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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Sep 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chrome doesn't recognize chrome:// URLs in right-click context menu

Reported by willieec...@gmail.com, Sep 25 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Select text beginning with "chrome://", like "chrome://about"
2. Right click (or perform equivalent) to show context menu

What is the expected behavior?
Like other links, there should be a menu option that says "Go to <link>" right above the "Print" option.

What went wrong?
Chrome didn't recognize "chrome://about" as a link able to be opened even though it can be copy-pasted into the address bar.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 61.0.3163.100  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 27.0 r0
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M61

Comment 2 by woxxom@gmail.com, Sep 26 2017

Probably intentional, to avoid users being manipulated into changing something on a built-in page with just a few clicks. Or maybe because chrome:// scheme cannot be used in links on a web page. However, selecting and pasting in the address bar is about the same order of complexity, and a context menu is not part of the web page so I see no harm in fixing the current behavior. 
Cc: susanjuniab@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
willieechalmers@ Thanks for the issue.

Tested this issue on Mac OS 10.12.6, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 using the latest Canary 63.0.3223.8 and latest Stable 61.0.3163.100 using the below steps,

1. Launched Chrome and typed chrome://about in omnibox.
2. Selected the URL and right clicked on the context menu and can see the options - Cut, Copy, Paste,Paste and Search, Delete, Select all, Edit Search Engine.
3. Can see the same options on right clicking the different URLs as well.

Please see the attached screen-shots for reference.

Can you please explain what exactly is the issue here or is it a new feature request?
Can you please share the screen-cast for better understanding of the issue.

Thanks..
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Comment 5 by woxxom@gmail.com, Sep 27 2017

#3, the issue is about links in the page:
0. open the attached test.html
1. select chrome://version and right-click it
2. select www.google.com and right click it
Expected: "Go to " + the selected URL is present both in step 1 and 2
Observed: "Go to " + the selected URL is present only in step 2
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Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Yes, as speculated in Comment 2, this is working as intended.
Are there any reasons chrome:// isn't a scheme Chrome recognizes besides possible security concerns? As Comment 2 also said, if a user is being manipulated into changing some Chrome settings, it wouldn't be that much harder to copy and paste the link into the address bar.
 Issue 887929  has been merged into this issue.

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