I can confirm this is not resolved. Please prioritize a fix as I cannot
log into Zoom (SSO based login).
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes
Hello,
This bug is not solved at all. After having hit it (xubuntu 21.10, Chromium
96.0.4664.45, snap2.53.2, I still can not open .vmrc URLs.
When looking at the master git repo here :
I'm sorry to say we were forced to move from Chromium to Google Chrome
(unconfined deb package). I am not at all happy with that, as our software is
now less secure than it was before (with the unconfined Chromium). But I never
managed to get the snap running for my users, snaps are just not
Snapd got some extra url handlers added to the whitelist but still not
some of those described in the description and comments (irc, ssh, git)
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs,
I recently installed Xubuntu 20.04 and I fail to open magnet links via
qBittorrent (installed via apt-get, v4.1.7) :
> snap --version
snap2.48.1
snapd 2.48.1
series 16
ubuntu 20.04
kernel 5.4.0-58-generic
Using xdg-open it goes well, so seems like the bug discussed here.
--
You
Fixed for me and i'm on 2.42 Eoan. Dialog appears to choose the app to
open.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
To
Snap 2.45.1 is out now and solves this -- I believe the issue can be
marked fixed released.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some
@akkzilla is right, this is more like a problem of general
intercommunication of snaps. It probably needs a decent framework for
snaps as a whole, not only the chromium snap.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
Snaps do have that concept of plugs and sockets. Shouldn't that be the
way of solving this?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some
I'm puzzled by all the people tying this to chromium for zoom. I use
firefox and it doesn't work any better there, especially with the zoom-
client from snap where it doesn't work at all.
Using the snap zoom-client, typing xdg-open
'zoommtg://zoom.us/join?action=join&... (using URL I got by
Just tested it too, magnet links work for me as well! Thanks
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
To manage
Magnet links are working.
I just tried opening it in Chromium snap and I got the "xdg-open" prompt
and than a window with selection between qBittorrent and Transmission. I
selected qBittorrent and it opened the magnet link.
$ snap version
snap2.45
snapd 2.45
series 16
ubuntu 20.04
MS teams & magnet: links both just throw up a "xdg-open" prompt but nothing
happens when you "allow".
This should be fixed and released now, right ?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
Nevermind my last comment. This works in chromium (no idea about snapd).
To get this to work in chromium, first make sure it works for xdg-open.
Click on the link that you want to be opened automatically in some
application. When it downloaded, right-click on it (the button that
appeared on the
I am also affected by this horrible show stopper bug.
Using Arch Linux and chromium browser. Seeing that this has been reported 8
months ago and the severity is set to "undecided" for chromium, it is clear
that I'll have to start to use a different browser. This saddens me a lot :(
--
You
Hi @jean-helou,
The comment you see was referencing this PR:
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8289 which unfortunately did not
end up making it into 2.44, however I have confirmed that it is in 2.45,
which should be released soon. If you would like to test out those
changes, please install
I am happy to see zoom supported, but I can't help being disapointed
that slack, vscode, irc, magnet etc still arent. I found this
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8398#issuecomment-607570865
comment on a PR to add slack which seems to hint that the situation
would be resolve in snapd 2.44.2
Hi folks, the change that @osomon referenced is available in the snapd
snap beta channel, can you try the following to see if you are able to
open zoom links from the chromium snap now:
```
snap install snapd --beta || snap refresh snapd --beta
```
I tested this on Ubuntu 20.04 and snapd 2.44.5
Support for the zoommtg:// protocol was added to snapd with
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/7f678b923c2af8d899bdb2ba95440d62c1c74123.
The core snap from the edge channel (2.45~pre1+git1800.7238107) doesn't
seem to have the fix yet, though.
--
You received this bug notification because
I also encouter this problem. Each time someone share a zoom link,
chronium cannot open it.
This is kind of annoying since it is happenning all day long at each
meeting.
I'm thinking about using a different browser just because this bug does
not seem importantenough to be solved.
I hope someone
Well, you have the Code of Conduct, and we do not have normal software
that would not break user systems. Is there any correlation here we
cannot discuss because of the Code of Conduct.
I am very sorry that my rudeness upset such unique snowflakes as the
snap team.
The problem is described two
Jusr wanted to comment on Samuele Pedroni referring to "rudeness" – then
I saw that Balazs Gyurak already did: Yes, I saw the comment that has
subsequently been removed from this forum post, and Samuele was
completely right to object. Please remove this part of your article.
