. C:/dechromer/)
2. Open your Chromium based browser and go to Extensions > Manage Extensions
3. On the extension page enable Developer mode
4. Select Load unpacked and select the /path/to/dechromer/extension folder
5. Copy the generated extension ID
6. In an editor open /path/to/dechromer/host/manifest.json
7. Replace YOUR_EXTENSION_ID with the copied ID from the Browser extension page
8. Run path/to/dechromer/host/install.bat
9. Everything should now function as intended.

Temporarily disable

All links opened in the configured browser will be redirect and the tabs are automatically closed. To (Temporarily) disable the extension: remove the allowed_origins entry from /path/to/dechromer/host/manifest.json.

Reenabling can be done by re-adding the allowed-origins entry.

Uninstall

In your chromium based browser:

1. Navigate to Extensions > Manage Extensions
2. Click remove on the dechromer extension

In your installation folder:

1. run host/uninstall.bat to remove the registry keys.
2. Remove the installation folder (/path/to/dechromer)