--
You received this
Seeing that this bug got considerable attention, I'd like to highlight another
bug that is even more serious (in my opinion) which relates to Chromium being
snap:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1741074
This other bug affects more people, breaks numerous apps
Sven, allow me to contribute a few corrections/clarifications to your
article:
« but as they use Chromium (the pre-installed open source version of the
Google Chrome browser) »
This is incorrect, chromium is not pre-installed. One has to go and
install it from the package manager/software store.
Hi Sven Meyer,
I'd like to address one bit of your article:
"... and I do not understand the reaction - Samuele Pedroni (pedronis)
wrote on 2020-04-23: "Contributing to the discussion with rudeness is
not conductive to collaboration, and will be moderated.""
The reason for Samuele's comment was
(I just wrote an article about this issue. Feel free to comment before I
publish it.)
# Ubutu 20.04 was just released and is broken right from the start (as
is 19.10)
Millions of people have started working from home and may have even done
a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, but as they use
@Gilyen: Yes, of course -- or open the link in Firefox. But that gets
really annoying after a while. I was hoping for a snap package that
fixes this without me having to build from source. Because if I'm going
to go that far, I'll just remove the damh hard-coded whitelist
completely. It's one
This bug also affects me on a fresh 20.04 install ...
To Jacob: You can just copy the link, by right clicking the "join meeting"
button, then open a terminal and type
$ xdg-open "zoommtg://...[your meeting link]..."
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs,
Is there a way to get a snapd package with the merged PR for zoommtg://
without recompiling from source?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes
Seriously guys, I mean why the heck would you replace something that
works like a charm (normal apt, .deb files or PPAs) with something
that's still obviously not ready to be thrown at people's machines
forcing them to use snaps instead of regular .deb. you don't even leave
the user the choice of
In short, the best way to improve the situaition is sudo apt purge
snapd.
Does snapd solve any user's problem? No one. Does it break usual apps
behavior? Absolutely, as in this case.
Why I should to PR for repairing things that works perfectly for years
in any desktop behavior before you came?
With respect, I think focusing on an improved response time for the PRs
is missing the forest for the trees.
The vast majority of users that experience these bugs won't be the ones
to make Ubuntu SSO & GitHub accounts and contribute PRs to fix it.
They're just going to get a silent launch
FYI, in recent PR discussions[1] we've acknowledged that we should make
it easier to allow different URL schemes into snapd and I laid out some
criteria/process ideas on how to make this happen, and I applied that
criteria to the zoommtg PR and it was merged quickly. I discussed with
Samuele that
Contributing to the discussion with rudeness is not conductive to
collaboration, and will be moderated.
We do take the fact that people are recompiling snapd because of this as
a signal that we need to think whether there are possible ways we can
improve the situation.
** Changed in: snapd
There is no one objective reason to whitelisting link schemes for
applications.
Usual URLs worked well for years for iteract between apps, but here you
brought the fucking snap, which doesn’t improve anything, but also
breaks the normal behavior of other applications.
Please bring back the
And then people are surprised why Linux community is no negative to
Snap.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
To
This also affects the scheme "jetbrains", it would be nice to login to
my JetBrains Toolbox again via Chromium
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted
To @kfunk @axet @troyready: That worked perfectly for me. Thank you so
much!!!
For those like me for whom these are all magical incantations, here's my
sequence aggregated from advice above:
Press the Ubuntu/Super key and type "Software" and pick the one that is
called "Software & Updates". On
@cpbl see https://askubuntu.com/a/158872 ("Software & Updates" in the
menu now)
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
wow, @kfunk and @axet, thank you so much for this effort!
Alas, I get stuck at the very first step:
sudo apt-get build-dep snapd
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs,
I just found the issue second ago. It is related to SNAP_REEXEC
behavior. The idea is to run snap from snap_core installed from snap. If
you have system snap installed it will be reexec'd from snap core. To
disable it you need to change the source.
Just run this before compilation and you will be
Alexey I'm having the same experience as you. It's uncanny, feels like
something obvious is missing. Not sure how it's working for Kevin above.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Seems like a new linux virus preventing me from running compiled snap.
Not the right place to report but who knows? When I recompile the snap
package and changed "help" output to "refresh !!! and remove snaps" and
unpack the content of resulting file into 123/. I reinstall the system
package and
For some reason I unable to rebuild snapd following #29 instruction. All
goes fine, but in the end xdg-open wont work. I've checked
/var/log/syslog and it full of:
chromium_chromium.desktop[1674]: user-open error: Supplied URL scheme
"magnet" is not allowed
What is interesting, when I'm changing
Okay, after having manually copied and dissected a Zoom URL for the Xth
time I finally got annoyed.
I've updated the instructions from comment #27, here's a possible work-
around by rebuilding the snapd sources:
```
apt-get build-dep snapd
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
cd $TMPDIR
apt-get -y source snapd
Also affecting Slack. Not possible to login to Slack app and I needed to
switch to Firefox for now.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks
Can anyone help with a workaround suggestion while we're waiting for
this to get fixed?
I normally manually patch package issues like this, but for some reason
it doesn't seem to be working in this case:
```
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
cd $TMPDIR
apt-get -y source snapd
sed -i 's/"http", "https",
I agree @cpbl -- there are almost certainly better options available.
Maciej Borzecki detailed a good proposal at
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7731#issuecomment-585721100 (with
some follow-on thoughts added by jdstrand at
Yeah, this can be labelled a COVID-relevant bug, since there are
countless new users flooding to Zoom, etc...
It looks like this is being worked on within the last four days:
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8304
But only for zoom?!
And I'm not sure of the nature of the fix or who would
If the approach so far is to individually whitelist classes of links,
surely can't this be better dealt with by doing something similar to how
Chromium responds to me clicking on a downloaded file: it asks me if
it's okay to have snap launch that file? Can't we do this for links
that go to
Hate to be another +1 but, any updates on this. This is quite a major
issue for real world use right now.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes
any updates on this, manual url interception and copy pasting is getting
old :(
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Please add the vmrc URL scheme, needed by VMWare ESXi. Thanks.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
To manage
i'm sure an easier workaround is to (temporarily) use firefox for this.
i use this one when i need to open some tg:// links in telegram app
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
How I managed to work around this to add a new Slack workspace:
* Click the + button in the desktop app. This opens
https://app.slack.com/ssb/add?… in Chromium.
* Press F12 to get the Network tab. Make sure *Preserve Log* is checked.
* Type in the workspace URL and hit Enter.
* When prompted to
@zyga Why this isn't a high pro bug? Many application uses xdg-open to
it's login function. I couldn't login e.g in : Slack, Intellij-toolbox
so this is instantly breaking the ability to use this snap in a work
environment.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Zoom.us meeting links (zoomus://) are not launching the app anymore.
This reduces drastically the productivity, since I have to manually copy
the meeting ID into the Zoom app. Multiply that with about 10 meetings a
day and it results in moving to Firefox.
--
You received this bug notification
This is personally impacting my ability to use Chromium to run the F5
SSL VPN, which uses the f5-epi and f5-vpn schemes.
There needs to be a way for individual users to add to the whitelist.
Adding more schemes like "apt" is just making the issue less painful.
--
You received this bug
As I said earlier I totally agree with the comment above :
Manual whitelisting from the snap team will always be a blocker for such
a widely adopted use of an important browser.
That will push people to use chrome which IMO a failure on the libre
software side.
--
You received this bug
Agreed. This seems like fundamental desktop functionality to me.
My approach so far is to right click on the link, copy it, and then in a
terminal type
xdg-open ""
where is the pasted link.
In case it's useful, here's an updated list from above, but clearly there
should be a way for people
Wow. This is all remarkably chill for a bug that boils down to "Chrome
can't launch external apps". I just started a new job and I'm trying to
set up ubuntu 19.10 as my primary desktop and I'm being blocked by this.
Both slack and zoom fail to launch because of this. It also means that
apps
Hi! This bug also affects me. Magnet torrent links don't work at all.
Could we have an update on this please?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted
Sorry for the +1 comment here, but can we revisit the severity of this?
20.04 is coming and it's a notable feature regression for chromium-
browser.
I really like this idea for fixing it:
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7731#issuecomment-585721100
--
You received this bug notification
>From another report on the snapcraft forum, another custom scheme: urn
(https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/chromium-user-open-error-supplied-url-
scheme-is-not-allowed/15429)
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
** Also affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873
Title:
Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop
66 matches
Mail list logo
